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Araneus diadematus Clerck, 1757

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014834

Description

Body colour very variable, from light yellowish to brownish, reddish to almost black. Legs distinctly annulated. Opisthosoma appearing angular anteriorly, widest in anterior third, dorsally with distinct, cross-shaped, white pattern.

Body length male: 4-11 mm
Body length female: 10-22.5 mm

Additional information

On herbs and bushes, mostly in forest edges, in gardens and at buildings

Frequency: Very frequent

Distribution

Presence

No data

Global distribution (WSC 2021): Europe, Middle East, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, Central Asia, China, Japan. Introduced to North America

Phenology



Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Figures

Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Azheganova 1968)

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Roberts 1995)

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wiehle 1931)

Pedipalp
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1931)

Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Grasshoff 1968)

Tegular apophysis
(Loksa 1972)

Palpal apophysis
(Loksa 1969)

Epigyne
(Azheganova 1968)

Epigyne
(Roberts 1995)

Epigyne
(Wiehle 1931)

Epigyne
(Loksa 1972)

Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

Epigyne, ventral view
(Grasshoff 1968)

Habitus
(Loksa 1972)

Coxae I and II
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

Habitus
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

Habitus
(Azheganova 1968)

Habitus
(Wiehle 1931)

Distribution List

Albania (no references) ||| Andorra (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Armenia (Otto, 2020) ||| Austria (no references) ||| Azerbaijan (Otto, 2020) ||| Belarus (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Belgium (no references) ||| Bosnia and Herzegovina (Komnenov, 2010) ||| Bulgaria (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia (no references) ||| Cyprus (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Czechia (no references) ||| Denmark (no references) ||| Estonia (no references) ||| Finland (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| France (no references) ||| France / Corsica (no references) ||| Georgia (Otto, 2020) ||| Germany (no references) ||| Greece (no references) ||| Greece / Crete (no references) ||| Hungary (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Iceland (Agnarsson, 1996) ||| Ireland (no references) ||| Italy (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Kosovo Removed (Geci & Naumova, 2021b) ||| Latvia (Cera, 2018) ||| Liechtenstein (no references) ||| Lithuania (no references) ||| Luxembourg (Hermann, 1998; Kreuels et al., 2019) ||| Moldova (no references) ||| Montenegro (no references) ||| Netherlands (no references) ||| North Macedonia (no references) ||| Northern Ireland (no references) ||| Norway (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Poland (no references) ||| Portugal (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Romania (no references) ||| Russia, Central (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern (no references) ||| Russia, Kaliningrad Region (no references) ||| Russia, Northern (no references) ||| Russia, Southern (Otto, 2020) ||| Russia, Western (no references) ||| Serbia (Geci & Naumova, 2021b) ||| Slovakia (no references) ||| Slovenia (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Spain (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Sweden (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Switzerland (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia) (Danışman et al., 2021a) ||| Turkey (Europe) (Danışman et al., 2021a) ||| Ukraine (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) ||| United Kingdom (no references) |||

References

Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129

Agnarsson I (1996) Íslenskar köngulær Fjölrit Náttúrufræðistofnunar 31: 1-175

Azheganova N S (1968) Kratkii opredelitel' paukov (Aranei) lesnoi i lesostepnoi zony SSSR. Akademia Nauk SSSR, 149pp.

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018)

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254

Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S (2021a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2021 [last updated 1 January 2021], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info

Geci D, Naumova M (2021b) A preliminary checklist of the spiders of Kosovo (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologia Balkanica, Special Edition 4: 11-28

Grasshoff M (1968) Morphologische Kriterien als Ausdruck von Artgrenzen bei Radnetzspinnen der Subfamilie Araneinae (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 516: 1-100

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin

Hermann E (1998) Die Spinnen (Araneae) ausgewählter Halbtrockenrasen im Osten Luxemburgs. Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes Luxembourgeois 99: 189-199

Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311

Komnenov M (2010) Checklist of spiders (Araneae) of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Uzizaž i Biospeld 5(2009): 52-69

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91

Kreuels M, Staudt A, Christian S (2019) Die Spinnenfauna von Luxemburg – eine Zusammenstellung der Nachweise aus den Jahren 1906-2018 (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes luxembourgeois 121: 203-230

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001]

Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp.

Loksa I (1969) Pokok I-Araneae I. Fauna Hungariae 97: 1-133

Loksa I (1972) Pokok II-Araneae II. Fauna Hungariae 109: 1-112

Otto S (2020) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 03.2020. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App

Roberts M J (1995) Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp.

Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184

Wiehle H (1931) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, VI. 27: Familie Araneidae. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 23: 47-136

WSC (2021) World Spider Catalog. Version 22.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (29.05.2021) doi: 10.24436/2

Updates

19-06-2021	Distribution update	Detail
29-01-2021	Distribution insert	Detail
08-06-2020	Distribution update	Detail
15-03-2020	Distribution insert	Detail
08-01-2017	Image insert
01-12-2013	Distribution update	Detail