Aculepeira carbonaria (L. Koch, 1869)
Description
Male palp with long jags on base of median apophysis. Conductor flat. Epigyne with only slightly widened scapus basally, tip more or less stepped. Opisthosoma ventrally only with bright median stripe on dark area.
Body length female: 15.5 mmAdditional information
probably only in valleys in high alpine regions
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Levi 1977b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levi 1977b)
Embolic division
(Thaler 1991b)
Conductor, frontal view
(Thaler 1991b)
Tibia II, dorsal view
(Levi 1977b)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Levi 1977b)
Epigyne, lateral view
(Levi 1977b)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Levi 1977b)
Epigyne (scapus removed), ventral view
(Levi 1977b)
Vulva, posterior view
(Levi 1977b)
Opisthosoma, ventral view
(Levi 1977b)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Levi 1977b)
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.
References
Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244 
Blagoev G (2002) Check list of Macedonian spiders (Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 54: 9-34
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
Deltshev C D, Ćurčić B P M, Blagoev GA (2003b) The spiders of Serbia. Inst. Zoology, Fac. Biology, Belgrade & Inst. Zoology, Bulg. Acad. Sci., Sofia. 832 pp.
Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin
Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Levi H W (1977b) The orb-weaver genera Metepeira, Kaira and Aculepeira in America north of Mexico (Araneae, Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 148: 185-238
Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12
Morano E (2023) La familia Araneidae Clerck, 1757 (Arachnida: Araneae) en al ámbito ibero-balear. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 42: 67-118
Thaler K (1991b) Pachygnatha terilis n.sp. aus den Südalpen, mit Bemerkungen zu einigen Araneidae der Alpenländer (Arachnida: Aranei, Tetragnathidae, Araneidae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 78: 47-57
Thaler K, Knoflach B (2003) Zur Faunistik der Spinnen (Araneae) von Österreich: Orbiculariae p.p. (Araneidae, Tetragnathidae, Theridiosomatidae, Uloboridae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 35: 613-655
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2