Taxon details


Argiope lobata (Pallas, 1772)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-03-05
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015380]
  • Distribution: Southern Europe to Central Asia and China, northern Africa, Tanzania, South Africa, Middle East, Pakistan, India, Myanmar
Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Aranea lobata Pallas, 1772: 46, pl. 3, f. 14-15 (Df).
Aranea lobata Fabricius, 1781: 536 (D).
Aranea argentea Gmelin, 1789: 2954 (D; N.B.: the description fits rather to a member of the family Lycosidae).
Aranea sericea Olivier, 1789: 198 (D).
Aranea lobata Olivier, 1789: 232 (D).
Epeira sericea Latreille, 1806: 107 (D).
Segestria dentata Risso, 1826: 161 (D).
Epeira margaritacea Risso, 1826: 170 (D).
Argyope sericea Audouin, 1826: 124, pl. 2, f. 6 (f).
Argyope splendida Audouin, 1826: 125, pl. 2, f. 7 (Df).
Epeira sericea Hahn, 1836: 1, pl. 1, f. a (Df).
Argyopes praelautus C. L. Koch, 1838: 36, f. 359 (Df).
Argyopes sericea Eichwald, 1841: 241, pl. 37, f. 4 (f).
Epeira splendida Walckenaer, 1841: 117 (D).
Epeira dentata Walckenaer, 1841: 118 (Df).
Argyopes impudicus L. Koch, 1867c: 857 (Dm).
Argiope lobata Thorell, 1873: 520.
Argiope lobata Simon, 1874a: 29, pl. 1, f. 1 (mf).
Argiope arcuata Simon, 1884n: 343 (Df).
Argiope lobata Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1891: 117, pl. 4, f. 41 (mf).
Argiope arcuata Pocock, 1900a: 220, f. 70 (f).
Argiope lobata retracta Franganillo, 1918b: 122 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015381].
Argiope lobata Kolosváry, 1938b: 22, f. 1-5 (f; N.B.: names four additional "forms", without diagnoses).
Argiope lobata Drensky, 1943: 222, f. 3 (m).
Argiope lobata Denis, 1947a: 44, pl. II, f. 5 (f).
Aranea argentea Roewer, 1955c: 1395 (nicht zu deuten = nomen dubium).
Argiope lobata Levi, 1968a: 336, f. 25-38 (mf).
Argiope lobata Loksa, 1972: 110, f. 100A, 101C-D (mf).
Argiope lobata Bakhvalov, 1974: 108, f. 8-10 (mf).
Argiope arcuata Tikader, 1982a: 115, f. 215-218 (f).
Argiope lobata Levi, 1983: 284, f. 87-97 (mf, S).
Argiope lobata Hu, 1984: 104, f. 100.1-3 (f).
Argiope lobata Hu & Wu, 1989: 98, f. 74.1-3, 75.1-3 (mf).
Argiope lobata Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 80, f. 178 (mf).
Argiope lobata Baldacchino et al., 1993: 52, f. 7c (m).
Argiope lobata Bjørn, 1997: 221, f. 54-61 (mf).
Argiope lobata Scharff & Coddington, 1997: 374, f. 13 (m).
Argiope lobata Yin et al., 1997d: 84, f. 16a-f (mf).
Argiope lobata Levy, 1998a: 350, f. 151-164 (mf).
Argiope lobata Kakhki & Darvish, 2002: 163, f. 9a (m).
Argiope lobata Mirshamsi & Darvish, 2005: 5, f. 1, 2a-b, 3a-b, 4, 5a-b (mf).
Argiope lobata Rao et al., 2006b: 51, f. 1-6 (f).
Argiope lobata Uhl, Nessler & Schneider, 2010: 77, f. 1C (f).
Argiope lobata Jäger, 2012c: 288, f. 44-48 (mf).
Argiope lobata Tiunov & Esyunin, 2014: 1322, f. 2.3-4, 4.1-12 (mf).
Argiope lobata Lindecke & Wall, 2016: 179, f. 1a-b, 2 (f).
Argiope lobata Kosyan, 2022: 65, f. 2a-b, 3a-b (f).
Argiope lobata Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022d: 36, 4 unnumbered f. (f).
Argiope lobata Morano, 2023: 84, f. 36-40 (mf).
Argiope lobata El-Hennawy, 2023a: 227, f. 2-8 (f).
References

