Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Family |   ACCEPTED
Gen. Gibbaranea Archer, 1951 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01487
type Aranea bituberculata Walckenaer, 1802; gender feminine
N.B.: considered valid by Grasshoff, 1976: 148; Breitling, 2019b: 23 discusses Gibbaranea might be a subgenus of Araneus (based mainly on COI, see FAQ 7).

In synonymy:

Gibbaranea amuria (Bakhvalov, 1981, T from Araneus) = Gibbaranea abscissa (Karsch, 1879) (Marusik et al., 2015: 209)

Gibbaranea arbustorum (C. L. Koch, 1837) = Gibbaranea gibbosa (Walckenaer, 1802) (C. L. Koch, 1844: 92, sub Epeira bicornis)

Gibbaranea bicornis (Walckenaer, 1802) = Gibbaranea gibbosa (Walckenaer, 1802) (Simon, 1874a: 67, sub Epeira gibbosa)

Gibbaranea bituberculata cuculliger (Simon, 1909) = Gibbaranea bituberculata (Walckenaer, 1802) (Lissner & Bosmans, 2016: 29)

Gibbaranea bituberculata strandiana (Kolosváry, 1936) = Gibbaranea bituberculata (Walckenaer, 1802) (Breitling et al., 2016b: 59)

Gibbaranea canestrinii (Thorell, 1873, T from Araneus) = Gibbaranea bituberculata (Walckenaer, 1802) (Brignoli, 1983b: 564)

Gibbaranea gibbosa confinis (Simon, 1870) = Gibbaranea gibbosa (Walckenaer, 1802) (Wiehle, 1931a: 67, sub Aranea)

Gibbaranea melo (Krynicki, 1837, T from Araneus) = Gibbaranea bituberculata (Walckenaer, 1802) (Marusik, 1985b: 138)

