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title: "Hairy Golden Orb-weaving Spider"
description: "Trichonephila fenestrata — Owady i pająki. Trichonephila fenestrata is a southern African species of spider in the family Araneidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/hairy-golden-orb-weaving-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Hairy Golden Orb-weaving Spider

> Trichonephila fenestrata — Owady i pająki. Trichonephila fenestrata is a southern African species of spider in the family Araneidae.

- Scientific name: *Trichonephila fenestrata*
- Category: `insects` (Owady i pająki)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 5302
- Wikidata: [Q116263148](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116263148)
- iNaturalist taxon: [904338](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/904338)

## Names

- en: Hairy Golden Orb-weaving Spider
- fr: Nephile béninoise

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (3733), UG (180), ZW (123), TZ (118), KE (98), ZM (62), ST (60), GM (56), MW (43), GA (42), GH (42), MZ (38)

## Summary

Trichonephila fenestrata is a southern African species of spider in the family Araneidae. It is commonly known as the black-legged golden orb-web spider.

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

## Photo

![Hairy Golden Orb-weaving Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/hairy-golden-orb-weaving-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Calum Maclure · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/267523011

## Machine access

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