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Cucumber Green Spider

Araniella cucurbitina

6,201 observations in the source records

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What the records say

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 176, February 130, March 203, April 320, May 461, June 502, July 538, August 462, September 339, October 253, November 138, December 108.
United States3,634
Alaska3,631
United Kingdom223
England182
Germany59
France52
Italy46
Austria44
Russia38
Spain33

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
GenusCucumber Spiders · Araniella

Sources

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