Gibbaranea abscissa (Karsch, 1879) | | Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016118
Epeira abscissa Karsch, 1879g: 69 (Df) Original description
Aranea abscissa Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 225, pl. 11, f. 214 (f, Dm)
Araneus abscissa Saito, 1934b: 328
Atea abcissa Yaginuma & Archer, 1959: 40 (T from Araneus)
Araneus abscissa Saito, 1959: 85, f. 87a-b (f)
Araneus abscissus Yaginuma, 1960: 53, f. 49 (f, T from Atea)
Araneus abscissus Namkung, 1964: 37, f. 24 (f)
Araneus abscissus Yaginuma, 1971: 53, f. 49 (f)
Araneus abscissus Yaginuma, 1972a: 53, f. 17-18 (mf)
Araneus amurius Bakhvalov, 1981b: 142, f. 1 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014682]
Araneus abscissus Yaginuma, 1986a: 97, f. 51.3 (mf)
Araneus abscissus Song, 1987: 158, f. 119 (mf)
Araneus abscissus Zhu, Tu & Hu, 1988: 53, f. 1-3 (f)
Araneus abscissus Chikuni, 1989b: 67, f. 18 (mf)
Gibbaranea abscissus Yin et al., 1997d: 303, f. 210a-e (mf, T from Araneus)
Gibbaranea abscissus Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 282, f. 169E-G, N, Q (mf)
Gibbaranea abscissus Song, Zhu & Chen, 2001: 205, f. 123A-C (mf)
Gibbaranea abscissa Namkung, 2002: 257, f. 19.19a-b (mf)
Gibbaranea abscissus Kim & Kim, 2002: 208, f. 47, 128-129, 242-244 (mf)
Gibbaranea abscissa Namkung, 2003: 258, f. 19.18a-b (mf)
Gibbaranea abscissa Tanikawa, 2007c: 76, f. 210-211, 633-634 (mf)
Gibbaranea abscissa Tanikawa, 2009: 450, f. 212-213 (mf)
Gibbaranea abscissa Kim & Lee, 2012b: 75, f. 54A-C (mf)
Gibbaranea abscissa Marusik et al., 2015: 209, f. 10-16 (f, S of Araneus amurius)
Gibbaranea abscissa Zhang, Peng & Zhang, 2022: 109, f. 75A-C (f)
Gibbaranea bifida Guo, Zhang & Zhu, 2011 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044211
Gibbaranea bifida Guo, Zhang & Zhu, 2011c: 214, f. 6-8 (Dm) Original description
Gibbaranea bituberculata (Walckenaer, 1802) | | North Africa, Europe, Turkey, Israel, Russia (Europe to Far East), Caucasus, Iraq, Iran, Kazakhstan, Central Asia to China, Japan, India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016119 TYPE SPECIES
Aranea abdomine bicorni Lepechin, 1774: 245, pl. 16, f. 13 (f; unavailable trinomen)
Aranea bicornuta Martini & Goeze, 1778: 263 (D for species of Lepechin, 1774; nomen oblitum)
Aranea bicornis Gmelin, 1789: 2959 (D for species of Lepechin, 1774; nomen oblitum)
Aranea bituberculata Walckenaer, 1802: 191 (Df) Original description
Aranea dromaderia Walckenaer, 1802: 191 (Df)
Aranea albo-arcuata Panzer, 1804: 156, pl. 172, f. 7 (Df)
Epeira bituberculata Walckenaer, 1805: 58
Epeira dromaderia Walckenaer, 1805: 58
Epeira furcata Walckenaer, 1826: , pl. 9, f. 6 (Df)
Epeira lepechini Krynicki, 1837: 78 (Df)
Epeira melo Krynicki, 1837: 81 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065137]
Epeira dromaderia Walckenaer, 1841: 126 (Dm)
Epeira dromedaria C. L. Koch, 1844: 98, f. 906-907 (mf, in part)
Epeira bicornis Menge, 1866: 66, pl. 10, f. 13 (m)
Epeira ornata Canestrini, 1868c: 200 (Dm; preoccupied by Blackwall, 1850, see Araniella displicata)
Epeira canestrinii Thorell, 1873: 491, 549 (replacement name for E. ornata Canestrini, 1868) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014773]
Epeira dromedaria Menge, 1879: 560, pl. 91, f. 322 (m)
Epeira dromedaria Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1891: 129, pl. 5, f. 3 (mf)
Epeira dromedaria Becker, 1896: (2): 14, pl. 3, f. 1 (mf)
Epeira ullrichi Bösenberg, 1901: 28, pl. 1, f. 10 (Dmf)
