Leucauge tessellata
Leucauge tessellata looks so much like its relative Leucauge celebesiana that the two are often found together, and are told apart by dense black hairs on the female's hind legs.
| Where | Forest from lowland to mid elevation |
|---|---|
| Size | Female 9 to 11 mm, male 6 to 8 mm body length |
| When | January to December |
This spider closely resembles Leucauge celebesiana in size, shape and general colouring, but females carry dense, long black hairs over the outer two thirds of the fourth pair of legs, a feature the similar species lacks.
It lives in forest at a range of elevations from lowland to over a thousand metres, across India, China, Taiwan and other parts of East and South Asia, and is most often noticed during the rainy season.
Traits
Habitat
Woodland
Colour
White, Green, Black
Active
Day and night
To people
This spider is not known to bite people and is easily overlooked among vegetation near its more common relative, the black-striped orchard spider.
Activity through the year
Often confused with
Nearly identical in size and colour, but lacking the dense black hairs on the female's hind leg pair, and showing a bold black stripe down the middle of the abdomen that Leucauge tessellata lacks.
Questions
Is Leucauge tessellata dangerous to people?
This spider is not known to bite people and is easily overlooked among vegetation near its more common relative, the black-striped orchard spider.
When can you see Leucauge tessellata?
Leucauge tessellata can be seen from January to December, by day and at night.
Plate retouched from a photo by Dmitry Ivanov, CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist Licence
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