Taxon details
Araniella opisthographa (Kulczyński, 1905)
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2020-01-23
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015330]
- Distribution: Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe) to Central Asia, Iran
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- Syntype: Museum and Institute of Zoology (MIZ), Polish Academy of Science (PAN), Warsaw, Poland; mm ff [fig. 30 and note on p. 298, sub A. cucurbitina] (Levi, 1974b)
- Syntype: ; 1m 4f of Araniella tbilisiensis, presumably lost (Zamani, Marusik & Šestáková, 2020)
Araneus cucurbitinus opisthographus Lessert, 1910b: 319, f. 171-172 (mf).
Aranea cucurbitina opisthographa Wiehle, 1931: 108, f. 165-166 (mf).
Aranea cucurbitina opisthographa Drensky, 1943: 245, f. 22 (mf).
Araneus cucurbitinus opistographus Millidge & Locket, 1952: 65, f. 7d (m).
Araneus cucurbitinus opistographus Tullgren, 1952: 172, f. 17a-c (mf).
Araneus cucurbitinus opistographus Locket & Millidge, 1953: 145, f. 98B (m).
Araneus cucurbitinus opistographus Chrysanthus, 1955a: 301, f. 1 (f).
Araneus opistographus Locket, Millidge & Merrett, 1974: 65, f. 39A-D (f, elevated from subspecies of A. cucurbitina).
Araniella cucurbitina opistographa Palmgren, 1974a: 36, f. 16e-f (mf).
Araniella cucurbitina Levi, 1974b: 298 (S, rejected).
Araniella opisthographa Punda, 1975b: 36, f. 60-61 (mf).
Araneus opistographus Blanke, 1976a: 77, f. 1b, 2b, 3b, 4b (mf).
Araneus opisthographus Blanke, 1980a: 97, f. 2, 5, 8 (mf).
Araneus opisthographus Blanke, 1980b: 225, f. 2a, 3b (mf).
Araniella opisthographa Blanke, 1982: 289, f. 3c-d, 5c-d, 6c-d, 8b (mf, removed from S).
Araniella opistographa Roberts, 1985: 216, f. 97b (mf).
Araniella opisthographa Levy, 1987: 244, f. 1-9 (mf).
Araniella opistographa Ransy, 1987: 25, f. 7, 10, 13 (mf).
Araniella opisthographa Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 78, f. 176 (mf).
Araniella opisthographa Roberts, 1995: 328, f. (mf).
Araneus tbilisiensis Mcheidze, 1997: 280, f. 642-644 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015333].
Araniella opisthographa Roberts, 1998: 341, f. (mf).
Araniella tbilisiensis Mikhailov, 1998b: 18 (Tmf from Araneus).
Araniella opistographa Melero & Anadón, 2002: 170, f. 1-3 (m).
Araniella opisthographa Almquist, 2006: 154, f. 162a-g (mf).
Araniella opisthographa Spasojevic et al., 2016: 457, f. 2C-D, 9D, H, L (mf).
Araniella opisthographa Zamani, Marusik & Šestáková, 2020: 23, f. 2C-D, 6C-D, 7D, 8D, 9D, 10D (mf, S of Araniella tbilisiensis).
Almquist, S. (2006). Swedish Araneae, part 1 – families Atypidae to Hahniidae (Linyphiidae excluded). Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 62(2005): 1-284. [publ. in 2006 per Jonsson, in litt.] 
