Araniella
Araniella cucurbitina from Eckernförde, Germany
Araniella displicata from Woodbridge, Virginia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Araniella
Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942[1]
Type species
A. displicata
(Hentz, 1847)
Species

18, see text

Araniella is a genus of orb-weaver spiders (family Araneidae) first described by R. V. Chamberlin & Wilton Ivie in 1942.[2] The genus includes Araniella cucurbitina, the cucumber green spider.

Species

As of May 2023, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following 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

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Araniella Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  2. Chamberlin, R. V.; Ivie, W. (1942). "A hundred new species of American spiders". Bulletin of the University of Utah. 32 (13): 1–117.


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