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title: "Zilla Orbweaver"
description: "Zilla diodia — Insects & spiders. Zilla diodia is an orb-weaver spider species found from Europe to Azerbaijan."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/zilla-orbweaver
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Zilla Orbweaver

> Zilla diodia — Insects & spiders. Zilla diodia is an orb-weaver spider species found from Europe to Azerbaijan.

- Scientific name: *Zilla diodia*
- Category: `insects` (Insects & spiders)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 6370
- Wikidata: [Q203090](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q203090)
- iNaturalist taxon: [486472](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/486472)

## Names

- en: Zilla Orbweaver
- de: Maskenspinne
- fr: Diodie tête de mort
- nl: Struikwielspin

## Countries with the most observations

FR (1729), IT (686), GB (590), DE (528), ES (434), AT (353), BE (174), PT (170), PL (153), NL (144), HU (128), GR (114)

## Summary

Zilla diodia is an orb-weaver spider species found from Europe to Azerbaijan. This species was originally described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1802 as Aranea diodia.

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

## Photo

![Zilla Orbweaver](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/zilla-orbweaver/medium.jpg)

Photo: Stephen Gasson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/229209165

## Machine access

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