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Blanke, R. (1976a). Morphologisch-ethologische Divergenzen und Anwendung des Biospecies-Konzepts bei Angehörigen der Kreuzspinnen-Gattung Araneus (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae). Entomologica Germanica 3(1-2): 77-82. doi:10.1127/entom.germ/3/1976/77 -- Show included taxa
Blanke, R. (1980a). Die systematische Stellung von Araneus cucurbitinus maderianus Kulczynski 1905 (Arachnida: Araneae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 61: 97-102. -- Show included taxa
Blanke, R. (1980b). Die Verschiedenen bei Kreuzspinnen (Araneidae) auftretenden Bastardierungssperren. Proceedings 8. Internationaler Arachnologen-Kongress Wien 1980: 225-228. -- Show included taxa
Blanke, R. (1982). Untersuchungen zur Taxonomie der Gattung Araniella (Araneae, Araneidae). Zoologica Scripta 11(4): 287-305. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.1982.tb00540.x -- Show included taxa
Chrysanthus, P. (1955a). Notes on spiders I. Entomologische Berichten 15: 301-303. -- Show included taxa
Drensky, P. (1943). Die Spinnenfauna Bulgariens. VI. Unterordnung Arachnomorphae, II Gruppe Trionichia, Familie Euetrioidae. Bulletin des Institutions Royales d'Histoire Naturelle à Sophia 16: 219-254. -- Show included taxa
Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. -- Show included taxa
Kulczyński, W. (1905b). Fragmenta arachnologica. V. Bulletin International de l'Academie des Sciences de Cracovie 1905: 231-250. -- Show included taxa
Lessert, R. de (1910b). Catalogue des invertebres de la Suisse. Fasc. 3, Araignées. Musée d'histoire naturelle de Genève, 635 pp. -- Show included taxa
Levi, H. W. (1974b). The orb-weaver genera Araniella and Nuctenea (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 146(6): 291-316. -- Show included taxa
Levy, G. (1987). Spiders of the genera Araniella, Zygiella, Zilla and Mangora (Araneae, Araneidae) from Israel, with notes on Metellina species from Lebanon. Zoologica Scripta 16(3): 243-257. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.1987.tb00071.x -- Show included taxa
Locket, G. H. & Millidge, A. F. (1953). British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp. -- Show included taxa
Locket, G. H., Millidge, A. F. & Merrett, P. (1974). British Spiders, Volume III. Ray Society, London, 315 pp. -- Show included taxa
Mcheidze, T. S. (1997). [Spiders of Georgia: Systematics, Ecology, Zoogeographic Review]. Tbilisi University, 390 pp. (in Georgian). [English version published by Otto (2014) available here] -- Show included taxa
Melero, V. X. & Anadón, A. (2002). Segunda cita para la Península Ibérica de Araniella opistographa (Kulczynski, 1905) (Araneae, Araneidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 6: 169-172. -- Show included taxa
Mikhailov, K. G. (1998b). Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the territories of the former Soviet Union. Addendum 1. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 48 pp. -- Show included taxa
Millidge, A. F. & Locket, G. H. (1952). New and rare British spiders. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 163(1): 59-78. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1952.tb00641.x -- Show included taxa
Palmgren, P. (1974a). Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands und Ostfennoskandiens. IV. Argiopidae, Tetragnathidae und Mimetidae. Fauna Fennica 24: 1-70. -- Show included taxa
Punda, H. (1975b). Pająki Borów Sosnowych. Polska Akad. Nauk, 91 pp. -- Show included taxa
Ransy, M. (1987). Les problemes d'identification du genre Araniella (Araneidae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 4: 25-28. -- Show included taxa
Roberts, M. J. (1985). The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1: Atypidae to Theridiosomatidae. Harley Books, Colchester, England, 229 pp. -- Show included taxa
Roberts, M. J. (1995). Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp. -- Show included taxa
Roberts, M. J. (1998). Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp. -- Show included taxa
Spasojevic, T., Kropf, C., Nentwig, W. & Lasut, L. (2016). Combining morphology, DNA sequences, and morphometrics: revising closely related species in the orb-weaving spider genus Araniella (Araneae, Araneidae). Zootaxa 4111(4): 448-470. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4111.4.6 -- Show included taxa
Tullgren, A. (1952). Zur Kenntnis schwedischer Spinnen. I. Entomologisk Tidskrift 73: 151-177. -- Show included taxa
Wiehle, H. (1931). Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea. 27. Familie. Araneidae. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 23: 47-136. -- Show included taxa
Zamani, A., Marusik, Y. M. & Šestáková, A. (2020). On Araniella and Neoscona (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Caucasus, Middle East and Central Asia. ZooKeys 906: 13-40. doi:10.3897/zookeys.906.47978 -- Show included taxa
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-23 | New taxonomic reference entry | Zamani, Marusik & Šestáková, 2020 | n/a |
| 2020-01-23 | Species distribution update | Zamani, Marusik & Šestáková, 2020 | n/a (Old value) |
| 2020-01-23 | Species synonymy | Zamani, Marusik & Šestáková, 2020 | Araniella tbilisiensis synonymized with Araniella opisthographa |
| 2016-05-26 | New taxonomic reference entry | Spasojevic et al., 2016 | n/a |