Giant Golden Orb-Weaving Spider at Noosa National Park
Identification history
| Nephila pilipes | 8 Jan 2025 | EathanDouglas | ||
| Nephila sp. (genus) | 7 Jan 2025 | NateKingsford | ||
| Unidentified | 3 May 2019 | AaronClausen |
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2 comments
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
24 Jul 2019
Possibly Nephila pilipes, Giant Golden Orb-Weaving Spider:
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:5dab5bfe-ba2f-4543-b698-02a14697fe53
Definitely a Nephila species.
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:5dab5bfe-ba2f-4543-b698-02a14697fe53
Definitely a Nephila species.
EathanDouglas
wrote:
8 Jan 2025
Nephila pilipes will be the only Nephila species in Australia, Trichonephila plumipes & Nephila plumipes are both listed on Naturemapr but they're Synonymous & Trichonephila gets priority. :)
Location information
- Coordinates 153.107770-26.384921
- Altitude 32.2m
- Maps Noosa National Park
- Places Noosa Heads, QLD
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 19 Aug 2016 01:39 PM Recorded on
- AaronClausen Recorded by
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Collections
AaronClausen Orb-weaving spiders (several families) Spiders Greater Brisbane NatureMapr
Additional information
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
Species information
- Nephila pilipes Scientific name
- Giant Golden Orb-Weaving Spider Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 32.2m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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