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title: "White-banded Bird-dropping Spider"
description: "Cyrtarachne ixoides — Insetos e aranhas. Cyrtarachne ixoides is a species of spider in the family Araneidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/white-banded-bird-dropping-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# White-banded Bird-dropping Spider

> Cyrtarachne ixoides — Insetos e aranhas. Cyrtarachne ixoides is a species of spider in the family Araneidae.

- Scientific name: *Cyrtarachne ixoides*
- Category: `insects` (Insetos e aranhas)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 518
- Wikidata: [Q3178346](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3178346)
- iNaturalist taxon: [326348](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/326348)

## Names

- en: White-banded Bird-dropping Spider
- fr: Araignée fausse tique

## Countries with the most observations

FR (159), IT (109), ES (74), PT (64), ZA (28), RE (9), GE (4), IL (4), HR (3), RU (3), TR (3), ZW (3)

## Summary

Cyrtarachne ixoides is a species of spider in the family Araneidae. It has a wide global distribution from the Mediterranean basin to Georgia and Madagascar, and is commonly known as the bird dropping araneid spider.

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

## Photo

![White-banded Bird-dropping Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/white-banded-bird-dropping-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Crebassa Jason · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/24831846

## Machine access

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