Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Family |   ACCEPTED

N.B.: family name and authorship as per ICZN, 2009 Opinion 2224, after application by Kluge, 2007; Arkyinae L. Koch, 1872 (genera Arkys Walckenaer, 1837 and Demadiana Strand, 1929) elevated to Arkyidae by Dimitrov et al., 2017: 244; monophyly of Araneidae stated by Kallal et al., 2018: 138; Nephilinae Simon, 1894 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0111] elevated to family and relimited by Kuntner, 2006: 24, re-synonymized with Araneidae by Dimitrov et al., 2017: 244; Nephilinae and Phonognathinae Simon, 1894 (Simon, 1894a: 746 as Phonognatheae), the valid name for Zygiellinae Simon, 1929 sensu Wunderlich, 2004f, elevated to family by Kuntner et al., 2019: 563, not accepted by Scharff et al., 2020 and Kallal et al., 2020, and confirmed as family by Kuntner et al., 2023: 969-970 along with the separation of Paraplectanoididae Kuntner, Coddington, Agnarsson & Bond, 2023; Nephilinae and Phonognathinae downgraded to subfamily and Paraplectanoididae considered a synonym of Araneidae by Hormiga et al., 2023: 803; family status of Paraplectanoididae, Nephilidae and Phonognathidae revalidated by Kuntner et al., 2025: 17, 23, but not accepted here for reasons of stability; Oarcinae (Gnolus and Oarces) transferred from the Mimetidae to the Araneidae by Dimitrov et al., 2012: Suppl. 1, p. 15, re-transfer to the Mimetidae by Eskov & Marusik, 2023: 340 not accepted here (by majority vote of the WSC boards); Eskov & Marusik, 2023: 241 and Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 52 consider Zygiellidae as the valid name instead of Phonognathidae and accept the family status of Nephilidae; the status of the Nephilinae and Phonognathinae (= Zygiellidae) as subfamilies is accepted by majority vote of the WSC boards; Eskov & Marusik, 2024: 52 list ten subfamilies and tribes as valid (besides Nephilidae and Zygiellidae): Araneinae, Argiopinae Simon, 1890a: 81 (sub Argiopidae), Cyrtarachninae Simon, 1895a: 876 (sub Cyrtarachneae), Сyrtophorinae Simon, 1895a: 876 (sub Cyrtophoreae), Gasteracanthinae O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871e: 217 (sub Gasteracanthides), Micratheninae Simon, 1895a: 848 (sub Micratheneae), Guizygiellinae Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003: 42, Caerostrini Simon, 1895a: 831 (sub Cerostreae), Hypognathini Simon, 1895a: 871 (sub Hypognatheae) and Poltyini Simon, 1895a: 888 (sub Poltyeae).

In synonymy:

Afraranea Archer, 1951 = Neoscona Simon, 1864 (Grasshoff, 1986: 4, as a subgenus of Neoscona)

Chinestela Chamberlin, 1924 = Neoscona Simon, 1864 (Archer, 1958: 17)

Cubanella Franganillo, 1926 = Neoscona Simon, 1864 (Franganillo, 1936c: 76)

Gen. Neoscona Simon, 1864 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01529
type Epeira arabesca Walckenaer, 1841; gender feminine
N.B.: type species fixed by F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 466; listed by Roewer as a synonym of Araneus Clerck, 1757, but accepted by all recent authors; considered a senior synonym of Chinestela Chamberlin, 1924a: 20 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05291] (type C. gisti Chamberlin, 1924 = Neoscona scylla (Karsch, 1879)) by Archer, 1958: 17, of Cubanella Franganillo, 1926a: 54 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05292] (type C. nidicola Franganillo, 1926 = Neoscona moreli (Vinson, 1863)) by Franganillo, 1936c: 76 (by transfer of the type species), of Afraranea Archer, 1951a: 21 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05215] (type Araneus sanguipes Thorell, 1899; but based on a misidentification by Archer of N. penicillipes) but not of Eriovixia Archer, 1951 (contra Berman & Levi, 1971: 469) by Grasshoff, 1986: 4.

Transferred to other genera:

Neoscona chasisa Zhu & Song, 1994 -- see Araneus

Neoscona enshiensis Yin & Zhao, 1994 -- see Eriovixia

Neoscona excelsus (Simon, 1889) -- see Eriovixia

Neoscona flexuosa (Lessert, 1930) -- see Araneus

Neoscona fuscocolorata (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) -- see Alenatea

Neoscona hainanensis Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 -- see Eriovixia

Neoscona laglaizei (Simon, 1877) -- see Eriovixia

Neoscona lotan Levy, 2007 -- see Siwa

Neoscona menglunensis Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 -- see Eriovixia

Neoscona modesta (Simon, 1890) -- see Agalenatea

Neoscona nidificans (Hingston, 1932) -- see Eriophora

Neoscona orientalis (Urquhart, 1887) -- see Courtaraneus

Neoscona poonaensis Tikader & Bal, 1981 -- see Eriovixia

Neoscona redempta (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936) -- see Ocrepeira

Neoscona rhinura (Pocock, 1899) -- see Eriovixia

Neoscona variabilis (Keyserling, 1863) -- see Alpaida

Neoscona yunnanensis Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 -- see Eriovixia

In synonymy:

Neoscona aballensis albozonata (Caporiacco, 1941, T from Araneus) = Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Grasshoff, 1986: 15)

Neoscona aballensis angustifolia (Caporiacco, 1941, T from Araneus) = Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Grasshoff, 1986: 15)

Neoscona aballensis bimaculata (Caporiacco, 1941, T from Araneus) = Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Grasshoff, 1986: 15)

Neoscona aballensis foliata (Caporiacco, 1941, T from Araneus) = Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Grasshoff, 1986: 15)

Neoscona aballensis nigricans (Caporiacco, 1941, T from Araneus) = Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Grasshoff, 1986: 15)

Neoscona aballensis subconcolor (Caporiacco, 1941, T from Araneus) = Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Grasshoff, 1986: 15)

Neoscona accentuata (Thorell, 1899, T from Araneus) = Neoscona chiarinii (Pavesi, 1883) (Grasshoff, 1986: 42)

