Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Superfamily: Araneoidea
Family: Araneidae
Common name: Orb Spiders

For more details on Orb web spiders visit  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orb-weaver_spider

Photos of some New Zealand orbweb spiders

Species 1
Orbweb spider brown-12.JPG

Closeup of the back of the spider in the photo above
Orbweb spider brown-13.JPG


Orb spider-3.JPG

Species 2

Eriophora pustulosa-6.JPG Same as above.

Eriophora pustulosa-4.JPG

 

An orbweb spider with young spider with adult

Eriophora pustulosa Orb web spider.JPG  Species 3
Orb Spider.JPG