''Arachnura scorpionoides'' is a species of drag tail spider, in the genus ''

Arachnura ''Arachnura'', also known as drag-tailed spider, scorpion-tailed spider and scorpion spider, is a genus of Araneidae, orb-weaver spiders that was first described by A. Vinson in 1863. They are distributed across Australasia, South Asia, Southern ...

'', native to Congo,

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

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and

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. A specimen of this species has recently been seen (January 2013) in

Nairobi Nairobi ( ) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase ''Enkare Nairobi'', which translates to "place of cool waters", a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper ha ...

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, East Africa. The specimen laid over 65 eggs which later hatched, therefore making ''Arachnura scorpionoides'' a native species of Kenya.

References

Araneidae Spiders of Africa Spiders described in 1863 {{Araneidae-stub