Neoscona adianta japonica (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) = Neoscona adianta (Walckenaer, 1802) (Tanikawa, 1998b: 140)

Neoscona adiantoides (Taczanowski, 1878, T from Araneus) = Neoscona oaxacensis (Keyserling, 1864) (Berman & Levi, 1971: 486)

Neoscona airensis (Denis, 1955, T from Araneus) = Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Grasshoff, 1986: 15)

Neoscona albertisi (Thorell, 1887) = Neoscona enucleata (Karsch, 1879) (Thorell, 1895b: 174, sub Epeira)

Neoscona albobitriangulosa Caporiacco, 1939 = Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Grasshoff, 1986: 15)

Neoscona alternidens (Schenkel, 1936, T from Araneus) = Neoscona vigilans (Blackwall, 1865) (Grasshoff, 1986: 95)

Neoscona amulensis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904 = Neoscona orizabensis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904 (Berman & Levi, 1971: 484)

Neoscona annulata (Lenz, 1891, T from Araneus) = Neoscona triangula (Keyserling, 1864) (Grasshoff, 1980: 398, sub Afraranea)

Neoscona annulella (Strand, 1907, T from Araneus) = Neoscona triangula (Keyserling, 1864) (Grasshoff, 1980: 398, sub Afraranea)

Neoscona annulipedata (Roewer, 1942, T from Araneus) = Neoscona theisi (Walckenaer, 1841) (Pocock, 1898i: 324)

Neoscona arganicola (Simon, 1909, T from Araneus) = Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Bosmans & Hervé, 2021: 58)

Neoscona arkansa Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 = Neoscona crucifera (Lucas, 1838) (Berman & Levi, 1971: 480, sub Neocona hentzi)

Neoscona artifex (Tullgren, 1910) = Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Grasshoff, 1980: 406)

Neoscona bertkaui (Keyserling, 1890) = Neoscona maculaticeps (L. Koch, 1871) (Berland, 1929b: 63, sub Araneus)

Neoscona bettoni (Pocock, 1898, T from Araneus) = Neoscona blondeli (Simon, 1886) (Grasshoff, 1986: 36)

Neoscona bioculata (Thorell, 1899, T from Araneus) = Neoscona penicillipes (Karsch, 1879) (Grasshoff, 1986: 78)

Neoscona blanda (Blackwall, 1865, T from Araneus) = Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Grasshoff, 1986: 15)

Neoscona cerviniventris (Simon, 1884, T from Araneus) = Neoscona triangula (Keyserling, 1864) (Grasshoff, 1980: 397, sub Afraranea)

Neoscona conifera F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904 = Neoscona oaxacensis (Keyserling, 1864) (Berman & Levi, 1971: 488)

Neoscona cooksoni (Butler, 1877, T from Araneus) = Neoscona oaxacensis (Keyserling, 1864) (Berman & Levi, 1971: 486)

Neoscona crucifera albimaculata (Strand, 1908, T from Araneus) = Neoscona crucifera (Lucas, 1838) (Grasshoff, 1986: 62)

Neoscona crucifera ladislausi (Strand, 1908, T from Araneus) = Neoscona crucifera (Lucas, 1838) (Grasshoff, 1986: 62)

Neoscona crucifera ochroleucella (Strand, 1908, T from Araneus) = Neoscona crucifera (Lucas, 1838) (Grasshoff, 1986: 62)

Neoscona crucifera pyramidella (Strand, 1908, T from Araneus) = Neoscona crucifera (Lucas, 1838) (Grasshoff, 1986: 62)

Neoscona cruciferoides (Tullgren, 1910) = Neoscona triangula (Keyserling, 1864) (Grasshoff, 1980: 398, sub Afraranea)

Neoscona danensis (Strand, 1906) = Neoscona triangula (Keyserling, 1864) (Grasshoff, 1986: 84)

Neoscona distincta (Rainbow, 1897) = Neoscona theisi (Walckenaer, 1841) (Pocock, 1898i: 324, sub Araneus theis)

Neoscona doenitzi (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) = Neoscona adianta (Walckenaer, 1802) (Grasshoff, 1986: 118)

Neoscona dripaca Roberts, 1983 = Neoscona angulatula (Schenkel, 1937) (Grasshoff, 1986: 106)

Neoscona edwardiana (Strand, 1913, T from Araneus) = Neoscona alberti (Strand, 1913) (Grasshoff, 1986: 51)

Neoscona eximia Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936 = Neoscona utahana (Chamberlin, 1919) (Berman & Levi, 1971: 485)

Neoscona fernandensis (Simon, 1907, T from Araneus) = Neoscona triangula (Keyserling, 1864) (Grasshoff, 1986: 84)

Neoscona flavescens X. X. Zhang & F. Zhang, 2011 = Neoscona nautica (L. Koch, 1875) (Mi, Wang & Li, 2024: 306)

Neoscona formicae (Tullgren, 1910, T from Araneus) = Neoscona triangula (Keyserling, 1864) (Grasshoff, 1986: 84)

Neoscona gerhardti (Caporiacco, 1949, T from Araneus) = Neoscona blondeli (Simon, 1886) (Grasshoff, 1986: 36)

Neoscona gisti (Chamberlin, 1924) = Neoscona scylla (Karsch, 1879) (Song, 1988: 129)

Neoscona granatae (Caporiacco, 1941, T from Araneus) = Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Grasshoff, 1986: 15)

Neoscona griseomaculatus Yin & Wang, 1982 = Neoscona elliptica Tikader & Bal, 1981 (Yin et al., 1997d: 347)

Neoscona haematocnemis (Pocock, 1900) = Neoscona penicillipes (Karsch, 1879) (Grasshoff, 1986: 78)

Neoscona haploscapus (Pocock, 1898, T from Araneus) = Neoscona triangula (Keyserling, 1864) (Grasshoff, 1986: 84)

Neoscona hentzi (Keyserling, 1864) = Neoscona crucifera (Lucas, 1838) (Grasshoff, 1986: 62)

Neoscona hoffmanni (Schenkel, 1937, T from Araneus) = Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Grasshoff, 1986: 15)

Neoscona hoggi (Rainbow, 1897) = Neoscona theisi (Walckenaer, 1841) (Pocock, 1898i: 324, sub Araneus theis)

