Taxon details
Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837)
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2023-07-05
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016758]
- Distribution: Southern Europe, Africa, Turkey, Middle East, Ukraine, Caucasus, Russia (Europe) to Central Asia
- External Resources *:
- Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material of Aranea submodesta neumanni destroyed 1944 (Renner, 1988b)
- Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); f (28864-117) of Neoscona parva
- Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material destroyed 1944; f of Aranea submodesta
- Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); (20775) Aranea submodesta
- Holotype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NMB), Switzerland (database search of type material, 08.04.2019); f (ARAN-01154 ) of Araneus hoffmanni
- Holotype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; j (043) of Araneus aballensis bimaculatus (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
- Holotype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; m (090) of Neoscona immodesta (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
- Holotype: Zoology Museum of Padova University (ZMPU), Padua, Italy; m of Epeira limans (Guariento et al., 2018)
- Paratype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); 1f (9347) of Aranea restiaria
- Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; 1m 2f (15552, 24415) of Araneus arganicola (Bosmans & Hervé, 2021)
- Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); 1jm 1jf (9329) of Araneus artifex
- Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; 2m (088, 089) of Neoscona albobitriangulosa (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
- Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; 2j (041) of Araneus aballensis albozonatus (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
- Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; 1j (042) of Araneus aballensis angustifolius (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
- Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; 2f 1j (046, 047) of Araneus aballensis foliatus (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
- Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; 1f 2j (052) of Araneus aballensis nigricans (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
- Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; 2f 6j (059-061) of Araneus aballensis subconcolor (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
- Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; 1f 1j (048) of Araneus granatae (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
- Syntype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK; 5m 16f (B. 1902; B. 1086, t. 12; B. 1067, t. 11, t. 15) of Epeira perplicata (Levy, 1998a)
Atea subfusca C. L. Koch, 1844: 140, f. 939 (Df).
Epeira dalmatica Doleschall, 1852: 648 (Df).
Epeira blanda Blackwall, 1865a: 95 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060907].
Epeira impedita L. Koch, 1867c: 859 (Df).
Epeira illibata Simon, 1870b: 312 (Dm).
Epeira perplicata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 300 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060965].
Epeira illibata Simon, 1873a: 169, pl. 3, f. 2 (m).
Epeira limans Thorell, 1875a: 81 (Dm).
Epeira limans Thorell, 1875c: 7 (Dm).
Epeira subfusca Lebert, 1877: 128.
Epeira radulans Pavesi, 1883: 11 (Dm).
Epeira dalmatica Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1891: 129, pl. 5, f. 6 (mf).
Aranea nigrita Thorell, 1899: 52 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060956].
Aranea submodesta Strand, 1906b: 621 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060987].
Aranea submodesta neumanni Strand, 1906b: 683 (Df).
Araneus mesonauta Simon, 1907d: 290, f. 1C (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060948].
Araneus occidaneus Simon, 1907d: 295, f. 3B (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060960].
Araneus dalmaticus minor Simon, 1908a: 430 (D).
Aranea submodesta Strand, 1908g: 402.
Araneus arganicola Simon, 1909b: 26 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014718].
Aranea restiaria Tullgren, 1910: 166, pl. 4, f. 117 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060969].
Aranea restiaria obscura Tullgren, 1910: 166 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060970].
Aranea artifex Tullgren, 1910: 166, pl. 4, f. 118 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060904].
Araneus dalmaticus Lessert, 1910b: 169.
Aranea dalmatica Strand, 1915c: 146.
Araneus dalmaticus Simon, 1929: 696, 763, f. 1078-1080 (mf).
Araneus hoffmanni Schenkel, 1937: 384, f. 5 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060929].
Neoscona albobitriangulosa Caporiacco, 1939a: 341, f. 12 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060899].
Araneus artifex Caporiacco, 1940c: 828 (Dm).
Araneus perplicatus Caporiacco, 1940c: 829.
Neoscona perplicata Caporiacco, 1941b: 75, f. 25a-d (Dm, f, T from Araneus).