Audouin, V. (1826). Explication sommaire des planches d'arachnides de l'Égypte et de la Syrie. In: Savigny, M. J. C. L. de: "Description de l'Égypte, ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée franҫaise, publié par les ordres de sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand.". Histoire Naturelle 1(4): 1-339 (arachnids, pp. 99-186, pl. 1-7). [for year of publication and authorship see Sherbourn, 1897, Tollitt, 1986 and ICZN, 1987b; a second edition was publ. in 1829, with different pagination: arachnids, pp. 291-430] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bakhvalov, V. F. (1974). [Identification key of the spider family Araneidae from Kirgizia]. Entomologiceskie issledovanija v Kirgizii 9: 101-112. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Baldacchino, A. E., Dandria, D., Lanfranco, E. & Schembri, P. J. (1993). Records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Maltese Islands (central Mediterranean). The Central Mediterranean Naturalist 2(2): 37-59. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bjørn, P. P. (1997). A taxonomic revision of the African part of the orb-weaving genus Argiope (Araneae: Araneidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 28(2): 199-239. doi:10.1163/187631297X00060 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chyzer, C. & Kulczyński, W. (1891). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus I. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae, Budapest, 170 pp., 4 Pls. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1947a). Results of the Armstrong College expedition to Siwa Oasis (Libyan desert), 1935. Spiders [Araneae]. Bulletin de la Société Fouad 1er d'Entomologie 31: 17-103, pl. 1-6. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H., Lotz, L. N. & Webb, P. (2022d). The Araneidae of South Africa. Version 2: part 1 (A-C). South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 74 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6326922 download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Eichwald, E. (1841). Faunae Caspio-Caucasiae, illustrationes universae. Nouveaux Mémoires de la Société Impériale de Naturalistes de Moscou 7: 1-290 (Araneae, pp. 241-242). download pdf -- Show included taxa

El-Hennawy, H. K. (2023a). Argiope lobata (Pallas, 1772) in Jordan (Araneae: Araneidae). Serket 19(2): 223-228. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Fabricius, J. C. (1781). Species insectorum exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphos in adiectis observationibus, descriptionibus. Hamburgi and Kilonii, 1, 1-552 (Araneae, pp. 536-549). doi:10.5962/bhl.title.11658 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Franganillo B., P. (1918b). Arácnidos nuevos o hallados por primera vez en España. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica de España 1: 120-123. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gmelin, J. F. (1789). Caroli A Linné, Systema naturae...Editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata; cura Jo. Frid. Gmelin. Georg Emanuel Beer, Lipsiae [= Leipzig], 2946-2961. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hahn, C. W. (1836). Monographie der Spinnen. Lechner, Nürnberg, Heft 8, 1 p., 4 pls. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.122225 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hu, J. L. (1984). The Chinese spiders collected from the fields and the forests. Tianjin Science and Technology Press, 482 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hu, J. L. & Wu, W. G. (1989). Spiders from agricultural regions of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Shandong University Publishing House, Jinan, 435 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P. (2012c). 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, 358-362. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kakhki, O. M. & Darvish, J. (2002). [Cladistic study of families of Araneae (Arachnida) based on morphological characters]. Science Journal of University of Tehran 28(2): 151-166. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1838). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Vierter Band, pp. 109-144, pl. 139-144 (f. 319-339); Fünfter Band, pp. 1-124, pl. 145-174 (f. 340-417). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kolosváry, G. (1938b). Über die Epigyne-Varietäten der Spinnenart: Argyope lobata Pall. Zoologischer Anzeiger 123: 22-25. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kosyan, M. A. (2022). The first record of the genus Argiope of the family Araneidae: Argiope bruennichi (Scopoli, 1772) and Argiope lobata (Pallas, 1772) in Armenia. Proceedings of the Yerevan State University, Chemistry and Biology 56(1): 63-67. doi:10.46991/PYSU:B/2022.56.1.063 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Latreille, P. A. (1806). Genera crustaceorum et insectorum. Paris, tome 1, 302 pp. (Araneae, pp 82-127). download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1968a). The spider genera Gea and Argiope in America (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 136: 319-352. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1983). The orb-weaver genera Argiope, Gea, and Neogea from the western Pacific region (Araneae: Araneidae, Argiopinae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 150(5): 247-338. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (1998a). Twelve genera of orb-weaver spiders (Araneae, Araneidae) from Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 43: 311-365. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lindecke, O. & Wall, M. (2016). A lobed Argiope spider on its most eastern distribution – first record of Argiope lobata (Pallas, 1772) for the subfamily Argiopinae (Arachnida: Araneidae) in Mongolia. Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei 13: 179-184. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Loksa, I. (1972). Araneae II. Fauna Hungariae 109: 1-112. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mirshamsi, O. & Darvish, J. (2005). [First record of two Argiope species from Khorasan and Mazandaran Provinces (Araneae: Araneidae)]. Science Journal of University of Tehran 3: 403-412. 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

