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title: "Common Garden Orbweb Spider"
description: "Argiope australis — Insectes et araignées. Argiope australis, the common garden orb web spider, is an orb-web spider (family Araneidae) found in eastern sub-Saharan Africa."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/fr/animal/common-garden-orbweb-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Common Garden Orbweb Spider

> Argiope australis — Insectes et araignées. Argiope australis, the common garden orb web spider, is an orb-web spider (family Araneidae) found in eastern sub-Saharan Africa.

- Scientific name: *Argiope australis*
- Category: `insects` (Insectes et araignées)
- Habitats: `urban` (Villes et jardins)
- iNaturalist observations: 2810
- Wikidata: [Q2610693](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2610693)
- iNaturalist taxon: [70064](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/70064)

## Names

- en: Common Garden Orbweb Spider

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (2127), NA (77), BW (67), MZ (47), ZW (43), TZ (25), ZM (25), KE (24), SZ (14), MW (13), SN (12), AO (6)

## Summary

Argiope australis, the common garden orb web spider, is an orb-web spider (family Araneidae) found in eastern sub-Saharan Africa.

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

## Photo

![Common Garden Orbweb Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/common-garden-orbweb-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Kelly Abram · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/104716340

## Machine access

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