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Araneidae  Clerck, 1757 / Neoscona  Simon, 1864   8 species

Neoscona crucifera (Lucas, 1838)

Description
Additional information

Non-established species in Europe (Nentwig, 2015)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): North America. Introduced to Hawaii, Azores, Madeira, Canary Is.
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References

Berman J D, Levi H W (1971) The orb weaver genus Neoscona in North America (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 141: 465-500 pdf

Grasshoff M (1986) Die Radnetzspinnen-Gattung Neoscona in Afrika (Arachnida: Araneae). Annalen Zoologische Wetenschappen 250: 1-123 pdf

Nentwig W (2015) Introduction, establishment rate, pathways and impact of spiders alien to Europe. Biological Invasions 17: 2757-2778 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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