Araniella nigromaculata (Schenkel, 1963) Zamani & Marusik & Šestáková, 2020

Zamani, Alireza, Marusik, Yuri M. & Sestakova, Anna, 2020, On Araniella and Neoscona (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Caucasus, Middle East and Central Asia, ZooKeys 906, pp. 13-40 : 13

Araniella nigromaculata (Schenkel, 1963) comb. nov. Figs 1E , 8E

Araneus nigromaculatus Schenkel, 1963: 154, fig. 91a-c (♀).

Araneus nigromaculatus : Yin et al. 1997: 204, fig. 122a-c (♀); Song et al. 1999: 240, fig. 139e, f, 148l (♀).

Comments.

The female holotype was collected in southern Gansu (ca. 33°40'N, 104°20'E), north-central China. Figures of Yin et al. (1997) and Song et al. (1999) are reproduced after Schenkel (1963). The holotype (in Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris) was examined in 1980 by Yuri Marusik and illustrated, but no data have been copied from the label. Abdominal pattern and shape of epigyne indicates its belonging to Araniella and therefore we provide a new combination.

Figures

Figure 1. Dorsal habitus of Araniella mithra sp. nov. (A, C) and A. villanii sp. nov. (B, D) and abdomen of A. nigromaculata (E). A, B Males C, D females. Blue triangles point on black dots on opisthosoma. Scale bars: 1 mm.

Figure 8. Posterior view of epigynes of Araniella villanii sp. nov. (A), A. proxima (B), A. mithra sp. nov. (C), A. opisthographa (D) and A. nigromaculata (E). Scale bars: 0.2 mm.