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Araneidae  Clerck, 1757 / Argiope  Audouin, 1826   5 species

Argiope lobata  (Pallas, 1772)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015380

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Description
Male

Male palp with median apophysis ± as long as wide, with irregular and large teeth. Conductor rectangularly bent distally. Prosoma female: prosoma shiny silver. Male: unicoloured silver-grey or yellowish. Sternum yellowish-brown, bright medially. Legs yellow, with narrow brown annulations. Opisthosoma uniformly yellowish, darker ventrally, not lobed laterally.

Body length male: 5.2-7.5 mm
Female

Opisthosoma unicoloured silver-grey, lobed laterally.

Body length female: 16.8-25.5 mm
Additional information

on grass only in very warm places

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2023): Southern Europe to Central Asia and China, northern Africa, Tanzania, South Africa, Israel, Pakistan, India, from Myanmar to New Caledonia and northern Australia
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventro-lateral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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male Pedipalp, ventro-lateral view
(Pesarini unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp, frontal view
(Taberlet unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp, ventro-lateral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)

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male Embolus
(Taberlet unpubl.)

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male Tegular apophysis
(Loksa 1972)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Jedlickova unpubl.)

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female Epigyne, posterior view
(Jedlickova unpubl.)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Jedlickova unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Loksa 1972)

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female Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)

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female Epigyne, anterior view
(Taberlet unpubl.)

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female Epigyne, posterior view
(Taberlet unpubl.)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)

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female Vulva, anterior view
(Taberlet unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Taberlet unpubl.)

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female Habitus
(Loksa 1972)

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Habitus
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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Habitus
(Jedlickova unpubl.)

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Habitus
(Jedlickova unpubl.)

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) ||| Algeria   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Armenia   (Kosyan, 2022) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia   (no references) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Egypt   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| France   (no references) ||| France / Corsica   (no references) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Greece / Crete   (no references) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Libya   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Malta   (Pfliegler et al., 2017) ||| Moldova   (no references) ||| Montenegro   (no references) ||| North Macedonia   (no references) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Romania   (no references) ||| Russia, Central   (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) ||| Serbia   (no references) ||| Slovakia   (no references) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2022) ||| Turkey (Europe)   (Danışman et al., 2022) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

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) pdf

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 pdf

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

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S (2022) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2022 [last updated 24 August 2022], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

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

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin pdf

Jedlickova (unpubl.)

Kosyan M A (2022) The first record of the genus Argiope of the family Araneidae: Argiope bruennichi (Scopoli, 1772) and Argiope lobata (Pallas, 1772) in Armenia. Proceedings of the Yerevan State University, Chemistry and Biology 56: 63-67 pdf

Loksa I (1972) Pokok II-Araneae II. Fauna Hungariae 109: 1-112 pdf

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 pdf

Pesarini C (unpubl.)

Pfliegler W A, Schönhofer A, Niedbała W, Vella P, Sciberras A, Vella A (2017) New records of mites (Acari) and harvestmen (Opiliones) from Malta with a preliminary checklist of Maltese Arachnida. Soil Organisms 89: 85-110 pdf

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

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

Taberlet J-P (unpubl.)

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

WSC (2023) World Spider Catalog. Version 24. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (14.02.2023) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
26-05-2023 Distribution update Detail
29-10-2022 Distribution insert Detail
17-06-2021 Image insert
17-06-2021 Gallery image insert
10-11-2018 Datasheet update Detail