How to identify it?
Female
Light-colored type, overall whitish, cephlothorax white, legs white, only with a small number of black annular stripes.
Adult
Deltoid cephalothorax, heavily haired. Abdomen oblate, swollen, dorsal abdomen blackish-grey, with 4 continuous coffee-bean-shaped white spots in the center, and 2 more pairs of geniculate white spots on the end closer to cephalothorax. 4 pairs of legs, the last pair the longest, every leg with clear black bristles. Body color richly varied, with dark-colored type, overall blackish, cephalothorax black, legs black and grey alternating.
Scientific Classification
Phylum
Arthropods Class
Arachnids Order
Spiders Family
Orb weavers Genus
Spotted orb-weavers Species
Western spotted orbweaver 
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