Common Two-horned Orb Weaver
In both sexes, the front view of the cephalothorax is flat, with the AME and PME forming a quadrangle in the centre and the ALE and PLE at the sides, located near to a pair of orange or yellow tubercles. The carapace is typically clothed with long, fine white or yellow hairs on the lateral edges. The abdomen is almost triangular in dorsal view, with a pair of pointed shoulder horns which are conspicuous in the females and less so in the males. The abdominal pattern varies considerably among individuals.
| Length | ♀ 18–26 mm; ♂ 3 mm. |
| Habitat | Gardens, village grounds, wasteland. |
| Biology | At night, the spider builds a large vertical orb with widely spaced mesh and sits on an open hub. It hides underneath a leaf in vegetation nearby during the day. When disturbed, it will drop to the ground and "play dead", with legs retracted close to the body. |
| Type Locality | Java, Indonesia. |
| Distribution | Widespread, including Singapore, Australia, Japan, India, China, Philippines, Laos, Myanmar, Brunei, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Papua, Maluku), Malaysia (Selangor, Sabah). |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Suborder Araneomorphae (Typical Spiders)
Syntype(s)
Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany; 1♀ (3219-117) of Aranea dehaani pygituberculata (Nentwig et al., 2019)
Syntype(s)
Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany; 1♀ (3220-117) of Aranea dehaani quadripunctigera (Nentwig et al., 2019)
Epeira bogoriensis (Original description ♀)
Doleschall, 1859 Tweede Bijdrage tot de kennis der Arachniden van den Indischen Archipel: 35, pl. 11, f. 7
Epeira caputlupi (♀)
van Hasselt, 1877 Araneae exoticae, quas quondam in India Orientali (praesertim Insula Amboina) collegit Cel: 52, pl. 4, f. A
Epeira kandarensis (Original description ♀)
Epeira dehaani
Epeira submucronata (Original description ♀)
Simon, 1887i Etude sur les arachnides de l'Asie méridionale faisant partie des collections de l'Indian Museum (Calcutta): 106
Epeira caestata (Original description ♂)
Araneus caputlupi
Pocock, 1897c Spinnen (Araneae): 599, pl
Araneus dehaani
Araneus dehaani (♀)
Pocock, 1900a The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Arachnida: 225, f. 72 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.48423
Araneus submucronatus
Simon, 1901k On the Arachnida collected during the Skeat expedition to the Malay Peninsula: 59 doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1901.tb08164.x
Aranea dehaanii pygituberculata (Original description ♀)
Strand, 1911b Vorläufige Diagnosen neuer Spinnen, insbesondere aus der Südsee, des Senckenbergischen Museums: 203
Aranea dehaanii quadripunctigera (Original description ♀)
Aranea dehaani (♀)
Roewer, 1938 Araneae: 38, f. 26
Araneus dehaani (♀, Synonym of Araneus caputlupi)
Chrysanthus, 1960 Spiders from south New Guinea III: 31, f. 24-31
Araneus dehaanii (♀)
Tikader & Biswas, 1981 Spider fauna of Calcutta and vicinity: Part-I: 21, f. 19-21
Parawixia dehaanii (T♂♀ from Araneus)
Tikader, 1982a Part 1: 212, f. 414-418
Araneus dehaani (♀)
Feng, 1990 Spiders of China in colour: 55, f. 30.1-4
Araneus dehaani (♀)
Chen & Gao, 1990 The Sichuan farmland spiders in China: 44, f. 46
Parawixia dehaani (♀)
Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 Riceland spiders of South and Southeast Asia: 582, f. 362a-e
Araneus dehaanii (♂♀)
Yin et al., 1997d Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae: 133, f. 48a-i
Parawixia dehaani (♂♀)
Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999 The spiders of China: 302, f. 182E-I
Araneus dehaani (♂♀)
Yin et al., 2012 Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China: 602, f. 290a-h
Parawixia dehaani (♀)
Sen et al., 2015 Spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of reserve forests of Dooars: Gorumara National Park, Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary and Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary: 119, f. 743-747, pl. 23
Parawixia dehaani (♀)
Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2017 On the araneid fauna (Araneae: Araneidae) of the tea estates of Dooars, West Bengal, India: 22, f. 127-131, 190
Parawixia dehaani (♂♀)
Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2017a A new record of the orb-weaving spider genus Parawixia F: 115, f. 1a-g
Parawixia dehaani (Synonym of Parawixia dehaani pygituberculata and P. dehaani quadripunctigera)
Nentwig et al., 2019 Tackling taxonomic redundancy in spiders: the infraspecific spider taxa described by Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae): 34 doi:10.30963/aramit5809
Parawixia dehaani (♀)
Caleb, 2020b Spider (Arachnida: Araneae) fauna of the scrub jungle in the Madras Christian College campus, Chennai, India: 15718, f. 3J-L, 25D doi:10.11609/jott.5758.12.7.15711-15766
Widespread, including Singapore, Australia, Japan, India, China, Philippines, Laos, Myanmar, Brunei, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Papua, Maluku), Malaysia (Selangor, Sabah).