Neoscona immodesta Caporiacco, 1941 = Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Caporiacco, 1949a: 416, sub N. submodesta neumanni)

Neoscona irritans Caporiacco, 1947 = Neoscona vigilans (Blackwall, 1865) (Grasshoff, 1986: 95)

Neoscona jonesi Archer, 1951 = Neoscona utahana (Chamberlin, 1919) (Berman & Levi, 1971: 485)

Neoscona katangae (Giltay, 1935, T from Araneus) = Neoscona triangula (Keyserling, 1864) (Grasshoff, 1986: 84)

Neoscona kersteni (Gerstaecker, 1873) = Neoscona triangula (Keyserling, 1864) (Grasshoff, 1986: 84)

Neoscona kibonotensis (Tullgren, 1910, T from Araneus) = Neoscona triangula (Keyserling, 1864) (Grasshoff, 1980: 398, sub Afraranea)

Neoscona koratsensis (Dönitz & Strand, 1906, T from Araneus) = Neoscona nautica (L. Koch, 1875) (Yaginuma, 1955a: 17)

Neoscona lambarenensis (Simon, 1907, T from Araneus) = Neoscona rapta (Thorell, 1899) (Grasshoff, 1986: 100)

Neoscona lanuginosa (Lenz, 1886, T from Araneus) = Neoscona moreli (Vinson, 1863) (Grasshoff, 1986: 56)

Neoscona lapillula (Simon, 1907, T from Araneus) = Neoscona chiarinii (Pavesi, 1883) (Grasshoff, 1986: 42)

Neoscona larbada Roberts, 1983 = Neoscona triangula (Keyserling, 1864) (Grasshoff, 1986: 84)

Neoscona lativulva Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 = Neoscona oaxacensis (Keyserling, 1864) (Berman & Levi, 1971: 488)

Neoscona leimenstolli (Strand, 1906, T from Araneus) = Neoscona penicillipes (Karsch, 1879) (Grasshoff, 1986: 78)

Neoscona lentiginosa (Blackwall, 1862) = Neoscona crucifera (Lucas, 1838) (Kulczyński, 1899: 394, sub Epeira)

Neoscona locuples (Butler, 1880, T from Araneus) = Neoscona triangula (Keyserling, 1864) (Grasshoff, 1986: 84)

Neoscona marcuzzii (Caporiacco, 1955, T from Araneus) = Neoscona nautica (L. Koch, 1875) (Berman & Levi, 1971: 498)

Neoscona marshalli (Pocock, 1898, T from Araneus) = Neoscona vigilans (Blackwall, 1865) (Grasshoff, 1986: 95)

Neoscona melanopa (Gerstaecker, 1873, T from Araneus) = Neoscona triangula (Keyserling, 1864) (Grasshoff, 1986: 84)

Neoscona mensamontis (Pocock, 1900, T from Araneus) = Neoscona hirta (C. L. Koch, 1844) (Grasshoff, 1986: 91)

Neoscona mesonauta (Simon, 1907, T from Araneus) = Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Grasshoff, 1986: 15)

Neoscona mimula (L. Koch, 1882) = Neoscona adianta (Walckenaer, 1802) (Simon, 1929: 762, sub Araneus)

Neoscona minima F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904 = Neoscona arabesca (Walckenaer, 1841) (Berman & Levi, 1971: 476)

Neoscona minoriscylla Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 = Neoscona multiplicans (Chamberlin, 1924) (Song, Chen & Zhu, 1997: 1715)

Neoscona mutilata (Caporiacco, 1947, T from Araneus) = Neoscona chiarinii (Pavesi, 1883) (Grasshoff, 1986: 42)

Neoscona naiba Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1929 = Neoscona oaxacensis (Keyserling, 1864) (Levi, 1973: 478)

Neoscona nebraskensis Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 = Neoscona crucifera (Lucas, 1838) (Berman & Levi, 1971: 480, sub Neocona hentzi)

Neoscona neotheis (Petrunkevitch, 1911) = Neoscona moreli (Vinson, 1863) (Grasshoff, 1986: 56)

Neoscona nidicola (Franganillo, 1926) = Neoscona moreli (Vinson, 1863) (Berman & Levi, 1971: 490, sub Neoscona neotheis)

Neoscona nigrita (Thorell, 1899, T from Araneus) = Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Grasshoff, 1986: 15)

Neoscona nigrostriatus (Caporiacco, 1947, T from Araneus) = Neoscona triangula (Keyserling, 1864) (Grasshoff, 1980: 398, sub Afraranea)

Neoscona nigrostriatus nigrovittatus (Caporiacco, 1947, T from Araneus) = Neoscona triangula (Keyserling, 1864) (Grasshoff, 1980: 398, sub Afraranea)

Neoscona nocturna (Vinson, 1863, T from Araneus) = Neoscona triangula (Keyserling, 1864) (Grasshoff, 1980: 397, sub Afraranea)

Neoscona nocturnella (Roewer, 1942, T from Araneus) = Neoscona triangula (Keyserling, 1864) (Grasshoff, 1980: 397, sub Afraranea)

Neoscona obscura (Blackwall, 1877, T from Araneus) = Neoscona triangula (Keyserling, 1864) (Grasshoff, 1980: 397, sub Afraranea)

Neoscona occidanea (Simon, 1907, T from Araneus) = Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Grasshoff, 1986: 15)

Neoscona opima (L. Koch, 1878) = Neoscona punctigera (Doleschall, 1857) (Yaginuma, 1967b: 89, sub Araneus lugubris)

Neoscona pachana (Pocock, 1898, T from Araneus) = Neoscona penicillipes (Karsch, 1879) (Grasshoff, 1986: 78)

Neoscona parascylla (Schenkel, 1963, T from Araneus) = Neoscona punctigera (Doleschall, 1857) (Grasshoff, 1986: 117)

Neoscona parva Schmidt, 1973 = Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Grasshoff, 1986: 15)

Neoscona perplicata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) = Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Levy, 1998a: 336)

Neoscona pictilis (C. L. Koch, 1837, T from Miranda) = Neoscona adianta (Walckenaer, 1802) (Walckenaer, 1841: 52, sub Epeira)

