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title: "Cricket-bat Orbweaver"
description: "Mangora acalypha — Insetti e ragni. Mangora acalypha, also known by its common name cricket-bat orbweaver, is a species of spider in the family Araneidae, found throughout the Palearctic realm."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/cricket-bat-orbweaver
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Cricket-bat Orbweaver

> Mangora acalypha — Insetti e ragni. Mangora acalypha, also known by its common name cricket-bat orbweaver, is a species of spider in the family Araneidae, found throughout the Palearctic realm.

- Scientific name: *Mangora acalypha*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 16567
- Wikidata: [Q597490](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q597490)
- iNaturalist taxon: [319548](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/319548)

## Names

- en: Cricket-bat Orbweaver
- de: Streifenkreuzspinne
- fr: Mangore petite-bouteille
- nl: Driestreepspin

## Countries with the most observations

FR (3886), DE (1881), ES (1791), IT (1258), GB (1104), PT (912), RU (726), AT (612), UA (406), PL (381), DK (272), BE (225)

## Summary

Mangora acalypha, also known by its common name cricket-bat orbweaver, is a species of spider in the family Araneidae, found throughout the Palearctic realm. This species was originally described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1802 as Aranea acalypha.

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

## Photo

![Cricket-bat Orbweaver](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/cricket-bat-orbweaver/medium.jpg)

Photo: Christian Müllner · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/218614822

## Machine access

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