Araneus dromedarius cuculliger Simon, 1909b: 25 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016120]
Epeira dromedaria O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1910: 111, pl. A, f. 15-17 (f)
Araneus dromedarius Lessert, 1910b: 309
Araneus bituberculatus Simon, 1929: 699, 765, f. 1088-1090 (mf)
Araneus ornatus Simon, 1929: 765
Aranea bituberculata Wiehle, 1931a: 61, f. 87-90 (mf)
Epeira dromedaria Reimoser, 1931b: 84, f. 1 (mf)
Aranea bituberculata strandiana Kolosváry, 1936a: 97, f. 16 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016121]
Aranea bituberculata Drensky, 1943: 241, f. 16 (mf)
Gibbaranea bituberculata Archer, 1951b: 4 (T from Araneus)
Gibbaranea dromedaria Archer, 1951c: 2, f. 3 (m)
Araneus bituberculatus Tullgren, 1952: 168, f. 13a-d (mf)
Araneus bituberculatus Locket & Millidge, 1953: 123, f. 80A, 81A, 82A (mf)
Araneus bituberculatus Yaginuma, 1969c: 81, f. 4-5 (f)
Araneus bituberculatus Tystshenko, 1971: 194, f. 568 (m)
Araneus bituberculatus Miller, 1971: 208, pl. XXXIX, f. 1-2 (mf)
Araneus bituberculatus Loksa, 1972: 76, f. 66A-E (mf)
Araneus bituberculatus Bakhvalov, 1974: 112, f. 98, 100, 102 (mf)
Araneus bituberculatus Palmgren, 1974a: 19, f. 8k-n (mf)
Araneus bituberculatus Punda, 1975b: 32, f. 41-42 (f)
Araneus bituberculatus Yaginuma, Yamaguchi & Nishikawa, 1976: 826, f. 4-5 (f)
Araneus bituberculatus Tikader & Bal, 1981: 51, f. 111-144 (f)
Araneus bituberculatus Tikader, 1982a: 231, f. 448-451 (f)
Gibbaranea bituberculata Brignoli, 1983b: 564 (S of Araneus canestrinii)
Gibbaranea bituberculata Roberts, 1985: 206, f. 92a (mf)
Gibbaranea bituberculata Marusik, 1985b: 138 (S of Araneus melo)
Araneus bituberculatus Hu & Wu, 1989: 86, f. 63.1-4 (f)
Gibbaranea bituberculata Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 82, f. 185 (mf)
Gibbaranea bituberculata Thaler, 1991b: 53, f. 31, 34-35 (m)
Gibbaranea bituberculata Roberts, 1995: 315, f. (mf)
Araneus bituberculatus Mcheidze, 1997: 268, f. 592-593 (m)
Gibbaranea bituberculata Yin et al., 1997d: 304, f. 211a-d (f)
Gibbaranea bituberculata Roberts, 1998: 329, f. (mf)
Gibbaranea bituberculata Levy, 1998a: 331, f. 80-87 (mf)
Gibbaranea bituberculata Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 282, f. 169H-J, R (f)
Gibbaranea bituberculata Hu, 2001: 458, f. 300.1-3 (f)
Gibbaranea bituberculata Almquist, 2006: 159, f. 167a-b (f)
Gibbaranea bituberculata Tanikawa, 2007c: 76, f. 212, 635-636 (mf)
Gibbaranea bituberculata Tanikawa, 2009: 450, f. 214-215 (mf)
Gibbaranea bituberculata Lissner & Bosmans, 2016: 29 (S of Gibbaranea bituberculata cuculliger)
Gibbaranea bituberculata Breitling et al., 2016b: 59 (S of Gibbaranea bituberculata strandiana)
Gibbaranea ullrichi Barrientos & Febrer, 2017: 12, f. 5c (f, misidentified per Barrientos & Febrer, 2018: 47)
Gibbaranea bituberculata Morano, 2023: 89, f. 66-68 (mf)
Gibbaranea bituberculata Rückl, 2023a: 5, f. 2, 4 (f)
Gibbaranea bituberculata Zamani, Khudhur & Marusik, 2024: 264, f. 1B, 3A-C (m)
Gibbaranea bituberculata Iwanaga, 2025: 79, f. E-F (f)
Gibbaranea bruuni Lissner, 2016 | | Portugal, Spain, Algeria, Tunisia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048661
Gibbaranea bruuni Lissner, in Lissner & Bosmans, 2016: 25, f. 1-2, 3a,d, 4a-b, 5a, 6-9c (Dmf) Original description
Gibbaranea ullrichi Barrientos & Febrer, 2017: 12, f. 5a-b (m, misidentified per Barrientos & Febrer, 2018: 47)
