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Golden Silk Spider
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Golden Silk Spider

Trichonephila clavipes

Trichonephila clavipes is the only species of the genus Trichonephila indigenous to continental North and South America. In the United States, it is commonly known as the "banana spider".

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 904336.