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1A) bright yellow (when alive) with 5 narrow to wide bluish-green horizontal bands; venter of opisthosoma (Fig. 1C) with anterior fifty percent marked with irregular black-brown indirect stripes and posterior fifty percent with two broad, oblique, pink markings anterior towards the spinnerets. Figure one Photographic pictures of Nephila clavata suspended in its net in northeast Georgia, taken in October 2014. The male (Fig. 1D) is appreciably scaled-down compared to the feminine, measuring only 4鈥�8 mm in duration. The prostoma is mild brown with two darkish brown longitudinal bands on The Interpretation Of the Valine each sides. The opisthosoma is elongate-oval with its dorsum greenish-brown with two yellowish longitudinal stripes on both equally sides of the dark brown median line. The palpal organ of the male is described and illustrated by Feng (1990: ninety six, Figs. 2鈥�3); Zhu, Song & Zhang (2003: 76, Fig. 32, I, J); Tanikawa (2007: 95, Figs. 764, 766), and Zhu & Zhang (2011: 194, Fig. 136, I, J). The anatomical characters given under descriptive notes above are adapted from the translation of Kim, Kim & Lee (1999), Tanikawa (2007), and Zhu & Zhang (2011). Color pictures on the female, dorsal and lateral aspects, and the male are provided in Yaginuma (1960: 67, Plate 29, Fig. 163). Distribution. Nephila clavata is found throughout Japan (except the island of Hokkaido), Korea, China, and Taiwan (Kim, Kim & Lee, 1999). The World Spider Catalog (2014) lists the species as occurring from 鈥淚ndia to Japan鈥�. The Meaning Of Valine Material examined鈥擭ew North American records (Fig. 2). UNITED STATES: Ga: Barrow Co., Hoschton, 31-x-2014, C. Robbins, 5 females [34.089846, 鈭�83.8266]. Jackson The Meaning Of Tipifarnib Co., Braselton, 31-x-2014, R. Barbani, 2 females & egg sac [34.138962, 鈭�83.798877]; Braselton, Braselton Park, 4-xi-2014, GMNHTC 12242, E. R. Hoebeke and B. J. Freeman, 2 females & 2 males [34.1072909, 鈭�83.7638141]; Braselton, 9-xi-2014, K. Youngblood (image only) [34.142209, 鈭�83.7564699]; Hoschton, 4-xi-2014, C. Glick (image only) [34.064256, 鈭�83.693733]; Hoschton, 4-xi-2014, K. and J. Howell, one feminine [34.093613, 鈭�83.747015]; Jefferson, 4-xi-2014, C. Hamilton, one female [34.097902, 鈭�83.6953489]. Madison Co., Colbert, 4-x-2014, GMNHTC 12241, W. Huffmaster, 1 feminine [34.073869, 鈭�83.2742425]; Comer, 7-xi-2014, K. Fields, one woman [34.0878353, 鈭�83.1133751]. Figure 2 Map of Ga, USA. Bionomics and habitat. Nephila clavata is univoltine in Japan. Eggs overwinter and spiderlings emerge from the egg cocoons in early June in central Japan (Miyashita, 1986; Miyashita, 1990; Miyashita & Hayashi, 1996). Males reach maturity by late August, and females become sexually mature in September and early October.