Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Araneus

Araneus pallidus (Olivier, 1789)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-11-19
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015089]
  • Distribution: Portugal, Spain, France, Algeria
Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Aranea pallida Olivier, 1789: 200 (Df).
Epeira pallida Walckenaer, 1805: 60.
Epeira olivieri Walckenaer, 1841: 49 (Df).
Epeira pyrenaeus Simon, 1874c: 75 (Dm, f is Araneus diadematus).
Epeira angulata castanea Franganillo, 1909: 187 (Df).
Epeira cruciata crucincepta Franganillo, 1909: 188 (Df).
Epeira cruciata fusca Franganillo, 1909: 188 (Df).
Epeira cruciata iberoi Franganillo, 1909: 188 (Df).
Epeira cruciata pallida Franganillo, 1909: 188 (Df).
Epeira angulata castanea Franganillo, 1910: 12 (f).
Epeira cruciata crucincepta Franganillo, 1910: 13 (f).
Epeira cruciata fusca Franganillo, 1910: 12, f. 6 (f).
Epeira cruciata iberoi Franganillo, 1910: 13 (f).
Epeira cruciata pallida Franganillo, 1910: 12, f. 5 (f).
Araneus pallidus Simon, 1929: 679, 757, f. 1043-1044 (f).
Araneus pallidus Grasshoff, 1964: 305, f. 1-2 (f).
Araneus pallidus Grasshoff, 1968: 7, f. 17g-i, 20a-b, 21k-o, 23, 25-26, 29a'-b', 30c-d, 34d, 35n-q, 36n-q, 37n-q, 38n-q, 39n-q, 40b, 41d-f, 42b (mf).
Araneus pallidus Breitling et al., 2016b: 52 (S of Araneus angulatus castaneus, Araneus angulatus pallidus, Araneus angulatus crucinceptus, Araneus angulatus fuscus and Araneus angulatus iberoi).
Araneus pallidus Breitling et al., 2016b: 69 (S of Araneus pyrenaeus, m only, f is Araneus diadematus).
Araneus pallidus Morano, 2023: 80, f. 21-23 (mf).
Araneus pallidus Wunderlich, 2023: 41, f. 75a, photo 4 (m).
References

Breitling, R., Bauer, T., Schäfer, M., Morano, E., Barrientos, J. A. & Blick, T. (2016b). Phantom spiders 2: More notes on dubious spider species from Europe. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 52: 50-77. doi:10.5431/aramit5209 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Franganillo B., P. (1909). Arañas de la familia de los argiópidos observadas junto á la desembocadura del Miño. Actas y Memories des Primer Congreso de Naturalistas Espanoles 1: 185-189. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Franganillo B., P. (1910). Arañas de la desembocadura del Miño. Brotéria (Ser. Zool.) 9: 5-22. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Grasshoff, M. (1964). Die Kreuzspinne Araneus pallidus-ihr Netzbau und ihre Paarungsbiologie. Natur und Museum 94: 305-314. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Grasshoff, M. (1968). Morphologische Kriterien als Ausdruck von Artgrenzen bei Radnetzspinnen der Subfamilie Araneinae (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 516: 1-100. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Olivier, G. A. (1789). Araignée, Aranea. In: Encyclopédie Méthodique, Histoire Naturelle, Insectes. Tome quatrième. Panckoucke, Paris, pp. 173-240. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.82248 download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1874c). Listes d'arachnides d'Algérie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (5) 4(Bull.): 66, 106-107, 155. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1805). Tableau des aranéides ou caractères essentiels des tribus, genres, familles et races que renferme le genre Aranea de Linné, avec la désignation des espèces comprises dans chacune de ces divisions. Dentu, Paris, 88 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1841). Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Tome deuxième. Roret, Paris, 549 pp., pl. 16-22. [not published in 1837, see pp. 430, 452, 505; plates in second pdf of Walckenaer, 1837] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2023). Contribution to the spider (Araneida) fauna of the Algarve, Portugal, with notes on the phylogeny of the superfamily Araneoidea and the description of the new araneoid family Fonteferridae. Beiträge zur Araneologie 16: 4-112, 231-233. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-11-19 New taxonomic reference entry Wunderlich, 2023 n/a
2023-07-05 New taxonomic reference entry Morano, 2023 n/a
2019-12-28 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon n/a (Old value)
2019-12-28 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon n/a (Old value)
2016-10-07 New taxonomic reference entry Breitling et al., 2016b n/a
2016-10-07 Species synonymy Breitling et al., 2016b Araneus pyrenaeus synonymized with Araneus pallidus
2016-10-03 Species synonymy Breitling et al., 2016b Araneus angulatus iberoi synonymized with Araneus pallidus
2016-10-03 Species synonymy Breitling et al., 2016b Araneus angulatus fuscus synonymized with Araneus pallidus
2016-10-03 Species synonymy Breitling et al., 2016b Araneus angulatus crucinceptus synonymized with Araneus pallidus
2016-10-03 Species synonymy Breitling et al., 2016b Araneus angulatus pallidus synonymized with Araneus pallidus
2016-10-03 New taxonomic reference entry Breitling et al., 2016b n/a
2016-10-03 Species synonymy Breitling et al., 2016b Araneus angulatus castaneus synonymized with Araneus pallidus