Araneus Clerck, 1757

Mi, Xiaoqi, Wang, Cheng & Gan, Jiahui, 2023, Six new species of the orb-weaver spider genus Araneus Clerck, 1757 (Araneae, Araneidae) and a redescription of A. colubrinus Song & Zhu, 1992 from Fanjingshan National Nature Reserve, Guizhou, China, ZooKeys 1173, pp. 243-273 : 243

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1173.106315
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Araneus Clerck, 1757: 22

Type species.

Araneus angulatus Clerck, 1757.

Comment.

We place the six new species in the genus Araneus provisionally because they share very similar habitus and copulatory organs with other Araneus species, although they are very different from the generotype Araneus angulatus in somatic and genitalic structures. Grouping of the species is according to Yin et al. (1997).