#4358 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Joro Spider
Trichonephila clavata
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Trey Wardlaw · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Trey Wardlaw · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Observações Naturalistas | Bruno Uehara · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © John Deitsch · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Kumon · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © drchancey · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Ivan feng · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © 野一點 A Little Wilder · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Joan Knapp · CC BY-ND 4.0
what is it?
Trichonephila clavata , also known as the Jorō spider (ジョロウグモ（女郎蜘蛛、上臈蜘蛛）, Jorō-gumo ), is a member of the golden orb-web spider genus. The spider can be found throughout Japan except Hokkaidō, in Korea, Taiwan, China, and more recently, northeast Georgia in North America. Due to the large size as well as the bright, unique colors of the female Trichonephila , the spider is well-favored in Japan.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 32,764 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Joro Spider
- scientific name
- Trichonephila clavata
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Nephilidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 2
- sightings worldwide
- 32,764
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Nephilidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 904334, Wikidata Q104386227, GBIF 10670284, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.