Neoscona adianta (Walckenaer, 1802)

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

Neoscona adianta (Walckenaer, 1802)

Neoscona adiantum : Grasshoff 1986: 66, fig. 85-89 (♂♀).

Neoscona adianta : Levy 1998: 339, fig. 108-116 (♂♀); Tanikawa 1998: 140, fig. 9, 18-24 (♂♀); Tanikawa 2007: 68, fig. 160-161, 575-577 (♂♀).

Diagnosis.

Both sexes of this species well differ from other congeners occurring in Central Asia, Iran and Caucasus by the absence of a white median band on the sternum.

Description.

See above-cited literature.

Distribution.

Transpalaearctic, known throughout the region: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Altai in South Siberia ( Mikhailov 2013, Zamani et al. 2019).*