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Araneidae  Clerck, 1757 / Argiope  Audouin, 1826   5 species

Argiope sector  (Forsskål, 1776)

Description
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Cape Verde, Senegal, North Africa, Middle East
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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.

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| Libya   (Bjørn, 1997) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans, 2003) |||
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

Bjørn P P (1997) A taxonomic revision of the African part of the orb-weaving genus Argiope (Araneae: Araneidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 28: 199-239 pdf

Bosmans R (2003) A checklist of the spiders of Tunisia, with description of a new species of Palliduphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Kaupia - Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte 12: 89-109 pdf

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 pdf

Jäger P (2012) A review on the spider genus Argiope Audouin 1826 with special emphasis on broken emboli in female epigynes (Araneae: Araneidae: Argiopinae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 7: 272-331 pdf

Levy G (1998a) Twelve genera of orb-weaver spiders (Araneae, Araneidae) from Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 43: 311-365 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
07-10-2024 Distribution update Detail
30-10-2023 Distribution update Detail
09-10-2019 Image insert
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