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title: "Dome Web Spider"
description: "Cyrtophora moluccensis — Insetti e ragni. Cyrtophora moluccensis is a tent-web spider in the orb-weaver family."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/dome-web-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Dome Web Spider

> Cyrtophora moluccensis — Insetti e ragni. Cyrtophora moluccensis is a tent-web spider in the orb-weaver family.

- Scientific name: *Cyrtophora moluccensis*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta), `urban` (Città e giardini)
- iNaturalist observations: 4631
- Wikidata: [Q1309686](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1309686)
- iNaturalist taxon: [120520](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/120520)

## Names

- en: Dome Web Spider

## Countries with the most observations

AU (1692), TW (599), ID (251), SG (120), NC (115), GU (90), TH (89), HK (82), IN (24), FJ (22), NF (21), MP (18)

## Summary

Cyrtophora moluccensis is a tent-web spider in the orb-weaver family. It is commonly known as the tent spider or dome-web spider, and is native to India, Japan, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Fiji, and Tonga. It is often found in disturbed or open habitats from coasts to forest and mountainous interiors.
The abdomen is high and the anterior end overhangs the cephalothorax. It can be distinguished from similar species by the two tubercles on its abdomen, its elaborate pattern, and, in females, the shape of the median septum of the epigyne. In males, the embolus of the pedipalp is enclosed within the conductor…

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

## Photo

![Dome Web Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/dome-web-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Richard Fuller · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/196113945

## Machine access

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