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Araneidae  Clerck, 1757 / Argiope  Audouin, 1826   5 species

Argiope australis (Walckenaer, 1805)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015352

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Description
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Cape Verde, Senegal, Central, Eastern and Southern Africa
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bjørn 1997)

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male Embolus
(Jäger 2012)

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male Embolus
(Jäger 2012)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Bjørn 1997)

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female Epigyne, posterior view
(Bjørn 1997)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Bjørn 1997)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Jäger 2012)

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female Epigyne, posterior view
(Jäger 2012)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Jäger 2012)

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female Sternum
(Bjørn 1997)

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female Opisthosoma, ventral view
(Bjørn 1997)

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female Habitus, dorsal view
(Bjørn 1997)

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.

Morocco   (Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) |||
References

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

Bjørn P P (1997) A taxonomic revision of the African part of the orb-weaving genus Argiope (Araneae: Araneidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 28: 199-239 pdf

Jäger P (2012) A review on the spider genus Argiope Audouin 1826 with special emphasis on broken emboli in female epigynes (Araneae: Araneidae: Argiopinae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 7: 272-331 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
20-12-2024 Distribution update Detail
09-10-2019 Image insert