Verrucosa arenata

Verrucosa arenata
	female V. arenata from Virginia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Verrucosa
Species:	V. arenata
Binomial name
	Verrucosa arenata; (Walckenaer, 1842)
Synonyms
	Epeira mexicana Lucas, 1833; Epeira arenata Walckenaer, 1841; Epeira verrucosa Hentz, 1850; Acanthepeira verrucosa Marx, 1883; Verrucosa arenata McCook, 1888; Mahadeva verrucosa Keyserling, 1892; Verrucosa arenata McCook, 1894; Araneus mexicanus Simon, 1895; Epeira verrucosa Emerton, 1902; Verrucosa arenata F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904; Araneus arenatus Petrunkevitch, 1911; Araneus aequiangulus Franganillo, 1930; Araneus aequiangulus ochraceus Franganillo, 1930; Verrucosa arenata Petrunkevitch, 1930; Verrucosa arenata Levi, 1976; Verrucosa arenata Coddington, 1990; Verrucosa arenata Scharff & Coddington, 1997; Verrucosa arenata Levi, 2002; Verrucosa arenata Lise, Kesster & da Silva, 2015;

Verrucosa arenata, also known as the arrowhead spider, arrowhead orb weaver, or triangle orb weaver, is a species of orb-weaver spider (family Araneidae). It is widely distributed in the New World. Other species of the genus Verrucosa occur in North and South America.^[1]

The genus name Verrucosa derives from Latin, meaning "warty". The specific epithet arenata derives from Latin "arena", meaning "sand".

Description

Arrowhead spiders create a new web every day, removing the old one after sunrise. Unlike most other orb weavers, it will rest in the web with the head up.^[2]