Taxon details


Neoscona arabesca (Walckenaer, 1841)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-07-19
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016694]
  • Distribution: North, Central America, Caribbean. Introduced to Nepal, China
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Taxonomic references
Epeira arabesca Walckenaer, 1841: 74 (Dmf).
Epeira trivittata Keyserling, 1864: 95, pl. 5, f. 6-9 (Df).
Epeira trivittata Emerton, 1884: 311, pl. 33, f. 16, pl. 36, f. 2-3, 5, 8 (f, Dm).
Epeira trivittata Keyserling, 1892: 172, pl. 8, f. 127 (f).
Epeira arabesca McCook, 1894: 148, pl. 1, f. 8, pl. 2, f. 6-7 (mf).
Epeira singularis Banks, 1898b: 252, pl. 15, f. 4 (Df).
Epeira trivittata Emerton, 1902: 166, f. 393-395 (mf).
Neoscona minima F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 471, pl. 44, f. 11,-2 (Dmf).
Neoscona arabesca F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 472, pl. 44, f. 13-14 (mf).
Epeira minima Banks, 1909a: 211.
Araneus arabesca Petrunkevitch, 1911: 279.
Araneus minimus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 303.
Araneus singularis Petrunkevitch, 1911: 316.
Neoscona minima Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936b: 20, f. 30.
Neoscona arabesca Comstock, 1940: 510, f. 527 (f).
Neoscona arabesca Muma, 1943: 97, pl. XIV, f. 2-3 (Tmf from Araneus).
Neoscona arabesca Kaston, 1948: 245, f. 750, 771-773, 775 (f).
Neoscona minima Kaston, 1948: 245, f. 751, 776 (f).
Neoscona arabesca Berman & Levi, 1971: 474, f. 1-3, 5-6, 8, 10, 14-42, 125-126 (mf, S).
Neoscona arabesca Barrion et al., 1988a: 389, f. 1a-g, 9a (f, probably misidentified).
Neoscona minima Barrion et al., 1988a: 392, f. 2a-g, 9b (f, probably misidentified).
Neoscona minima Barrion et al., 1988b: 250, f. 3, 4a-f (f, probably misidentified).
Neoscona arabesca Coddington, 1990: 14, f. 65 (m).
Neoscona arabesca Levi, 1991a: 180 (S).
Neoscona arabesca Breene et al., 1993: 106, f. 164A-C (mf).
Neoscona arabesca Levi, 1993a: 230, f. 14-17 (mf).
Neoscona arabesca Levi, 2002: 547, f. 193 (m).
Neoscona arabesca Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 49, f. 341-343 (mf).
Neoscona arabesca Dondale et al., 2003: 171, f. 363-371 (mf).
References

Banks, N. (1898b). Arachnida from Baja California and other parts of Mexico. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (3) 1(7): 205-309. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Banks, N. (1909a). Arachnida from Costa Rica. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 61: 194-234. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Barrion, A. A., Casal, C. V., Taylo, L. D. & Amalin, D. M. (1988b). Two orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Araneidae) in the Philippines causing araneidism. Philippine Journal of Science 116: 245-254. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Barrion, A. A., Barrion, A. T., Casal, C. V., Taylo, L. D. & Amalin, D. M. (1988a). The orb-weaving spiders genus Neoscona (Araneae: Araneidae) in the Philippines. The Philippine Agricultural Scientist 69: 385-409. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Berman, J. D. & Levi, H. W. (1971). The orb weaver genus Neoscona in North America (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 141(8): 465-500. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Breene, R. G., Dean, D. A., Nyffeler, M. & Edwards, G. B. (1993). Biology, Predation Ecology, and Significance of Spiders in Texas Cotton Ecosystems with a Key to Species. Texas Agriculture Experiment Station, College Station, 115 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Coddington, J. A. (1990). Ontogeny and homology in the male palpus of orb-weaving spiders and their relatives, with comments on phylogeny (Araneoclada: Araneoidea, Deinopoidea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 496: 1-52. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Comstock, J. H. (1940). The spider book, revised and edited by W. J. Gertsch. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, 727 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dondale, C. D., Redner, J. H., Paquin, P. & Levi, H. W. (2003). The insects and arachnids of Canada. Part 23. The orb-weaving spiders of Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Uloboridae, Tetragnathidae, Araneidae, Theridiosomatidae). NRC Research Press, Ottawa, 371 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1884). New England spiders of the family Epeiridae. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6: 295-342. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1902). The common spiders of the United States. Boston, 225 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.5617 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gertsch, W. J. & Mulaik, S. (1936b). New spiders from Texas. American Museum Novitates 863: 1-22. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kaston, B. J. (1948). Spiders of Connecticut. Bulletin of the Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey 70: 1-874. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1864). Beschreibungen neuer und wenig bekannter Arten aus der Familie Orbitelae Latr. oder Epeiridae Sund. Sitzungs-Berichte der naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Isis in Dresden 1863: 63-98, 119-154, pl. 1-7. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1892). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 4, 1-208. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1991a). The Neotropical and Mexican species of the orb-weaver genera Araneus, Dubiepeira, and Aculepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 152: 167-315. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1993a). American Neoscona and corrections to previous revisions of Neotropical orb-weavers (Araneae: Araneidae). Psyche, Cambridge 99(2-3, 1992): 221-239. doi:10.1155/1992/93912 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (2002). Keys to the genera of araneid orbweavers (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Americas. Journal of Arachnology 30(3): 527-562. doi:10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0527:KTTGOA]2.0.CO;2 download pdf -- Show included taxa

McCook, H. C. (1894). American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States with special regard to their industry and habits. Vol. III. Philadelphia, 285 pp., 30 pls. [for the year see p. 9] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.2681 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Muma, M. H. (1943). Common spiders of Maryland. Natural History Society of Maryland, Baltimore, 179 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Paquin, P. & Dupérré, N. (2003). Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Supplement 11: 1-251. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1904). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 465-560, pl. 44-51. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] 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

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2022-07-19 Species distribution update n/a (Old value)