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title: "Giant Golden Orbweaver"
description: "Nephila pilipes — Insetti e ragni. Nephila pilipes (northern golden orb weaver or giant golden orb weaver) is a species of golden orb-web spider."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/giant-golden-orbweaver
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Giant Golden Orbweaver

> Nephila pilipes — Insetti e ragni. Nephila pilipes (northern golden orb weaver or giant golden orb weaver) is a species of golden orb-web spider.

- Scientific name: *Nephila pilipes*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta), `urban` (Città e giardini)
- iNaturalist observations: 43355
- Wikidata: [Q286128](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q286128)
- iNaturalist taxon: [68390](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/68390)

## Names

- en: Giant Golden Orbweaver
- es: Araña Seda de Oro Gigante
- pl: Prządka olbrzymia

## Countries with the most observations

TW (8993), HK (5551), IN (5499), AU (5487), TH (3125), ID (2929), SG (2409), CN (1194), MY (1165), PH (786), JP (598), LK (544)

## Summary

Nephila pilipes (northern golden orb weaver or giant golden orb weaver) is a species of golden orb-web spider. It resides all over countries in East and Southeast Asia as well as Oceania. It is commonly found in forests and coastal areas, near surface water, and against buildings and other terrain structures. Adult females are very large, with a body length of 25 to 50 mm (1 to 2 inches). Males are dwarfs, measuring only 4 to 6 mm (about 0.2 inch).  It is the second largest of the orb-weaving spiders apart from the recently discovered Nephila komaci. The first, second, and fourth pairs of legs of juvenile females…

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

## Photo

![Giant Golden Orbweaver](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/giant-golden-orbweaver/medium.jpg)

Photo: Vijay Barve · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/40983985

## Machine access

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