Araniella opisthographa (Kulczyński, 1905)
Description
Male palp with brad-shaped tegular apophysis, median apophysis long and sickle-like bent. Epigyne with scapus, longer than wide, reaching distinctly beyond epigyne. Entrance ducts not or only indistinctly visible through epigyne. Prosoma yellow to red-brown, mostly with dark marginal band in male. Legs yellow to red-brown, often with dark annulations. Femur I male: with 7, rarely 8 bristles distributed on whole length. Opisthosoma yellowish green, with 5 pairs of black lateral dots (5th posterior pair usually small and indistinct (see also Sacher (1990)), ventro-median field rarely darker than its surrounding, often brightened.
Body length male: 3.5-4 mmBody length female: 4-6 mm
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Roberts 1995)
Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1931)
Pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Pedipalp, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Pedipalp
(Spasojevic et al. 2016)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Zamani et al. 2020)
Pedipalp, ventro-retrolateral view
(Zamani et al. 2020)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Zamani et al. 2020)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Zamani et al. 2020)
Bulbus
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Tip of bulbus, caudal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Median apophysis
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Mcheidze 1997)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1995)
Epigyne
(Wiehle 1931)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Almquist 2005)
Epigyne
(Mcheidze 1997)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Spasojevic et al. 2016)
Epigyne/vulva, ventral view
(Spasojevic et al. 2016)
Epigyne, anterior view
(Zamani et al. 2020)
Epigyne, lateral view
(Zamani et al. 2020)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Zamani et al. 2020)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Zamani et al. 2020)
Vulva
(Locket et al. 1974)
Vulva
(Locket et al. 1974)
Vulva
(Locket et al. 1974)
Vulva
(Locket et al. 1974)
Vulva, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Spasojevic et al. 2016)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Spasojevic et al. 2016)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Mcheidze 1997)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Sacher 1990)
Distribution List
References
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Spasojevic T, Kropf C, Nentwig W, Lasut L (2016) Combining morphology, DNA sequences, and morphometrics: revising closely related species in the orb-weaving spider genus Araniella (Araneae, Araneidae). Zootaxa 4111: 448-470
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World Spider Catalog (2019) World Spider Catalog, version 20.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.09.2019) doi: 10.24436/2
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