Araniella opisthographa ( Kulczynski , 1905)

Zamani, Alireza, Marusik, Yuri M. & Sestakova, Anna, 2020, On Araniella and Neoscona (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Caucasus, Middle East and Central Asia, ZooKeys 906, pp. 13-40 : 13

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.906.47978

publication LSID

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scientific name

Araniella opisthographa ( Kulczynski , 1905)
status

 

Araniella opisthographa ( Kulczynski, 1905) View in CoL Figs 2C, D View Figure 2 ; 6C, D View Figure 6 ; 7D View Figure 7 ; 8D View Figure 8 ; 9D View Figure 9 ; 10D View Figure 10

Araniella opisthographa : Blanke 1982: 289, fig. 3c-d, 5c-d, 6c-d, 8b (♂♀); Roberts 1995: 328, fig. (♂♀); Almquist 2005: 154, fig. 162a-g (♂♀).

Araneus tbilisiensis Mcheidze, 1997: 280, fig. 642-644 (♂♀). syn. nov.

Comments.

Araneus tbilisiensis was described based on one male and four females from the environs of Tbilisi, Georgia. There is no indication which specimen/sex was selected as the holotype. Mcheidze (1997) provided figures of male and female habitus, as well as epigyne, but the male palp was not illustrated. Judging from the figure of epigyne and distribution, it is most likely a junior synonym of A. opisthographa , which is already known from the surroundings of Tbilisi ( Otto 2019). We tried to obtain the type material for this study, but we have been informed that the single male specimen is most probably lost (V. Pkhakadze, pers. comm.).*

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Araneidae

Genus

Araniella