Neoscona immodesta Caporiacco, 1941b: 77, f. 26a-c (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060930].
Neoscona submodesta neumanni Caporiacco, 1941b: 78 (T from Araneus).
Araneus aballensis angustifolius Caporiacco, 1941b: 80 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060891].
Araneus aballensis foliatus Caporiacco, 1941b: 80 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060893].
Araneus aballensis subconcolor Caporiacco, 1941b: 80 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060895].
Araneus aballensis albozonatus Caporiacco, 1941b: 81 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060890].
Araneus aballensis bimaculatus Caporiacco, 1941b: 81 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060892].
Araneus aballensis nigricans Caporiacco, 1941b: 81 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060894].
Araneus granatae Caporiacco, 1941b: 81, f. 27-28 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060925].
Aranea dalmatica Drensky, 1943: 241, f. 17 (m).
Neoscona artifex Caporiacco, 1947c: 169 (T from Araneus).
Araneus tullgreni Caporiacco, 1947c: 173, f. 30 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060992].
Araneus tullgreni obscuratus Caporiacco, 1947c: 174 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060993].
Neoscona wiehlei Caporiacco, 1949a: 414, f. 56a-c (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060995].
Neoscona submodesta neumanni Caporiacco, 1949a: 416 (S of Neoscona immodesta).
Araneus airensis Denis, 1955b: 135, f. 41-44 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060898].
Araneus subfuscus Fuhn & Oltean, 1969: 166, pl. II, f. 1-2 (mf).
Neoscona parva Schmidt, 1973: 370, f. 6-7 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060964].
Neoscona parva Schmidt, 1975a: 509, f. 4.
Neoscona subfusca Grasshoff, 1980: 406 (T from Araneus, S of Neoscona artifex).
Araneus granatai Brignoli, 1983c: 260.
Neoscona dalmatica Morano & Ferrández, 1986: 175, f. 9-11 (mf).
Neoscona subfusca Grasshoff, 1986: 15, f. 2, 4, 11-24 (mf, S of Araneus aballensis albozonatus, A. a. angustifolius, A. a. bimaculatus, A. a. foliatus, A. a. nigricans, A. a. subconcolor, A. albobitriangulosus, A. blandus, A. granatae, A. hoffmanni, A. mesonauta, A. nigritus, A. occidaneus, A. restiarius, A. r. obscurus, A. submodestus, A. tullgreni, A. t. obscuratus, Neoscona parva and N. wiehlei).
Neoscona subfusca Levy, 1998a: 336, f. 96-107 (mf, S of Neoscona perplicata).
Neoscona subfusca Saaristo, 2010: 43, f. 4.35-38 (mf).
Neoscona subfusca Soliman et al., 2018: 152, pl. 11D-F, 12A (mf).
Neoscona subfusca Bosmans & Hervé, 2021: 58, f. 1a-g (mf, S of Araneus arganicola).
Neoscona subfusca Pintilioaie & Urák, 2022a: 2, f. 4a-c (f).
Neoscona subfusca Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 15, p. 15: 3 f., p. 16: 9 f., p. 17: 2 f. (f).
Neoscona subfusca Stanković, 2023: 606, f. 3 (m).
Neoscona subfusca Morano, 2023: 100, f. 100-103 (mf).
