Argiope lobata (Pallas, 1772)
Description
Male
Male palp with median apophysis ± as long as wide, with irregular and large teeth. Conductor rectangularly bent distally. Prosoma 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 mmFemale
Prosoma shiny silver. Opisthosoma unicoloured silver-grey, ventrally darker, lobed laterally. In the area of the lobes sometimes with brownish contrasting colouration. Legs yellowish-brown and black annulated.
Body length female: 16.8-25.5 mmAdditional information
on grass only in very warm places
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventro-lateral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Pedipalp, ventro-lateral view
(Pesarini unpubl.)
Pedipalp, frontal view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Pedipalp, ventro-lateral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Embolus
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Tegular apophysis
(Loksa 1972)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Jedlickova unpubl.)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Jedlickova unpubl.)
Epigyne, lateral view
(Jedlickova unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Loksa 1972)
Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Epigyne, anterior view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Epigyne, dorsal view
(Ibrahimi et al. 2024)
Epigyne, lateral view
(Ibrahimi et al. 2024)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Ibrahimi et al. 2024)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Ibrahimi et al. 2024)
Vulva, ventral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Vulva, anterior view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Habitus
(Loksa 1972)
Habitus
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Habitus
(Jedlickova unpubl.)
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.
References
Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 
Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535
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)
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
Bosmans R (2003) A checklist of the spiders of Tunisia, with description of a new species of Palliduphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Kaupia - Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte 12: 89-109
Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124
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
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 (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144
Denis J (1956b) Spiders collected in French Morocco by the Durham Colleges Expedition Club. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 126: 275-281
El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183
Elkrew H, Hamza A, Ghana S, Shaibi T, Swehli A I, Elmareme H, Ahmad A (2024) Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Libya. Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences 22: 19346-19369
Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin
Ibrahimi K, Islami B, Kastrati B, Geci D, Bilalli A, Ibrahimi H (2024) New findings and an updated checklist of Araneidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Kosovo. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 10: 547-555
Jedlickova (unpubl.)
Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267
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
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Loksa I (1972) Pokok II-Araneae II. Fauna Hungariae 109: 1-112
Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna].
Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89
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
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
Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App
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.
Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184
Taberlet J-P (unpubl.)
Vasiliev A I, Mikhailov K G (2023) Annotated checklist of spiders (Araneae) of the Republic of Moldova. Invertebrate Zoology 20: 307-342
Vrenozi B (2012) A collection of spiders (Araneae) in Albanian coastal areas. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 41-46
WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2
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