Pallas, P. S. (1772). Spicilegia zoologica. Tomus 1. Continens quadrupedium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, molluscorum aliorumque marinorum fasciculos decem. Berolini 1(9), 44-50. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1900a). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Arachnida. Taylor and Francis, London, 279 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.48423 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Rao, K. T., Bastawade, D. B., Javed, S. M. M. & Krishna, I. S. R. (2006b). Description of Argiope lobata Pallas (Araneae: Araneidae) from Nallamalai region, eastern Ghats, Andhra Pradesh, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 106(2): 51-54. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Risso, A. (1826). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale, et principalement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes maritimes. Paris 5, 159-176. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Scharff, N. & Coddington, J. A. (1997). A phylogenetic analysis of the orb-weaving spider family Araneidae (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 120(4): 355-434. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1997.tb01281.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1874a). Les arachnides de France. Paris 1, 1-272. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1884n). Arachnides recueillis en Birmanie par M. le chevalier J. B. Comotto et appartenant au Musée civique d'histoire naturelle de Gènes. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 20: 325-372. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1873). Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. Part IV. C. J. Lundström, Uppsala, pp. 375-645. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.69282 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. (1982a). Part 1. Family Araneidae (= Argiopidae). Typical orb-weavers. In: The fauna of India. Spiders: Araneae. Vol. II. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, pp. 1-293. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tiunov, A. V. & Esyunin, S. L. (2014). Orb-weaver spiders of the genus Argiope (Aranei, Araneidae) from Russia and Central Asia. Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal 93(11): 1316-1325. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Uhl, G., Nessler, S. H. & Schneider, J. M. (2010). Securing paternity in spiders? A review on occurrence and effects of mating plugs and male genital mutilation. Genetica 138: 75-104. 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

Yin, C. M., Wang, J. F., Zhu, M. S., Xie, L. P., Peng, X. J. & Bao, Y. H. (1997d). Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae. Science Press, Beijing, 460 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Date Type Reference Detail
2023-11-05 Species distribution update Jäger, 2012c n/a (Old value)
2023-07-05 New taxonomic reference entry Morano, 2023 n/a
2023-05-24 New taxonomic reference entry El-Hennawy, 2023a n/a
2022-10-29 New taxonomic reference entry Kosyan, 2022 n/a
2022-06-07 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022d n/a
2021-07-12 Species distribution update n/a (Old value)
2020-10-20 New taxonomic reference entry Kakhki & Darvish, 2002 n/a
2017-05-22 New taxonomic reference entry Lindecke & Wall, 2016 n/a
2016-12-11 New taxonomic reference entry Mirshamsi & Darvish, 2005 n/a
2015-02-02 New taxonomic reference entry Tiunov & Esyunin, 2014 n/a