Four-spot orb-weaver

Araneus quadratus
Orb-weaver spiders (Araneidae)

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Round spider with a light brown small front body with a dark vertical line. The legs are striped. The rear is, specifically for the ♀ round shaped, variable in colour white, green, orange-red or brown but always with a white marking shaped like a cross with 2 cross beams.

Makes a circular web close to the surface with a dome-shaped hideaway from where it detects if prey has entered the web. The prey gets wrapped and taken to this hideaway.

⇔ l. 7-19 mm

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