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Araneidae  Clerck, 1757 / Araneus  Clerck, 1757   26 species

Araneus pallidus  (Olivier, 1789)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015089

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Description
Male

Opisthosoma anteriorly with strongly developed, edgy shoulder humps. Sternum dark, without pattern. Palp: embolus conically tapering, with apical, pointed lamella which often breaks off during copulation.

Female

Opisthosoma anteriorly with strongly developed, edgy shoulder humps. Sternum dark, without pattern or with anterior light stripe.

Body length female: 23 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Omitted from the Italian checklist by Pantini & Isaia (2015)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Portugal, Spain, France, Algeria
Figures
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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Morano unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Morano unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp in detail, retrolateral view
(Morano unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Grasshoff 1968)

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male Median apophysis, prolateral view
(Wunderlich 2023)

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female Epigyne
(Simon 1929)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Morano unpubl.)

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female Epigyne, antero-ventral view
(Morano unpubl.)

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female Epigyne, antero-ventral view
(Morano unpubl.)

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female Epigyne, antero-ventral view
(Grasshoff 1968)

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female Vulva
(Simon 1929)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Morano unpubl.)

Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| France   (no references) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Grasshoff M (1968) Morphologische Kriterien als Ausdruck von Artgrenzen bei Radnetzspinnen der Subfamilie Araneinae (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 516: 1-100 pdf

Morano E (unpubl.)

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Simon E (1929) Les arachnides de France 6 (3). Paris (Roret): 533-772 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Wunderlich J (2023) Contribution to the spider (Araneida) fauna of the Algarve, Portugal, with notes on the phylogeny of the superfamily Araneoidea and the description of the new araneoid family Fonteferridae. Beiträge zur Araneologie 16: 4-112 pdf

Updates
28-11-2023 Image insert
19-11-2023 Distribution insert Detail
08-01-2017 Image insert
29-12-2014 Distribution update Detail