Araniella

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Araneidae
Subfamilia: Araneinae
Tribus: Cyclosini
Genus: Araniella
Species: A. alpica – A. coreana – A. cucurbitina – A. displicata – A. inconspicua – A. jilinensis – A. maderiana – A. mithra – A. nigromaculata – A. opisthographa – A. plicata – A. proxima – A. villanii – A. yaginumai
Name

Araniella Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942

Type species: Epeira displicata Hentz, 1847
References

Blanke, R. 1982: Untersuchungen zur Taxonomie der Gattung Araniella (Araneae, Araneidae). Zoologica scripta, 11(4): 287–305. [in German, with English abstract] DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1982.tb00540.x
Chamberlin, R. V. & W. Ivie. 1942. A hundred new species of American spiders. Bull. Univ. Utah 32(13): 76.
Levi, H.W. 1974: The orb-weaver genera Araniella and Nuctenea (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 146: 291–316. BHL
Sacher, P. 1984: Bemerkungen zum Material der Gattung Araniella CHAMBERLIN & IVIE, 1942 aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum Wien (Arachnida, Araneidae). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien (B), 86: 243–249. PDF
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. Reference page.
Tanikawa, A. 1995: A revision of the Japanese spiders of the genus Araniella (Araneae: Araneidae). Acta arachnologica, 44(1): 51–60. DOI: 10.2476/asjaa.44.51 PDF
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. Open access. Reference page.

Links

Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Vernacular names
Deutsch: Kürbisspinnen
한국어: 꽃왕거미속

Araniella is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by R. V. Chamberlin & Wilton Ivie in 1942.[2]
Species

As of November 2021 it contains twelve species:[1]

Araniella alpica (L. Koch, 1869) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Western Siberia), Iran?
Araniella coreana Namkung, 2002 – Korea
Araniella cucurbitina (Clerck, 1757) – Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe) to Central Asia, China, Korea
Araniella displicata (Hentz, 1847) – North America, Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, China, Korea, Japan
Araniella inconspicua (Simon, 1874) – Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to Far East), Central Asia, China, Iran?
Araniella jilinensis Yin & Zhu, 1994 – China
Araniella levii Zamani & Marusik, 2020 – India
Araniella maasdorpi Zamani & Marusik, 2020 – India
Araniella maderiana (Kulczyński, 1905) – Canary Is., Madeira
Araniella mithra Zamani, Marusik & Šestáková, 2020 – Iran
Araniella nigromaculata (Schenkel, 1963) – China
Araniella nympha (Simon, 1889) – Pakistan, India, China
Araniella opisthographa (Kulczyński, 1905) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe) to Central Asia, Iran
Araniella plicata Mi & Peng, 2016 – China
Araniella proxima (Kulczyński, 1885) – North America, Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), Turkey, Kazakhstan
Araniella robusta Lee, Yoo & Kim, 2021 – Korea
Araniella villanii Zamani, Marusik & Šestáková, 2020 – Iran, Kazakhstan, India
Araniella yaginumai Tanikawa, 1995 – Russia (South Siberia to Far East), Korea, China, Taiwan, Japan

References

"Gen. Araniella Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
Chamberlin, R. V.; Ivie, W. (1942). "A hundred new species of American spiders". Bulletin of the University of Utah. 32 (13): 1–117.