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title: "Orange-and-black Pear Spider"
description: "Leucauge fastigata — Insects & spiders. Leucauge fastigata, the pear-shaped leucauge, is a species of spiders in the family Tetragnathidae (long-jawed orb weavers)."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/orange-and-black-pear-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Orange-and-black Pear Spider

> Leucauge fastigata — Insects & spiders. Leucauge fastigata, the pear-shaped leucauge, is a species of spiders in the family Tetragnathidae (long-jawed orb weavers).

- Scientific name: *Leucauge fastigata*
- Category: `insects` (Insects & spiders)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 3547
- iNaturalist taxon: [1348317](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1348317)

## Names

- en: Orange-and-black Pear Spider

## Countries with the most observations

IN (960), PH (519), ID (380), TH (357), SG (341), MY (123), LK (87), VN (37), GU (32), KH (21), MP (18), CN (17)

## Summary

Leucauge fastigata, the pear-shaped leucauge, is a species of spiders in the family Tetragnathidae (long-jawed orb weavers). Its native range extends from India to the Philippines and Sulawesi.
Members of the species have silvery or golden spots on the abdomen. They are elongated spiders with long legs and chelicerae.
They are orb web weavers, weaving small orb webs with an open hub and few, wide-set radii and spirals. The webs have no signal line and no retreat. The web is a large horizontally-placed orb structure with a diameter of more than a metre. The entire web is often suspended by several long strands of silk…

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

## Photo

![Orange-and-black Pear Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/orange-and-black-pear-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: lovelymon lamin · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/41744637

## Machine access

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