genus
Banded Orbweavers
Trichonephila
Field notes
Trichonephila is a genus of golden orb-weaver spiders that was first described by Friedrich Dahl in 1911, as a subgenus of Nephila. Trichonephila was elevated to a genus by Kuntner et al. in 2019.
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Range
Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided
Most observed native banded orbweavers All
Native to the US, by observations.