Neoscona platyparomma Caporiacco, 1939 = Neoscona triangula (Keyserling, 1864) (Grasshoff, 1986: 84)

Neoscona polyspinipes Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 = Neoscona nautica (L. Koch, 1875) (Mi, Wang & Li, 2024: 306)

Neoscona potteri (Simon, 1901, T from Araneus) = Neoscona chiarinii (Pavesi, 1883) (Grasshoff, 1986: 42)

Neoscona recta (Franganillo, 1930) = Neoscona moreli (Vinson, 1863) (Berman & Levi, 1971: 491, sub Neoscona neotheis)

Neoscona restiaria (Tullgren, 1910, T from Araneus) = Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Grasshoff, 1986: 15)

Neoscona restiaria obscura (Tullgren, 1910, T from Araneus) = Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Grasshoff, 1986: 15)

Neoscona rufofemorata (Simon, 1884, T from Afraranea) = Neoscona vigilans (Blackwall, 1865) (Grasshoff, 1986: 95)

Neoscona salaeria Chamberlin, 1920 = Neoscona oaxacensis (Keyserling, 1864) (Berman & Levi, 1971: 488)

Neoscona sanguipes antepicta (Strand, 1913, T from Araneus) = Neoscona penicillipes (Karsch, 1879) (Grasshoff, 1986: 78)

Neoscona sanguipes constrictifascia (Strand, 1913, T from Araneus) = Neoscona penicillipes (Karsch, 1879) (Grasshoff, 1986: 78)

Neoscona sanguipes decoratella (Strand, 1913, T from Araneus) = Neoscona penicillipes (Karsch, 1879) (Grasshoff, 1986: 78)

Neoscona sanguipes indistinctepicta (Strand, 1913, T from Araneus) = Neoscona penicillipes (Karsch, 1879) (Grasshoff, 1986: 78)

Neoscona sanguipes lanceolatella (Strand, 1913, T from Araneus) = Neoscona penicillipes (Karsch, 1879) (Grasshoff, 1986: 78)

Neoscona sanguipes monotonia (Strand, 1913, T from Araneus) = Neoscona penicillipes (Karsch, 1879) (Grasshoff, 1986: 78)

Neoscona sanguipes nigrofoliata (Strand, 1913, T from Araneus) = Neoscona penicillipes (Karsch, 1879) (Grasshoff, 1986: 78)

Neoscona sanguipes recurvata (Strand, 1913, T from Araneus) = Neoscona penicillipes (Karsch, 1879) (Grasshoff, 1986: 78)

Neoscona scylla nigromaculata (Yaginuma, 1941, T from Araneus) = Neoscona scylla (Karsch, 1879) (Nishikawa, 1977c: 32)

Neoscona seca Roberts, 1983 = Neoscona moreli (Vinson, 1863) (Grasshoff, 1986: 56)

Neoscona semiannulata (Karsch, 1879) = Neoscona rufipalpis (Lucas, 1858) (Lessert, 1930: 644, sub Araneus)

Neoscona singularis (Banks, 1898, T from Araneus) = Neoscona arabesca (Walckenaer, 1841) (Levi, 1991a: 180)

Neoscona slateri (Butler, 1880, T from Araneus) = Neoscona punctigera (Doleschall, 1857) (Grasshoff, 1980: 403, sub Afraranea)

Neoscona sodom Levy, 1998 = Neoscona theisi (Walckenaer, 1841) (Zamani, Marusik & Šestáková, 2020: 36)

Neoscona soronis (Thorell, 1890) = Neoscona enucleata (Karsch, 1879) (Thorell, 1895b: 174, sub Epeira)

Neoscona speciosissima (Roewer, 1942, T from Araneus) = Neoscona theisi (Walckenaer, 1841) (Pocock, 1898i: 324)

Neoscona spenceri (Pocock, 1898, T from Araneus) = Neoscona vigilans (Blackwall, 1865) (Grasshoff, 1986: 95)

Neoscona subbituberculata (Thorell, 1899, T from Araneus) = Neoscona triangula (Keyserling, 1864) (Grasshoff, 1986: 84)

Neoscona submodesta (Strand, 1906, T from Araneus) = Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Grasshoff, 1986: 15)

Neoscona taruensis (Pocock, 1898, T from Araneus) = Neoscona blondeli (Simon, 1886) (Grasshoff, 1986: 36)

Neoscona temeraria (Tullgren, 1910, T from Araneus) = Neoscona vigilans (Blackwall, 1865) (Grasshoff, 1986: 95)

Neoscona theisi feisiana (Strand, 1911) = Neoscona theisi (Walckenaer, 1841) (Nentwig et al., 2019: 34)

Neoscona triangula mensamontella (Strand, 1907) = Neoscona triangula (Keyserling, 1864) (Nentwig et al., 2019: 32)

Neoscona triangulata (Franganillo, 1913) = Neoscona adianta (Walckenaer, 1802) (Simon, 1929: 762, sub Araneus)

Neoscona tristimoniae (Petrunkevitch, 1911, T from Araneus) = Neoscona nautica (L. Koch, 1875) (Berman & Levi, 1971: 498)

Neoscona trivittata (Keyserling, 1864) = Neoscona arabesca (Walckenaer, 1841) (McCook, 1894: 148, sub Epeira)

Neoscona tuckeri Caporiacco, 1949 = Neoscona alberti (Strand, 1913) (Grasshoff, 1986: 51)

Neoscona tullgreni (Caporiacco, 1947, T from Araneus) = Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Grasshoff, 1986: 15)

Neoscona tullgreni obscuratus (Caporiacco, 1947, T from Araneus) = Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Grasshoff, 1986: 15)

Neoscona turcica (Simon, 1879) = Neoscona byzanthina (Pavesi, 1876) (Simon, 1885c: 328, sub Epeira)

Neoscona varians (Thorell, 1899, T from Araneus) = Neoscona penicillipes (Karsch, 1879) (Grasshoff, 1986: 78)

Neoscona vertebrata (McCook, 1888, T from Epeira) = Neoscona oaxacensis (Keyserling, 1864) (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 468)

