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Insulana Garbage-line Web Spider

Cyclosa insulana

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) budak, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Spain.January 2, February 8, March 9, April 16, May 28, June 22, July 20, August 20, September 33, October 19, November 5, December 1.
Spain183
South Africa126
Western Cape91
Cataluña/Catalunya66
Portugal54
Andalucía44
Canarias34
Indonesia34
Italy31
Thailand24

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

  • CarnivoreEats other animals or animal-derived prey as a major part of its diet.Inferred from its group

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Practical

  • VenomousProduces venom for defense or huntingFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • PredatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly hunt other animals.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassArachnids · Arachnida
OrderSpiders · Araneae
FamilyOrbweavers · Araneidae
GenusTrashline Orbweavers · Cyclosa

Sources

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Practise Insulana Garbage-line Web Spider with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.