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Golden Orbweavers
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Golden Orbweavers

Nephilidae

Nephilidae is a spider family commonly referred to as golden orb-weavers. The various genera in Nephilidae were formerly placed in Tetragnathidae and Araneidae. All nephilid genera partially renew their webs.

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7 branches of this family, most-observed first

Banded Orbweavers

genusTrichonephila

Giant Wood Spiders

genusNephila

Hermit Spiders

genusNephilingis

Eunuch Spiders

genusNephilengys

Coin Spiders

genusHerennia

Tree Nephilas

genusClitaetra

Indoetra

genusIndoetra

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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 1492653.