Blackwall, J. (1865a). Descriptions of recently discovered spiders collected in the Cape de Verde Islands by John Gray, Esq. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 16(92): 80-101. doi:10.1080/00222936508679383 
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Bosmans, R. & Hervé, C. (2021). Less is more: eight new synonyms in Mediterranean spiders (Araneae), with a new Pelecopsis species from Tunisia (Linyphiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 61: 58-64. doi:10.30963/aramit6109 -- Show included taxa
Brignoli, P. M. (1983c). A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press, 755 pp. -- Show included taxa
Caporiacco, L. di (1939a). Arachnida. In: Missione biologica nel paese dei Borana. Raccolte zoologiche. Reale Accademia d'Italia, Roma 3, 303-385. -- Show included taxa
Caporiacco, L. di (1940c). Aracnidi raccolte nella Reg. dei Laghi Etiopici della Fossa Galla. Atti della Reale Accademia d'Italia 11: 767-873. -- Show included taxa
Caporiacco, L. di (1941b). Arachnida (esc. Acarina). Araneae. Missione Biologica Sagan-Omo, Reale Accademia d’Italia, Roma 12(Zoologia 6): 46-175. [the page numbers given at the single species partly refer to a differently paginated reprint] -- Show included taxa
Caporiacco, L. di (1947c). Arachnida Africae Orientalis, a dominibus Kittenberger, Kovács et Bornemisza lecta, in Museo Nationali Hungarico servata. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 40: 97-257. -- Show included taxa
Caporiacco, L. di (1949a). Aracnidi della colonia del Kenya raccolti da Toschi e Meneghetti negli anni 1944-1946. Commentationes Pontificia Academia Scientiarum 13: 309-492. -- Show included taxa
Chyzer, C. & Kulczyński, W. (1891). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus I. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae, Budapest, 170 pp., 4 Pls. -- Show included taxa
Denis, J. (1955b). Contribution à l'étude de l'Aïr (Mission L. Chopard et A. Villiers). Araignées. Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire 17(A): 99-146. -- Show included taxa
Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H., Lotz, L. N. & Webb, P. (2022f). The Araneidae of South Africa. Version 2: part 3 (Ne-U). South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 66 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6326991 -- Show included taxa
Doleschall, L. (1852). Systematisches Verzeichniss der im Kaiserthum Österreich vorkommenden Spinnen. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, Wien 9: 622-651. [sub 'Doleschal'] -- 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
Fuhn, I. E. & Oltean, C. (1969). Aranee din pǎdurea Hagieni (Dobrogea) [Araigneés de la forêt de Hagieni (Dobroudja)]. Ocrotirea naturii şi mediului inconjurator, Bucureşti 13: 165-174. -- Show included taxa
Grasshoff, M. (1980). Contributions à l'étude de la faune terrestre des îles granitiques de l'archipel des Séchelles (Mission P.L.G. Benoit - J.J. Van Mol 1972). Araneidae-Argiopinae, Araneidae-Araneinae (Araneae). Revue Zoologique Africaine 94(2): 387-409. -- Show included taxa
Grasshoff, M. (1986). Die Radnetzspinnen-Gattung Neoscona in Afrika (Arachnida: Araneae). Annalen Zoologische Wetenschappen 250: 1-123. -- Show included taxa
Koch, C. L. (1837b). Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. Heft 1. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, 39 pp., pl. 1-6. [for the detailled publishing date see Nagel & Grieder, 2019: 47] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.39561 -- Show included taxa
Koch, C. L. (1844). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Elfter Band, pp. 1-174, pl. 361-396 (f. 850-959). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 -- Show included taxa
Koch, L. (1867c). Zur Arachniden und Myriapoden-Fauna Süd-Europas. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 17: 857-900. -- Show included taxa
Lebert, H. (1877). Die Spinnen der Schweiz, ihr Bau, ihr Leben, ihre systematische Übersicht. Neue Denkschriften der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 27: 1-321, pl. 1-6. -- 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
Levy, G. (1998a). Twelve genera of orb-weaver spiders (Araneae, Araneidae) from Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 43: 311-365. -- Show included taxa
Morano H., E. & Ferrández, M. Á. (1986). Especies nuevas o de interés de la familia Araneidae Latreille, 1806 (Arachnida, Araneae) de la fauna Ibérica. Miscellanea Zoologica 9: 171-178. -- Show included taxa
Morano, E. (2023). La familia Araneidae Clerck, 1757 (Arachnida: Araneae) en al ámbito ibero-balear. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 42: 67-118. -- Show included taxa
