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 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 mmFemale
Opisthosoma unicoloured silver-grey, lobed laterally.
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.)
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
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, 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
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
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
Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144
Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin
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
Loksa I (1972) Pokok II-Araneae II. Fauna Hungariae 109: 1-112
Mikhailov K G (2013) The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262
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
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.)
Vrenozi B (2012) A collection of spiders (Araneae) in Albanian coastal areas. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 41-46
WSC (2023) World Spider Catalog. Version 24. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (14.02.2023) doi: 10.24436/2