Gibbaranea gibbosa (Walckenaer, 1802) | | Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Iran urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016122
Aranea gibbosa Walckenaer, 1802: 190 (Df) Original description
Aranea bicornis Walckenaer, 1802: 190 (Df; preoccupied by Gmelin, 1789, see Gibbaranea bituberculata) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065138]
Epeira bicornis Walckenaer, 1805: 57
Epeira gibbosa Walckenaer, 1805: 57
Epeira arbustorum C. L. Koch, 1837b: 3 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065139]
Epeira bicornis Walckenaer, 1841: 124 (Dm)
Epeira bicornis C. L. Koch, 1844: 92, f. 902-903 (mf, S of Epeira arbustorum)
Epeira bicornis Blackwall, 1864a: 361, pl. 27, f. 260 (mf)
Epeira confinis Simon, 1870b: 307 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016123]
Epeira confinis Simon, 1873a: 169, pl. 3, f. 1 (m)
Epeira gibbosa Simon, 1874a: 67 (S of Epeira bicornis Walckenaer)
Epeira arbustorum Dahl, 1883: 28 (Dmf)
Epeira gibbosa Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1891: 129, pl. 5, f. 2 (f)
Epeira gibbosa Becker, 1896: (2): 16, pl. 3, f. 2 (mf)
Epeira gibbosa Bösenberg, 1901: 29, pl. 1, f. 11 (mf)
Araneus gibbosus Lessert, 1910b: 168
Araneus gibbosus Simon, 1929: 698, 764, f. 1085-1086 (mf)
Araneus gibbosus confinis Simon, 1929: 698, 764
Aranea gibbosa Wiehle, 1931a: 67, f. 99-102 (mf, S of Araneus gibbosus confinis)
Aranea gibbosa Drensky, 1943: 241, f. 18 (mf)
Gibbaranea gibbosa Archer, 1951b: 4, f. 6 (m, T from Araneus)
Araneus gibbosus Locket & Millidge, 1953: 124, f. 80B, 81B, 82B (mf)
Aranea gibbosa Zamaraev, 1964: 355, f. 46-48 (f)
Araneus gibbosus Tystshenko, 1971: 194, f. 573 (f)
Araneus gibbosus Miller, 1971: 208, pl. XXXIX, f. 21 (f)
Araneus gibbosus Loksa, 1972: 78, f. 67C (f)
Gibbaranea gibbosa Roberts, 1985: 206, f. 92b (mf)
Gibbaranea gibbosa Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 82, f. 184 (mf)
Gibbaranea gibbosa Roberts, 1995: 315, f. (mf)
Gibbaranea gibbosa Roberts, 1998: 329, f. (mf)
Gibbaranea gibbosa Almquist, 2006: 160, f. 168a-i (mf)
Gibbaranea gibbosa Lissner & Bosmans, 2016: 26, f. 3b, 5b (m)
Gibbaranea gibbosa Rückl, 2018: 4, f. 2-7 (m)
Gibbaranea gibbosa Breitling, 2020: 339, f. 4D-E (m)
Gibbaranea gibbosa Zamani, Österman & Koponen, 2022a: 23, f. 1-4 (m)
Gibbaranea gibbosa Morano, 2023: 90, f. 69-70 (mf)
Gibbaranea gibbosa confinis Morano, 2023: 90 (colour variant of gibbosa)
Gibbaranea gibbosa Seropian, Otto & Bulbulashvili, 2023: 151, f. 16-19, Suppl.: 2 f. (mf)
Gibbaranea hetian (Hu & Wu, 1989) | | Russia (South Siberia), China, Mongolia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016124
Araneus hetian Hu & Wu, 1989: 88, f. 65.1-6 (Dm) Original description
Gibbaranea hetian Marusik, 1992: 95 (T from Araneus)
Araneus hetian Yin et al., 1997d: 203, f. 121a-f (m)
Gibbaranea hetian Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 282, f. 169O-P, S (m)
Gibbaranea indiana Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2015 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048171
Gibbaranea indiana Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2015: 2, f. 1-8 (Df) Original description
Gibbaranea nanguosa Yin & Gong, 1996 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016125
Gibbaranea nanguosa Yin & Gong, 1996: 74, f. 12-16 (Df) Original description
Gibbaranea nanguosa Yin et al., 1997d: 305, f. 212a-e (f)
Gibbaranea nanguosa Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 282, f. 169K-M, 170A (f)
Gibbaranea nanguosa Yin et al., 2012: 688, f. 340a-e (f)
