Argiope ocyaloides

L.Koch, 1871 · species

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Animalia/Arthropoda/Arachnida/Araneae/Araneidae/Argiope

At a glance

Occurrence records517

Data sources8

Biological traits1

DNA specimens1

eDNA detections1

Sources8 archives

Databases and archives Argiope ocyaloides's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation4 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility517 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗

World Spider Trait DBMasaryk University1 traits · 1 refs↗

World Spider CatalogNaturhist. Museum Bernworld catalog↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

On this page5 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements1 literature sources1 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF517 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 1 countries1 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD1 specimens

01Narrative

Argiope ocyaloides is a species of orb-web spider found in Queensland, Australia. It is commonly known as bark-hugging St Andrews cross spider. Argiope ocyaloides can be found in crevices of dark coloured bark on eucalypt, acacia, or similar trees. It is smaller than most other species of Argiope and is dark brown to black in colour. The abdomen of Argiope ocyaloides is long with a pointed tip whereas the similar species Argiope mascordi has a shorter abdomen with rounded tip.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesPekár 2014a

Defence1

Primary defenceCrypsis

05DNA & barcoding1 specimens

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Argiope ocyaloides has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens1

BINs1

Marker genes1

eDNA detections1

Countries1

Marker genes sequenced

★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.

★COI-5P

animal barcode

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type517 records

Wild obs. + sensor485

Museum / vouchered32

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO928 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy90% within 1 km

≤100 m 192≤1 km 102≤10 km 18>10 km 15

327 georeferenced · 158 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor485

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy60% within 1 km

≤100 m 1≤1 km 2>10 km 2

5 georeferenced · 27 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence32

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions3 of 7 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Natick, US	17
Sydney, AU	7
Museums Victorialocation not on record	3
Western Australian Museumlocation not on record	2
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territorylocation not on record	1
Cambridge, US	1
QVMAGlocation not on record	1

7 institutions · 32 of 32 vouchered records shown

09Environmental DNA1 detections

Where the DNA of Argiope ocyaloides was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.

Signal

Detections DNA found1

Studies independent surveys1

Countries1

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 1 detections have coordinates

Open the map1 country0

How strong is each trace?

DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.

Modelled climatemodelled

−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C

Temperature median21.9 °C 21.9–21.9

Seasonal swing summer↔winter18.4 °C

Max temp (day)28.5 °C

Min temp (night)15.0 °C

Precipitation15.6 mm/mo

Air humidity43.4 %

Moisture balance-143 mm/mo

Vapour deficit1,624 Pa

Wind speed4.00 m/s

Cloud cover18.1 %

CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 1 detection point · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche

How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.

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