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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: 4.0-11.0 mm
Body length female: 10.0-22.5 mm

Additional information

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

Distribution

Presence

No data

Global distribution (WSC 2024): 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)

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Tegular apophysis
(Loksa 1972)

Tegular apophysis
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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)

Epigyne, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Habitus
(Loksa 1972)

Coxae I and II
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

Habitus
(Locket & Millidge 1953)

Habitus
(Azheganova 1968)

Habitus
(Wiehle 1931)

Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Albania (Deltshev et al., 2011b; Vrenozi, 2012; Blick, 2018) ||| Andorra (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Armenia (Otto, 2022) ||| Austria (no references) ||| Azerbaijan (Otto, 2022) ||| Belarus (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Belgium (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Bosnia and Herzegovina (Komnenov, 2010) ||| Bulgaria (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Cyprus (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Czechia (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Denmark (no references) ||| Estonia (Vilbaste, 1987) ||| Finland (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| France (no references) ||| France / Corsica (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Georgia (Otto, 2022) ||| Germany (no references) ||| Greece (no references) ||| Greece / Crete (no references) ||| Hungary (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Iceland (Agnarsson, 1996) ||| Ireland (Lavery, 2019) ||| Italy (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Kosovo (Grapci-Kotori et al., 2022) ||| Latvia (Cera, 2018) ||| Liechtenstein (Arnold, 2001) ||| Lithuania (no references) ||| Luxembourg (Hermann, 1998; Kreuels et al., 2019) ||| Moldova (Vasiliev & Mikhailov, 2023) ||| Montenegro (Naumova et al., 2019a) ||| Netherlands (no references) ||| North Macedonia (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Northern Ireland (Lavery, 2019) ||| Norway (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Poland (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Portugal (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Romania (no references) ||| Russia, Central (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Russia, Eastern (no references) ||| Russia, Kaliningrad Region (no references) ||| Russia, Northern (no references) ||| Russia, Southern (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| 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., 2024a) ||| Turkey (Europe) (Danışman et al., 2024a) ||| Ukraine (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) ||| United Kingdom (Lavery, 2019) |||

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

Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244

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)

Blick T (2018) A small collection of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the River Vjosa, Albania – with an updated spider checklist of Albania. Acta ZooBot Austria 155: 213-232

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

Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69

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, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info

Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144

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

Grapci-Kotori L, Geci D, Naumova M, Ibrahimi H, Bilalli A, Musliu M, Gashi A, Kasumaj E (2022) Spiders from Sharr Mountain – new faunistic data (Arachnida: Araneae). Natura Croatica 31: 335-350

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

Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267

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]

Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468

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

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna].

Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. 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

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.

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

Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html

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

Vasiliev A I, Mikhailov K G (2023) Annotated checklist of spiders (Araneae) of the Republic of Moldova. Invertebrate Zoology 20: 307-342

Vilbaste A (1987) Eesti Ämblikud (Aranei). Annoteeritud nimestik. Estonian spiders (Aranei). An annotated check list. Valgus, Tallinn. 113 pp. & 512 maps on 67 unpag. pages

Vrenozi B (2012) A collection of spiders (Araneae) in Albanian coastal areas. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 41-46

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

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2

Updates

26-05-2023	Distribution update	Detail
18-02-2023	Image insert
13-01-2023	Distribution update	Detail
10-01-2023	Distribution update	Detail
09-01-2023	Image insert
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