Neoscona weyersi (Simon, 1885) = Neoscona inusta (L. Koch, 1871) (Thorell, 1890a: 152, sub Epeira)

Neoscona wiehlei Caporiacco, 1949 = Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Grasshoff, 1986: 15)

Neoscona xiquanensis Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, 2013 = Neoscona vigilans (Blackwall, 1865) (Mi, Wang & Li, 2024: 308)

Neoscona xizangensis Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 = Neoscona achine (Simon, 1906) (Yin et al., 1997d: 364)

Homonyms replaced:

Neoscona cruciferoides (Spassky, 1952) -- see Neoscona spasskyi Brignoli, 1983 Brignoli, 1983c

Neoscona nigrita fernandensis (Simon, 1907) -- see Neoscona simoni Grasshoff, 1986

Nomina dubia:

Neoscona benjamina (Walckenaer, 1841: 42, f, USA, originally in Epeira) -- Berman & Levi, 1971: 477

Neoscona bomdilaensis B. Biswas & K. Biswas, 2006: 511, f. 7-10 (f, India) -- Sherwood & Caleb, 2024: 114

Neoscona mutabilis (Walckenaer, 1841: 73, f, USA, originally in Epeira) -- Berman & Levi, 1971: 480

Neoscona nigrovariata Mello-Leitão, 1941b: 258 (f, Colombia) -- Levi, 1993a: 224

Neoscona paralela Franganillo, 1931d: 44 (f, Cuba) -- Roewer, 1955c: 1599

Neoscona rubicunda (Walckenaer, 1841: 43, f, USA, originally in Epeira) -- Berman & Levi, 1971: 480

Neoscona rufipalpis punctipedella (Strand, 1908e: 292, j, Tanzania, originally in Aranea) -- Nentwig et al., 2019: 34

Neoscona rufipalpis nigrodecorata (Strand, 1908: 290, j, Togo, originally in Aranea) -- Nentwig et al., 2019: 34

Neoscona sacra (Walckenaer, 1841: 33, mf, USA, originally in Epeira) -- Berman & Levi, 1971: 482

Neoscona vulgaris (Hentz, 1847: 469, pl. 30, f. 6, f, USA, originally in Epeira) -- Berman & Levi, 1971: 498