Pavesi, P. (1883). Spedizione italiana nell'Africa equatoriale. Risultati zoologici. Aracnidi del regno di Scioa. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 20: 5-105. -- Show included taxa
Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 40(1): 212-354, pl. 13-16. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1872.tb00489.x -- Show included taxa
Pintilioaie, A.-M. & Urák, I. (2022a). First record of Neoscona byzanthina (Araneae: Araneidae) in Romania. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 63: 1-3. doi:10.30963/aramit6301 -- Show included taxa
Saaristo, M. I. (2010). Araneae. In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 8-306. -- Show included taxa
Schenkel, E. (1937). Beschreibungen einiger afrikanischer Spinnen und Fundortsangaben. Festschrift Embrik Strand 3: 373-398. -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G. (1973). Zur Spinnenfauna von Gran Canaria. Zoologische Beiträge (N.F.) 19: 347-391. -- Show included taxa
Schmidt, G. (1975a). Spinnen von Gomera. Zoologische Beiträge (N.F.) 21(2): 219-231. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1909b). Etude sur les arachnides recueillis au Maroc par M. Martinez de la Escalera en 1907. Memorias de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural (6) 1: 5-43. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1870b). Aranéides nouveaux ou peu connus du midi de l'Europe. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège (2) 3: 271-358. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1873a). Aranéides nouveaux ou peu connus du midi de l'Europe. (2e mémoire). Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège (2) 5(8): 1-174, pl. 1-3. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1907d). Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 1re partie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 43: 218-323. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1908a). Etude sur les arachnides recueillis par M. le Dr. Klaptocz en Tripolitaine. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 26: 419-438. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1929). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 3e partie. Roret, Paris, 533-772. -- Show included taxa
Soliman, F. E., Moustafa, A. Y., Ismail, T. G. & El-Masry, S. M. (2018). Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Jazirat Shandweel District, Sohag Governorate, Egypt. Serket 16(3): 133-160. -- Show included taxa
Stanković, B. (2023). Diversity of spider fauna in the area of Jagodina (Serbia). In: Seydoşoğlu, S. & Durna Aydin, Ö. (eds.) International Cukurova Agriculture and Veterinary Congress 4. Adana, pp. 590-615. -- Show included taxa
Strand, E. (1906b). Diagnosen nordafrikanischer, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelter Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 30: 604-637, 655-690. -- Show included taxa
Strand, E. (1908g). Nordafrikanische, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelte Argiopiden. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 16: 329-440. -- Show included taxa
Strand, E. (1915c). Dritte Mitteilung über Spinnen aus Palästina, gesammelt von Herrn Dr J. Aharoni. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 81(A2): 134-171. -- Show included taxa
Thorell, T. (1875a). Diagnoses Aranearum Europaearum aliquot novarum. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 18: 81-108. -- Show included taxa
Thorell, T. (1875c). Descriptions of several European and North African spiders. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 13(5): 1-204. -- Show included taxa
Thorell, T. (1899). Araneae Camerunenses (Africae occidentalis) quas anno 1891 collegerunt Cel. Dr Y. Sjöstedt aliique. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 25(IV, 1): 1-105. -- Show included taxa
Tullgren, A. (1910). Araneae. In: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905-1906 unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Yngve Sjöstedt. Sjöstedts Kilimandjaro-Meru Expedition 20(6): 85-172, pl. 1-4. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6622 -- Show included taxa
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-05 | New taxonomic reference entry | Morano, 2023 | n/a |
| 2023-03-23 | New taxonomic reference entry | Stanković, 2023 | n/a |
| 2022-06-08 | New taxonomic reference entry | Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f | n/a |
| 2022-05-31 | New taxonomic reference entry | Pintilioaie & Urák, 2022a | n/a |
| 2021-04-26 | New taxonomic reference entry | Bosmans & Hervé, 2021 | n/a |
| 2021-04-26 | Species synonymy | Bosmans & Hervé, 2021 | Neoscona arganicola synonymized with Neoscona subfusca |
| 2019-01-03 | New taxonomic reference entry | Soliman et al., 2018 | n/a |