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title: "Brown Sailor Spider"
description: "Neoscona nautica — Insectes et araignées. Neoscona nautica, the brown sailor spider, is a species of orb weaver in the family Araneidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/fr/animal/brown-sailor-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Brown Sailor Spider

> Neoscona nautica — Insectes et araignées. Neoscona nautica, the brown sailor spider, is a species of orb weaver in the family Araneidae.

- Scientific name: *Neoscona nautica*
- Category: `insects` (Insectes et araignées)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 2125
- Wikidata: [Q1058796](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1058796)
- iNaturalist taxon: [263658](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/263658)

## Names

- en: Brown Sailor Spider
- es: Araña marinera marrón

## Countries with the most observations

US (125), IN (95), BR (94), CO (58), EC (42), JP (33), PA (31), PH (24), KR (22), CN (18), PE (18), NI (16)

## Summary

Neoscona nautica, the brown sailor spider, is a species of orb weaver in the family Araneidae. Found in Asia and the Pacific islands, it has been introduced into both Americas, and the Sudan.

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

## Photo

![Brown Sailor Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/brown-sailor-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Yasunori Yamamoto · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/247865241

## Machine access

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