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title: "Five-spotted star-web spider"
description: "Uroctea durandi — Insetos e aranhas. Uroctea durandi is a Mediterranean spider about 16 mm in length, dark in color with five yellow spots on its back."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/five-spotted-star-web-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Five-spotted star-web spider

> Uroctea durandi — Insetos e aranhas. Uroctea durandi is a Mediterranean spider about 16 mm in length, dark in color with five yellow spots on its back.

- Scientific name: *Uroctea durandi*
- Category: `insects` (Insetos e aranhas)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 1272
- Wikidata: [Q145988](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q145988)
- iNaturalist taxon: [213088](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/213088)

## Names

- en: Five-spotted star-web spider
- de: Zeltdachspinne
- fr: Araignée Clotho

## Countries with the most observations

FR (448), ES (293), PT (212), HR (85), GR (36), IT (24), SI (14), ME (7), AL (6), DZ (5), GB (5), TR (5)

## Summary

Uroctea durandi is a Mediterranean spider about 16 mm in length, dark in color with five yellow spots on its back.
It lives under rocks, where it constructs an upside-down tent-like hanging web about 4 cm in diameter. From each of the six openings two signaling threads protrude. When an insect or millipede touches one of these threads, the spider lunges out of the respective opening and catches its prey.

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

## Photo

![Five-spotted star-web spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/five-spotted-star-web-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Marino Linić · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/121090382

## Machine access

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