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title: "African Social Spider"
description: "Stegodyphus dumicola — Owady i pająki. Stegodyphus dumicola, commonly known as the African social spider, is a species of spider of the family Eresidae, or the velvet spider family."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/african-social-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# African Social Spider

> Stegodyphus dumicola — Owady i pająki. Stegodyphus dumicola, commonly known as the African social spider, is a species of spider of the family Eresidae, or the velvet spider family.

- Scientific name: *Stegodyphus dumicola*
- Category: `insects` (Owady i pająki)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 821
- Wikidata: [Q2420130](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2420130)
- iNaturalist taxon: [415113](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/415113)

## Names

- en: African Social Spider

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (387), NA (56), ZW (16), BW (15)

## Summary

Stegodyphus dumicola, commonly known as the African social spider, is a species of spider of the family Eresidae, or the velvet spider family. It is native to Central and southern Africa.
This spider is one of three Stegodyphus spiders that lives a social lifestyle (S. lineatus, S. mimosarum, and S. dumicola). This spider has been studied living in large natal colonies (ranging from tens to hundreds of highly related spiders) in large, unkempt webs. Each colony is composed mainly of females, where a minority (forty percent) act as reproducers, and a majority (sixty percent) remain childless and take care of the young…

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

## Photo

![African Social Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/african-social-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Nogga_Eugene · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/204702923

## Machine access

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