Neoscona achine (Simon, 1906) | | India, China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016688
Araneus achine Simon, 1906c: 309 (Df) Original description
Neoscona achine Tikader & Bal, 1981: 39, f. 85-90 (mf, T from Araneus)
Neoscona achine Tikader, 1982a: 278, f. 555-560 (mf)
Neoscona achine Hu & Li, 1987a: 330, f. 12.1-4, 13.1-2 (mf)
Neoscona xizangensis Yin et al., 1990: 131, f. 325-331 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060996]
Neoscona achine Yin et al., 1997d: 364, f. 259a-i (mf, S of Neoscona xizangensis)
Neoscona achine Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 293, f. 175H-J, 178N, 180D (mf)
Neoscona achine Hu, 2001: 464, f. 304.1-4 (mf)
Neoscona adianta (Walckenaer, 1802) | | Europe, North Africa to Central Asia, Russia (Europe to Far East), China, Korea, Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016689
Aranea adianta Walckenaer, 1802: 199 (D) Original description
Aranea marmorea Panzer, 1804: 27, pl. 19, f. 12 (misidentified per Thorell, 1870a: 23)
Epeira adianta Walckenaer, 1805: 60
Epeira segmentata Sundevall, 1833a: 247 (mf; misidentified per Walckenaer, 1841: 52)
Miranda pictilis C. L. Koch, 1837b: 4 (D) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066880]
Miranda pictilis C. L. Koch, 1838b: 50, f. 369 (Df)
Epeira adianta Walckenaer, 1841: 52 (S of Miranda pictilis)
Epeira adianta Westring, 1861: 51 (Dm)
Epeira adianta Blackwall, 1864a: 348, pl. 25, f. 251 (mf)
Miranda adianta Menge, 1866: 69, pl. 11, f. 15 (mf)
Epeira adianta Thorell, 1870a: 23
Epeira mimula L. Koch, 1882: 625, pl. 20, f. 1 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066881]
Epeira adianta Becker, 1896: (2): 38, pl. 9, f. 1 (mf)
Epeira adianta Bösenberg, 1901: 32, pl. 2, f. 17 (mf)
Meta doenitzi Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 180, pl. 11, f. 238-239 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060917]
Aranea adianta japonica Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 219, pl. 4, f. 27 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066882]
Aranea doenitzi Strand, 1907k: 182 (T from Meta)
Araneus adiantus Lessert, 1910b: 331
Epeira triangulata Franganillo, 1913: 127 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066883]
Epeira triangulata Franganillo, 1918a: 63 (Dm)
Araneus adianta Simon, 1929: 693, 762, f. 1072-1073 (mf, S of Epeira mimula and E. triangulata)
Araneus japonica Simon, 1929: 762
Neoscona adianta Simon, 1929: 762 (S of Neoscona triangulata)
Aranea adianta Wiehle, 1931: 103, f. 156-160 (mf)
Meta doenitzi Saitō, 1933b: 49, pl. 3, f. 15
Meta doenitzi Nakatsudi, 1942a: 307, f. 28 (f)
Aranea adianta Roewer, 1942a: 780 (S of Aranea byzanthina [revalidated by Ledoux, 2008a: 49] and A. turcica [see Neoscona byzanthina])
Aranea adianta japonica Roewer, 1942a: 781
Aranea adianta Drensky, 1943: 244, f. 24 (mf)
Neoscona adianta Archer, 1951c: 4, f. 5 (m, T from Araneus)
Araneus adiantus Locket & Millidge, 1953: 141, f. 93D-F (mf)
Neoscona adianta Yaginuma, 1955a: 18, pl. I, f. 2 (f)
Neoscona doenitzi Yaginuma, 1955a: 18, pl. I, f. 1, 18 (mf, T from Araneus)
Araneus adiantum Bonnet, 1955: 421 (unjustified emendation)
Araneus adiantum japonicus Bonnet, 1955: 424
Araneus adiantus Saito, 1959: 85, f. 88a-d (f)
Neoscona doenitzi Yaginuma, 1960: 56, f. 52.2 (mf)
Neoscona doenitzi Lee, 1966: 42, f. 12c-e (mf)
Araneus adiantus Azheganova, 1968: 74, f. 146, 167 (mf)
Araneus adiantum Miller, 1971: 211, pl. XXXIX, f. 18-19 (m)
Neoscona doenitzi Yaginuma, 1971: 56, f. 52.1 (mf)
Neoscona adianta Yaginuma, 1971: 57, f. 53 (f)
Araneus adiantus Tystshenko, 1971: 198, f. 594 (f)
Araneus adiantum Loksa, 1972: 84, f. 75, 76A-C (mf)
Araneus adiantus Izmailova, 1972c: 52, f. 4 (f)
Araneus adiantus Bakhvalov, 1974: 111, f. 81-85 (mf)
Neoscona adianta Punda, 1975b: 44, f. 71-72 (f)
Neoscona doenitzi Zhu, 1976: 32, f. 37-38 (mf)
Neoscona doenitzi Yin, 1978: 4, f. 11A-D (mf)
Neoscona adiantum Yin, 1978: 6, f. 14A-E (mf)
Neoscona adiantum Paik & Namkung, 1979: 46, f. 28 (f)
Neoscona doenitzi Paik & Namkung, 1979: 46, f. 29.1-2 (mf)
Neoscona doenitzi Song, 1980: 102, f. 48a-d (mf)
Neoscona adiantum Song, 1980: 106, f. 51a-e (mf)
Araneus adianta japonica Oliger, 1981: 3, f. 1 (f)
Neoscona doenitzi Oliger, 1981: 6, f. 9-11 (mf)
Neoscona adiantum Hu, 1984: 120, f. 120.1-2 (f)
Neoscona adianta Roberts, 1985: 214, f. 96b (mf)
Neoscona adiantum Guo, 1985: 67, f. 2-20.1-3 (mf)
Neoscona adianta Zhu & Shi, 1985: 79, f. 67a-h (mf)
Neoscona adiantum Grasshoff, 1986: 66, 118, f. 85-89 (mf, S of Neoscona doenitzi, S of Neoscona byzanthina and N. turcica confirmed [N. byzanthina revalidated by Ledoux, 2008a: 49, incl. S of N. turcica])
Neoscona doenitzi Yaginuma, 1986a: 103, f. 55.3 (f)
Neoscona adiantum Yaginuma, 1986c: 190, 199 (S of Neoscona doenitzi confirmed)
Neoscona adiantum Zhang, 1987: 82, f. 66.1-4 (mf)
Neoscona adianta Chikuni, 1989b: 72, f. 31 (mf)
Neoscona adiantum Feng, 1990: 88, f. 63.1-4 (mf)
Neoscona adiantum Chen & Gao, 1990: 64, f. 79a-b (mf)
Neoscona adianta Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 88, f. 198 (mf)
Neoscona adianta Zhao, 1993: 240, f. 113a-d (mf)
Neoscona adianta Roberts, 1995: 324, f. (mf)
Neoscona adianta Zhao, 1995: 958, f. 452a-d (mf)
Araneus adiantus Mcheidze, 1997: 272, f. 633-634 (mf)
Neoscona adianta Yin & Kim, 1997: 58, f. 2A-G (mf)
Neoscona adianta Song, Chen & Zhu, 1997: 1714, f. 15a-c (mf)
Neoscona adianta Yin et al., 1997d: 345, f. 243a-g (mf)
Neoscona adianta Roberts, 1998: 337, f. (mf)
Neoscona adianta Levy, 1998a: 339, f. 108-116 (mf)
Neoscona adianta Kim, 1998a: 1, f. 1A-G (mf)
Neoscona adianta Tanikawa, 1998b: 140, f. 9, 18-24 (mf, S of Neoscona adianta japonica) 
Neoscona adianta Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 293, f. 175K-L, 178O (mf)
Neoscona adianta Song, Zhu & Chen, 2001: 216, f. 130A-E (mf)
Neoscona adianta Namkung, 2002: 265, f. 19.27a-c (mf)
Neoscona adianta Kim & Kim, 2002: 214, f. 54-56, 138-140, 255-258 (mf)
Neoscona adianta Kim & Cho, 2002: 268, f. 661-666 (mf)
Neoscona adianta Namkung, 2003: 267, f. 19.27a-c (mf)
Neoscona adianta Almquist, 2006: 172, f. 178a-i (mf)
