araneae - Araneus nordmanni

Description

Epigyne with broad, roughly wrinkled scapus. Prosoma brown, eye region brightened. Sternum dark brown to black. Chelicerae brown. Legs brown, vaguely annulated. Opisthosoma dark grey-brown to black with light grey spots. Humps flat, on widest part of opisthosoma.

Body length male: 7.5 mm
Body length female: 8.5-10.5 mm

Additional information

probably in tree crowns of forests in low to medium mountain range

Distribution

Presence

No data

Global distribution (WSC 2024): North America, Europe, Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Russia (Europe to Far East), Korea, Japan

spring (?)

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.

Austria (no references) ||| Belarus (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Bulgaria (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Czechia (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Finland (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Georgia (Otto, 2022) ||| Germany (no references) ||| Italy (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Norway (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Poland (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Romania (no references) ||| Russia, Central (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern (no references) ||| Serbia (no references) ||| Slovakia (no references) ||| Sweden (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Switzerland (no references) ||| Ukraine (Hirna et al., 2016) |||

References

Aakra K (2005) Hjulspinnere - Araneidae. Insekt-Nytt 30(1/2): 23-38

Aakra K (unpubl.)

Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018)

Hirna A, Gnelitsa V, Zhukovets E (2016) A checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of the Chornohora Mountain massif (Ukrainian Carpathians). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 51: 16-38

Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001]

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

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

Roberts M J (1995) Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp.

Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html

Wiehle H (1931) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, VI. 27: Familie Araneidae. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 23: 47-136

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

Araneus nordmanni (Thorell, 1870)

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