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Araneidae  Clerck, 1757 / Araneus  Clerck, 1757   26 species

Araneus pulcherrimus  (Roewer, 1942)

Description
Male

Male unknown.

Female

Resembles A. diadematus, but with sharp protuberances on shoulders, anterior eyes smaller and more separated than in A. diadematus.

Additional information

species inquirenda, originally described from N-Italy, but not mentioned by Pantini & Isaia (2017)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Russia: not mentioned by Mikhailov (2013), therefore removed; Slovakia: doubtful (Gajdos et al. 1999).
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Italy, Slovakia?
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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.

Romania  Removed (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) |||
References

Gajdoš P, Svatoň J, Sloboda J (1999) Katalóg pavúkov Slovenska. Catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Ústav kr. ekol. SAV, Bratislava, 337 pp.

Koch C L (1844) Die Arachniden. Nürnberg, Eilfter Band, pp. 1-174 pdf

Mikhailov K G (2013) The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262 pdf

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

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
13-10-2023 Distribution insert Detail
21-05-2018 Distribution update Detail
09-05-2016 Datasheet update Detail
04-03-2015 Image insert