The species was first described by the Swedish entomologist and arachnologist Carl Alexander Clerck (1709-1765) in 1757 as Araneus cucurbitinus [2] and was revised in 1942 by Chamberlin & Ivie with the name Araniella cucurbitina.

These spiders are mainly found on forest clearings, in woods, bushes, scrub and hedgerows and in low vegetation.

Moreover the male is generally much slimmer, with more developed limbs (Sexual dimorphism).

At the extremities of the pedipalps, males have the copulatory organs, called palpal bulbs, similar to an ampoule, that are used to transfer sperm to the female.

[7] Araniella opisthographa is an almost identical spider which can only be distinguished from A. cucurbitina by a microscopic investigation.