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Nuctenea
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Nuctenea

Nuctenea is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895. Its most familiar member is the Walnut Orb-Weaver Spider, N. umbratica.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Walnut Orbweaver

speciesNuctenea umbratica

Nuctenea silvicultrix

speciesNuctenea silvicultrix

Nuctenea cedrorum

speciesNuctenea cedrorum

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 130094.