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Araneidae  Clerck, 1757 / Aculepeira  Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942   7 species

Aculepeira carbonarioides (Keyserling, 1892)

Description
Male

Prosoma reddish brown, cephalic part yellowish brown. Sternum dark brown. Chelicerae dark reddish brown. Legs dark brown, tibiae and metatarsi with 2 light rings, proximal half of tarsi light. Opisthosoma dark grey, with numerous white spots.

Body length male: 6.5-10.4 mm
Female

Colouration as in males, but legs somewhat darker.

Body length female: 10.1-12.9 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Russia (Europe to Far East), Alaska, Canada, USA
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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.

Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Russia, Northern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a; Koponen et al., 1998) |||
References

Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1996a) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Urals. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 228 pp. pdf

Holm Å (1970) Notes on spiders collected by the "Vega" Expedition 1878-1880. Entomologica Scandinavica 1: 188-208 pdf

Koponen S, Marusik Y M, Tanasevitch A V (1998) New data on the spider fauna of the Polar Urals (Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 6: 109-119 pdf

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 pdf

Marusik Y M, Fomichev A A (2026) New data on spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) from northeastern Yakutia. Arthropoda Selecta 35: 135-146 pdf

Paquin P, Dupérré N (2003) Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Supplément 11: 1-251 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
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