Genus Araneus Clerck, 1757

Type species.

Araneus angulatus Clerck, 1757.

Comments.

Although the three new Araneus species in this paper differ greatly from the type species A. angulatus in both somatic and copulatory organs, they are placed in Araneus provisionally until a phylogenetic analysis is conducted. The three new species, along with A. bidentatus Mi & Li, 2022, A. bidentatoides Mi & Li, 2022, and A. semiorbiculatus Mi & Li, 2022, show some common somatic characters, such as a more or less dark brown carapace, eyes with black bases, an abdomen that is longer than wide, a female abdomen with at least a pair of low humps; these characters indicate these species must be closely related, although their copulatory organs differ.