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Araneidae  Clerck, 1757 / Araneus  Clerck, 1757   26 species

Araneus washingtoni  Levi, 1971

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015307

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Description
Male

Colouration as in females, except legs distinctly banded.

Body length male: 5.0 mm
Female

Prosoma brown. Sternum dark brown. Legs brown, indistinctly banded. Opisthosoma: dorsum with folium and a black line between the humps, anterior part with white cardiac mark and a white transverse line, sides with a black patch, venter black, with white bracket on each side.

Body length female: 6.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Not in the European part of Russia (Mikhailov 2013)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Russia (Central and East Siberia), USA, Canada
Figures
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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Levi 1971)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levi 1971)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Marusik & Kovblyuk 2011)

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male Embolus with cap
(Levi 1971)

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male Embolus
(Levi 1971)

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male Terminal apophysis, prolateral view
(Levi 1971)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Levi 1971)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Levi 1971)

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female Epigyne, posterior view
(Levi 1971)

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female Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Levi 1971)

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

Levi H W (1971) The diadematus group of the orb-weaver genus Araneus north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 141: 131-179 pdf

Marusik Y M, Kovblyuk M M (2011) Spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of Siberia and Russian Far East. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 344 pp. pdf

Mikhailov K G (2013) The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
21-05-2018 Distribution update Detail
19-03-2015 Image insert
04-03-2015 Image insert