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Araneidae  Clerck, 1757 / Neoscona  Simon, 1864   8 species

Neoscona theisi (Walckenaer, 1841)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016763

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Description
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Cyprus, Israel, Caucasus (Russia, Georgia), Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Myanmar, Japan, China to Indonesia, Philippines, Australia. Introduced to Seychelles, Pacific Is.
Figures
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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Bosmans et al. 2019c)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosmans et al. 2019c)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans et al. 2019c)

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male Pedipalp, ventro-prolateral view
(Bosmans et al. 2019c)

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male Pedipalp, apical view
(Levy 1998a)

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male Pedipalp, mesal view
(Levy 1998a)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Levy 1998a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy 1998a)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Zamani et al. 2020a)

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male Tibia II
(Levy 1998a)

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male Tibia II, ventral view
(Zamani et al. 2020a)

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male Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Levy 1998a)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Levy 1998a)

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female Epigyne, posterior view
(Levy 1998a)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Levy 1998a)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Zamani et al. 2020a)

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female Epigyne, posterior view
(Zamani et al. 2020a)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Zamani et al. 2020a)

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female Sternum
(Zamani et al. 2020a)

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female Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Levy 1998a)

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female Opisthosoma, ventral view
(Zamani et al. 2020a)

Distribution List
Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Georgia  Removed (Zamani et al., 2020a; Seropian et al., 2023a) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev, 2022) |||
References

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 pdf

Levy G (1998a) Twelve genera of orb-weaver spiders (Araneae, Araneidae) from Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 43: 311-365 pdf

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. pdf

Seropian A, Otto S, Bulbulashvili N (2023a) Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arthropoda, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the CaBOL project. Part I. Caucasiana 2: 143-159 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

Zamani A, Marusik Y M, Šestáková A (2020a) On Araniella and Neoscona (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Caucasus, Middle East and Central Asia. ZooKeys 906: 13-40 pdf

Updates
21-03-2024 Distribution update Detail
20-01-2024 Distribution update Detail
24-01-2020 Image insert
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