Gibbaranea occidentalis Wunderlich, 1989 | | Azores urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016126
Gibbaranea occidentalis Wunderlich, 1989: 205, f. 1-9 (Dmf) Original description
Gibbaranea occidentalis Wunderlich, 1992a: 367, f. 353-361 (mf)
Gibbaranea occidentalis Lissner & Bosmans, 2016: 26, f. 3c, 5c, 10-11d (m)
Gibbaranea omoeda (Thorell, 1870) | | Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016127
Epeira bicornis Westring, 1851: 35 (misidentified per Thorell, 1870a: 19)
Gibbaranea omoeda Roberts, 1998: 330, f. (mf)
Epeira omoeda Thorell, 1870a: 19 (new name for Epeira bicornis sensu Westring) Original description
Gibbaranea omoeda Almquist, 2006: 161, f. 169a-e (mf)
Epeira omoeda Hansen, 1882: 20, pl. 1, f. 35 (mf)
Gibbaranea omoeda Šestáková & Krumpál, 2013: 96, f. 1-6 (m)
Epeira omoeda Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1891: 129, pl. 5, f. 1 (mf)
Epeira omoeda Bösenberg, 1901: 27, pl. 1, f. 9 (mf)
Araneus omoedus Lessert, 1910b: 310
Araneus omoedus Simon, 1929: 699, 764, f. 1087-1088 (mf)
Aranea omoeda Wiehle, 1931a: 66, f. 96-98 (mf)
Araneus omoedus Saito, 1934b: 328, pl. 13, f. 24 (f)
Aranea omoeda Drensky, 1943: 241, f. 18 (mf)
Gibbaranea omoeda Archer, 1951b: 4 (T from Araneus)
Araneus omoedus Tullgren, 1952: 168, f. 14a-b (f)
Araneus omoeda Yaginuma, 1957a: 55, f. 19 (f)
Araneus omoeda Saito, 1959: 88, f. 97a-d (f)
Araneus omoedus Tystshenko, 1971: 194, f. 574 (f)
Araneus omoedus Miller, 1971: 208, pl. XXXIX, f. 20 (m)
Araneus omoedus Loksa, 1972: 78, f. 67A-B (mf)
Araneus omoedus Palmgren, 1974a: 19, f. 8f-j (mf)
Gibbaranea omoeda Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 84, f. 187 (mf)
Gibbaranea omoeda Thaler, 1991b: 53, f. 32-33 (m)
Gibbaranea omoeda Roberts, 1995: 316, f. (mf)
Gibbaranea tenerifensis Wunderlich, 1992 | | Canary Is. urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016128
Gibbaranea tenerifensis Wunderlich, 1992a: 367, f. 362-367 (Df) Original description
Gibbaranea ullrichi (Hahn, 1835) | | Europe to Central Asia, Pakistan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016129
Epeira ullrichii Hahn, 1835: 66, f. 159 (Dmf) Original description
Epeira dromedaria C. L. Koch, 1844: 98, f. 906-907 (mf; presumably misidentified per Simon, 1929: 765)
Epeira ullrichi Simon, 1874a: 64
Epeira ullrichi Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1891: 129, pl. 5, f. 4 (mf)
Araneus ullrichi Lessert, 1904: 363, pl. 5, f. 25 (f)
Araneus ullrichi Kulczyński, 1909b: 676, pl. 26, f. 19-20, 22 (m)
Araneus ullrichi Kulczyński, 1911a: 61, pl. 2 (f)
Araneus ullrichi Simon, 1929: 699, 765, f. 1091 (mf)
Aranea ullrichi Wiehle, 1931a: 64, f. 91-95 (mf)
Aranea ulrichi Drensky, 1943: 241, f. 18 (mf)
Gibbaranea ullrichi Archer, 1951b: 4 (T from Araneus)
Aranea ullrichi Zamaraev, 1964: 356, f. 49-50 (f)
Araneus ullrichi Azheganova, 1968: 79, f. 145, 163, 171 (mf)
Araneus ullrichi Tystshenko, 1971: 194, f. 569 (m)
Araneus ullrichi Miller, 1971: 208, pl. XXXIX, f. 3-4 (mf)
Araneus ullrichi Loksa, 1972: 77, f. 66F-H (mf)
Araneus ullrichi Bakhvalov, 1974: 112, f. 99, 101, 103 (mf)
Gibbaranea ullrichi Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 82, f. 186 (mf)
Araneus ullrichi Mcheidze, 1997: 269, f. 594-596 (mf)
Gibbaranea ullrichi van Helsdingen, 2010a: 6, f. 1-6 (m)
Gibbaranea ullrichi Fomichev, 2022c: 216, f. 18-20 (f)
Gibbaranea ullrichi Rückl, 2023a: 5, f. 1, 3, 5 (f)

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