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title: "Bush Spider"
description: "Cambridgea foliata — Owady i pająki. Cambridgea foliata, commonly known as the New Zealand sheet-web spider, is a species of spider in the family Desidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/bush-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Bush Spider

> Cambridgea foliata — Owady i pająki. Cambridgea foliata, commonly known as the New Zealand sheet-web spider, is a species of spider in the family Desidae.

- Scientific name: *Cambridgea foliata*
- Category: `insects` (Owady i pająki)
- Habitats: `forest` (Las)
- iNaturalist observations: 934
- Wikidata: [Q2328350](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2328350)
- iNaturalist taxon: [387056](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/387056)

## Names

- en: Bush Spider

## Countries with the most observations

NZ (233)

## Summary

Cambridgea foliata, commonly known as the New Zealand sheet-web spider, is a species of spider in the family Desidae. These nocturnal, arboreal spiders are endemic to the North Island of New Zealand and build large horizontal sheet-webs with a large number of knock-down threads.

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

## Photo

![Bush Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/bush-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Chelsea Haley · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/206316771

## Machine access

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