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title: "Green Orbweb Spider"
description: "Colaranea viriditas — Insects & spiders. Colaranea viriditas is a species of orb-weaver spider that is endemic to New Zealand."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/green-orbweb-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Green Orbweb Spider

> Colaranea viriditas — Insects & spiders. Colaranea viriditas is a species of orb-weaver spider that is endemic to New Zealand.

- Scientific name: *Colaranea viriditas*
- Category: `insects` (Insects & spiders)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 1082
- Wikidata: [Q2688359](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2688359)
- iNaturalist taxon: [199273](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/199273)

## Names

- en: Green Orbweb Spider

## Countries with the most observations

NZ (1044)

## Summary

Colaranea viriditas is a species of orb-weaver spider that is endemic to New Zealand.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colaranea_viriditas

## Photo

![Green Orbweb Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/green-orbweb-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Callum Mclean · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/109120656

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/green-orbweb-spider?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).