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Trichonephila clavata, also known as the Joro-spider (ジョロウグモ, Jorō-gumo), is a spider in the Trichonephila genus. Native to East Asia, it is found throughout China, Japan (except Hokkaidō), Korea, and Taiwan, and has been spreading across North America since the 2010s.
Pages in category "Endemic spiders of Japan" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... Japanese water spider; N. Nipponidion okinawense; P.
Heptathela kimurai, the Kimura spider, or kimura-gumo (in Japanese), is an Old World spider, found primarily in Japan and named after Arika Kimura, who collected it in 1920. It belongs to the sub-order Mesothelae (primitive burrowing spiders) and can reach up to 3 cm in length. Its burrows are covered by a camouflaged "pill box" flap.
Ono had collected Japanese specimens of the water spider and found that species in Europe and Japan differed: An infraspection classification is herewith proposed mainly on the basis of a slight difference in the shape of male palp recognized between specimens from Europe and Japan. [1] Ono proposed the new subspecies because the Japanese male ...
The Giant Japanese funnel-web spider, known formally as Macrothele gigas, is a species of funnel-web spider in the family Macrothelidae. [1] It is one of the largest funnel-web spiders in the world, and is highly venomous.
Asemonea tanikawai is a jumping spider that was first described by Hiroyoshi Ikeda in 1996. [1] The species was allocated to the genus Asemonea, first raised by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1869. [2]
Jorōgumo can also refer to some species of spiders, such as the Nephila and Argiope spiders. Japanese-speaking entomologists use the katakana form of jorōgumo ( ジョロウグモ ) to refer exclusively to the spider species Trichonephila clavata , and this has been adopted into English as "Joro spider".
This category contains articles about spiders that have an Asian native distribution, rather than being limited to particular regions or countries in Asia. Spiders native to Asia may also be found in categories covering larger areas: Category:Cosmopolitan spiders – spiders native worldwide