Aculepeira ceropegia (Walckenaer, 1802)

Milano, Filippo, Mammola, Stefano, Rollard, Christine, Leccia, Marie-France & Isaia, Marco, 2019, An inventory of the spider species of Barcelonnette (France), with taxonomic notes on Piniphantes agnellus n. comb. (Araneae, Linyphiidae), Zoosystema 41 (4), pp. 29-58 : 34

Aculepeira ceropegia (Walckenaer, 1802) ( Fig. 3 )

MATERIAL. — La Salce, xeric grasslands, 1535 m, 01.VII.2017, Isaia, Mammola & Milano leg., 1 ♀, coll. MI ; Les Amoz, low vegetation, 1212 m, 01.VII.2017, Isaia, Mammola & Milano leg., 1 ♀, 1♂, MNHN ; La Salce, wet grasslands, 1514 m, 01.VII.2017, Isaia, Mammola & Milano leg., 3 ♀, coll. MI ; Les Allemands, ruderal areas, 1400 m, 01.VII.2017, Rollard leg., 2 ♀, 2 juv., MNHN ; Les Allemands, ruderal areas, 1455 m, 01.VII.2017, Rollard leg., 1 ♀, MNHN ; Ubaye river, river banks, 1120 m, 02.VII.2017, Milano leg., 2 ♀, coll. MI .

CHOROTYPE. — PAL.

MACROHABITAT. — Alpine grasslands, shrublands, wet grasslands, ruderal areas, riparian habitats.

Figures

FIG. 3. –– Aculepeira ceropegia (Walckenaer, 1802) (Araneidae). Average body length of the female: 13-15 mm. Photo credit: Anthony Turpaud, Parc national du Mercantour.