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It's an Orb Weaver.
I have 6 on my back porch.
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I was unsure if you were right because i couldn't find a picture of an orb weaver that had that pattern on the underside of its thorax. Then wiki educated me:
"The family is a large one, including over 2800 species in over 160 genera worldwide"
So yah, it is an orb weaver but which is it?
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Looks like
this one to me.