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title: "Oak Spider"
description: "Aculepeira ceropegia — Insetos e aranhas. Aculepeira ceropegia, the oak spider, is an orb-weaving spider species belonging to the family Araneidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/oak-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Oak Spider

> Aculepeira ceropegia — Insetos e aranhas. Aculepeira ceropegia, the oak spider, is an orb-weaving spider species belonging to the family Araneidae.

- Scientific name: *Aculepeira ceropegia*
- Category: `insects` (Insetos e aranhas)
- Habitats: `forest` (Floresta)
- iNaturalist observations: 9952
- Wikidata: [Q1301286](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1301286)
- iNaturalist taxon: [121775](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/121775)

## Names

- en: Oak Spider
- de: Eichblatt-Radspinne
- es: Araña hoja de roble
- fr: Épeire des bois
- nl: Eikenbladspin
- pl: Kołosz wielobarwny

## Countries with the most observations

FR (1602), DE (1232), IT (1191), AT (749), RU (731), CH (469), PL (361), ES (272), LT (210), CZ (169), RO (112), BE (72)

## Summary

Aculepeira ceropegia, the oak spider, is an orb-weaving spider species belonging to the family Araneidae.

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

## Photo

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

Photo: Lorenzo Colcergnan · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/373535305

## Machine access

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