Neoscona adianta Tanikawa, 2007c: 68, f. 160-161, 575-577 (mf)
Neoscona adianta Ledoux, 2008a: 49, f. 5A-C, 7B, 8D, 10B (mf)
Neoscona adianta Tanikawa, 2009: 443, f. 155-157 (mf)
Neoscona adianta Zhu & Zhang, 2011: 234, f. 167A-D (mf)
Neoscona adianta Kim & Lee, 2012b: 89, f. 64A-C (mf)
Neoscona adianta Baba & Tanikawa, 2015: 68, 4 f. (mf)
Neoscona adianta Breitling et al., 2016b: 56 (S of Araneus triangulatus, confirming Roewer, 1955c : 1490 and Méndez, 1998: 143)
Neoscona adianta Geci & Naumova, 2021: 3, f. 5D-F (f)
Neoscona adianta Zhang, Peng & Zhang, 2022: 113, f. 79A-G (mf)
Neoscona adianta Střeštík, 2022: 14, 2 f. (m)
Neoscona adianta Pintilioaie & Urák, 2022a: 2, f. 3a-c (f)
Neoscona adianta persecta (Schenkel, 1936) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016690
Araneus doenitzi persectus Schenkel, 1936b: 110, f. 39 (Df) Original description
Neoscona alberti (Strand, 1913) | | DR Congo, Rwanda, Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016691
Aranea alberti Strand, 1913a: 375 (Df) Original description
Aranea edwardiana Strand, 1913a: 377 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060919]
Neoscona tuckeri Caporiacco, 1949a: 416, f. 59a-b (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060991]
Neoscona alberti Caporiacco, 1949a: 416 (T from Araneus)
Neoscona alberti Grasshoff, 1986: 51, f. 64-70 (Dm, f, S of Araneus edwardianus and Neoscona tuckeri)
Neoscona alberti Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022e: 59, 6 f. (f)
Neoscona albertoi Barrion-Dupo, 2008 | | Philippines urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041981
Neoscona albertoi Barrion-Dupo, 2008: 240, f. 1J, 2F (Df) Original description
Neoscona aldinei Barrion-Dupo, 2008 | | Philippines urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041982
Neoscona aldinei Barrion-Dupo, 2008: 241, f. 1K, O, 2G (Df) Original description
Neoscona amamiensis Tanikawa, 1998 | | Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016692
Neoscona amamiensis Tanikawa, 1998b: 142, f. 10, 25-31 (Dmf) Original description
Neoscona amamiensis Tanikawa, 2007c: 68, f. 162, 578-580 (mf)
Neoscona amamiensis Tanikawa, 2009: 443, f. 158-160 (mf)
Neoscona ampoyae Barrion-Dupo, 2008 | | Philippines urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041983
Neoscona ampoyae Barrion-Dupo, 2008: 242, f. 1L, 2H (Df) Original description
Neoscona angulatula (Schenkel, 1937) | | Kenya, South Africa, Madagascar, Seychelles (Aldabra, Assumption) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016693
Araneus angulatulus Schenkel, 1937: 383, f. 4 (Df) Original description
Neoscona dripaca Roberts, 1983: 275, f. 199-201, 211-212 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060918]
Neoscona angulatula Grasshoff, 1986: 106, f. 153-159 (mf, T from Araneus, S of Neoscona dripaca)
Neoscona angulatula Saaristo, 2010: 41, f. 4.43-46, 52 (mf)
Neoscona angulatula Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022e: 60, 4 f. (f)
Neoscona arabesca (Walckenaer, 1841) | | North, Central America, Caribbean. Introduced to Nepal, China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016694 TYPE SPECIES
Epeira arabesca Walckenaer, 1841: 74 (Dmf) Original description
Epeira trivittata Keyserling, 1864: 95, pl. 5, f. 6-9 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066877]
Epeira trivittata Emerton, 1884: 311, pl. 33, f. 16, pl. 36, f. 2-3, 5, 8 (Dm, f)
Epeira trivittata Keyserling, 1892: 172, pl. 8, f. 127 (f)
Epeira arabesca McCook, 1894: 148, pl. 1, f. 8, pl. 2, f. 6-7 (mf, S of Epeira trivittata)
Epeira singularis Banks, 1898b: 252, pl. 15, f. 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060983]
Epeira trivittata Emerton, 1902: 166, f. 393-395 (mf)
Neoscona minima F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 471, pl. 44, f. 11-12 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060949]
Neoscona arabesca F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 472, pl. 44, f. 13-14 (mf)
Epeira minima Banks, 1909a: 211
Araneus arabesca Petrunkevitch, 1911: 279
Araneus minimus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 303
Araneus singularis Petrunkevitch, 1911: 316
Neoscona minima Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936b: 20, f. 30
Neoscona arabesca Comstock, 1940: 510, f. 527 (f)
Neoscona arabesca Muma, 1943: 97, pl. 14, f. 2-3 (mf, T from Araneus)
Neoscona arabesca Kaston, 1948: 245, f. 750, 771-773, 775 (f)
Neoscona minima Kaston, 1948: 245, f. 751, 776 (f)
Neoscona arabesca Berman & Levi, 1971: 474, f. 1-3, 5-6, 8, 10, 14-42, 125-126 (mf, S of Neoscona minima and N. naiba [rejected by Levi, 1973: 478, see N. oaxacensis])
Neoscona arabesca Barrion et al., 1988a: 389, f. 1a-g, 9a (f; probably misidentified per Platnick, 1993c: 454)
Neoscona minima Barrion et al., 1988a: 392, f. 2a-g, 9b (f; probably misidentified per Platnick, 1993c: 454)
Neoscona minima Barrion et al., 1988b: 250, f. 3, 4a-f (f; probably misidentified per Platnick, 1993c: 454)
Neoscona arabesca Coddington, 1990: 14, f. 65 (m)
Neoscona arabesca Levi, 1991a: 180 (S of Araneus singularis)
Neoscona arabesca Breene et al., 1993: 106, f. 164A-C (mf)
Neoscona arabesca Levi, 1993a: 230, f. 14-17 (mf)
Neoscona arabesca Levi, 2002: 547, f. 193 (m)
Neoscona arabesca Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 49, f. 341-343 (mf)
Neoscona arabesca Dondale et al., 2003: 171, f. 363-371 (mf)
Neoscona bengalensis Tikader & Bal, 1981 | | Pakistan, India, Bangladesh urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016695
Neoscona bengalensis Tikader & Bal, 1981: 15, f. 22-25 (Df) Original description
Neoscona bengalensis Tikader & Biswas, 1981: 24, f. 25-27 (f)
Neoscona bengalensis Tikader, 1982a: 246, f. 474-477 (f)
Neoscona bengalensis Mukhtar, 2012: 1714 (mentioning m)
Neoscona bengalensis Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2013c: 171, f. 1-6 (f)
Neoscona bengalensis Sen et al., 2015: 125, f. 793-798, pl. 24 (f)
Neoscona bengalensis Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2017: 23, f. 132-137, 191 (f)
Neoscona bengalensis Basu, Roy & Raychaudhuri, 2017: 66, f. xii-xvii, 12-17 (f)
