Gibbaranea

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: Araneini
Genus: Gibbaranea
Species: G. abscissa – G. bifida – G. bituberculata – G. bruuni – G. gibbosa – G. hetian – G. indiana – G. nanguosa – G. occidentalis – G. omoeda – G. tenerifensis – G. ullrichi
Name

Gibbaranea Archer, 1951

Type species: Gibbaranea bituberculata Walckenaer, 1802
References
Primary references

Archer, A. F. 1951. Studies in the orbweaving spiders (Argiopidae). 2. American Museum Novitates 1502: 4.

Additional references

Guo, S.-T.; Zhang, F.; Zhu, M.-S. 2011: Two new species of the genera Araneus and Gibbaranea from Liupan Mountain, China (Araneae, Araneidae). Acta zootaxonomica sinica, 36(2): 213–217.
Roy, T.K., Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. 2015. A new Gibbaranea Archer, 1951 (Araneae: Araneidae) from West Bengal, India with a note on biogeography of the genus. Species 16(52): 1-5. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Links

Platnick, N. I. 2008. World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History.

Vernacular names
English: Gibbaranea

Gibbaranea is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Allan Frost Archer in 1951.[2]
Species

As of April 2019 it contains thirteen species:[1]

Gibbaranea abscissa (Karsch, 1879) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
Gibbaranea bifida Guo, Zhang & Zhu, 2011 – China
Gibbaranea bituberculata (Walckenaer, 1802) – Europe, Turkey, Israel, Russia (Europe to Far East), Central Asia to China, Japan, India
Gibbaranea bruuni Lissner, 2016 – Portugal, Spain, Algeria, Tunisia
Gibbaranea gibbosa (Walckenaer, 1802) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus
Gibbaranea g. confinis (Simon, 1870) – Spain, France (Corsica)
Gibbaranea hetian (Hu & Wu, 1989) – Russia (South Siberia), China, Mongolia
Gibbaranea indiana Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2015 – India
Gibbaranea nanguosa Yin & Gong, 1996 – China
Gibbaranea occidentalis Wunderlich, 1989 – Azores
Gibbaranea omoeda (Thorell, 1870) – Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), Japan
Gibbaranea tenerifensis Wunderlich, 1992 – Canary Is.
Gibbaranea ullrichi (Hahn, 1835) – Europe to Central Asia

References

"Gen. Gibbaranea Archer, 1951". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
Archer, A. F. (1951). "Studies in the orbweaving spiders (Argiopidae). 2". American Museum Novitates (1502): 1–34.