Araneidae

Grbić, Gordana, Hänggi, Ambros & Krnjajić, Slobodan, 2021, Spiders (Araneae) Of Subotica Sandland (Serbia): Additional Arguments In Environmental Protection, Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 67 (1), pp. 15-61 : 23

Family Araneidae

Singa lucina (Audouin, 1826)

Material: 30.05.2014 M3 1f.

Determination: LOKSA 1972, LEVY 1984.

Global distribution: Mediterranean to Central Asia.

Habitat: Dense vegetation on the bank of fish ponds ( LEVY 1991).

Note: The species manly lives on low plants and is commonly collected by sweeping the vegetation, whilst their orb webs are hardly noticed ( LEVY 1984). It closely resembles specimens of Singa hamata and S. nitidula , and mixed collections of all three species are very common ( LEVY 1984). In accordance with literature data ( LEVY 1984), our finding is also connected with water. According to NENTWIG et al. (2020) Singa lucina is already known from most of the Balkan countries. Its female was figured by LOKSA (1972) from Hungary and by DRENSKY (1943) from Bulgaria. Singa lucina is not treated in any of the consulted Red List of species.