Neoscona bihumpi Patel, 1988 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016696
Neoscona bihumpi Patel, 1988a: 1029, f. 1a-f (Dmf) Original description
Neoscona biswasi Bhandari & Gajbe, 2001 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040040
Neoscona biswasi Bhandari & Gajbe, 2001a: 62, f. 7-10 (Df) Original description
Neoscona biswasi Gajbe, 2004d: 47, f. 35-38 (f)
Neoscona blondeli (Simon, 1886) | | Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016697
Epeira blondeli Simon, 1886g: 369 (Df) Original description
Araneus bettoni Pocock, 1898g: 510, pl. 41, f. 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060905]
Araneus taruensis Pocock, 1898g: 511, pl. 41, f. 5, pl. 42, f. 1 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060988]
Araneus blondeli Simon, 1907d: 290, f. 1B (f)
Araneus gerhardti Caporiacco, 1949a: 420, f. 60a-b (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060923]
Neoscona blondeli Grasshoff, 1986: 36, f. 7-8, 44-54 (mf, T from Araneus, S of Araneus bettoni, A. gerhardti and A. taruensis)
Neoscona blondeli Heinrichs & Barrion, 2004: 211, f. 603-604 (m)
Neoscona blondeli Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022e: 61, p. 61: 5 f., p. 62: 3 f. (f)
Neoscona bucheti (Lessert, 1930) | | DR Congo urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016698
Araneus bucheti Lessert, 1930: 650, f. 23a-b, 24a (Dmf) Original description
Afraranea bucheti Archer, 1951a: 22 (T from Araneus)
Neoscona bucheti Grasshoff, 1986: 4 (T from Afraranea, by downgrading Afraranea to a subgenus)
Neoscona bucheti avakubiensis (Lessert, 1930) | | DR Congo urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016699
Araneus bucheti avakubiensis Lessert, 1930: 652, f. 24b (Dm) Original description
Neoscona bucheti avakubiensis Grasshoff, 1986: 4 (T from Afraranea, by downgrading Afraranea to a subgenus)
Neoscona byzanthina (Pavesi, 1876) | | Spain, France, Italy, Romania, Balkans, Greece, Turkey, Russia (Caucasus), Iran urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041612
Epeira byzanthina Pavesi, 1876b: 59 (Df) Original description
Epeira turcica Simon, 1879b: 36 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066884]
Epeira byzanthina Simon, 1885c: 328 (S of Epeira turcica)
Araneus byzanthinus Bonnet, 1955: 449
Neoscona byzantina Ledoux & Canard, 1981: 12, f. 28 (m, lapsus)
Neoscona byzanthina Ledoux, 2008a: 49, f. 5D-E, 6, 7A, 8A-C, 10A (mf, removed from S of Neoscona adianta [rejecting Roewer, 1942a: 780 and Grasshoff, 1986: 66], S of N. turcica confirmed)
Neoscona byzanthina Mora-Rubio, Morano & Pérez-Bote, 2019: 2, f. 1-2 (f)
Neoscona byzanthina Geci & Naumova, 2021: 2, f. 2A-I, 3A-I, 4A-C, 5A-C (mf)
Neoscona byzanthina Pintilioaie & Urák, 2022a: 1, f. 1a-e, 2a-c (f)
Neoscona cereolella (Strand, 1907) | | DR Congo, Tanzania, Madagascar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016701
Aranea cereolella Strand, 1907d: 732 (Dmf) Original description
Aranea cereolella Strand, 1907o: 54 (Dmf)
Aranea cereolella Tullgren, 1910: 163, pl. 4, f. 110 (mf)
Araneus cereolellus Lessert, 1930: 647, f. 21 (mf)
Afraranea cereolella Archer, 1951a: 22 (T from Araneus)
Neoscona cereolella Nentwig et al., 2019: 33, f. 3a-b (f)
Neoscona cereolella setaceola (Strand, 1913) | | DR Congo urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016702
Aranea cereolella setaceola Strand, 1913a: 373 (Df) Original description
Araneus cereolellus setaceola Lessert, 1930: 649, f. 22a-b (Dm, f)
Neoscona cereolella setaceola Nentwig et al., 2019: 33, f. 3c (f, subspecies inquirenda)
Neoscona cheesmanae (Berland, 1938) | | Vanuatu urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016703
Araneus cheesmannae Berland, 1938: 175, f. 133-136 (Df; patronym for Ms. Cheesman) Original description
Afraranea cheesmanae Archer, 1951a: 22 (T from Araneus)
Neoscona chiarinii (Pavesi, 1883) | | Cameroon, DR Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016704
Epeira chiarinii Pavesi, 1883: 14 (Df) Original description
Aranea accentuata Thorell, 1899: 53 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060896]
Araneus potteri Simon, 1901d: 19 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060967]
Araneus lapillulus Simon, 1907d: 292, f. 1D (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060939]
Araneus potteri Lessert, 1915a: 31, pl. 2, f. 48-49, 56-58 (Dm)
Araneus mutilatus Caporiacco, 1947c: 172, f. 29 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060951]
Neoscona chiarinii Grasshoff, 1986: 42, f. 55-59 (mf, T from Araneus, S of Araneus accentuatus, A. lapillulus, A. mutilatus and A. potteri)
Neoscona chiarinii Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 3, 5 f. (f)
Neoscona chongzuoensis X. X. Zhang & F. Zhang, 2011 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044323
Neoscona chongzuoensis Zhang & Zhang, 2011b: 521, f. 19-24 (Dm) Original description
Neoscona chrysanthusi Tikader & Bal, 1981 | | Pakistan, India, Bhutan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016705
Neoscona chrysanthusi Tikader & Bal, 1981: 13, f. 18-21 (Df) Original description
Neoscona chrysanthusi Tikader, 1982a: 244, f. 470-473 (f)
Neoscona chrysanthusi Sen et al., 2015: 125, f. 799-804, pl. 24 (f)
Neoscona chrysanthusi Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2017: 23, f. 138-143, 192 (f)
Neoscona crucifera (Lucas, 1838) | | North America. Introduced to Hawaii, Azores, Madeira, Canary Is. urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016706
Epeira crucifera Lucas, 1838: 42, pl. 6, f. 3 (Df) Original description
Epeira lentiginosa Blackwall, 1862a: 378 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066886]
Epeira hentzii Keyserling, 1864: 97, pl. 5, f. 10-11 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060928]
Epeira domiciliorum Emerton, 1884: 312, pl. 33, f. 17, pl. 36, f. 1, 4 (mf; misidentified per Kaston, 1948: 246)
Epeira benjamini Keyserling, 1892: 134, pl. 7, f. 100 (f; misidentified per Berman & Levi, 1971: 480)
Epeira benjamina McCook, 1894: 147, pl. 2, f. 4-5 (misidentified per Berman & Levi, 1971: 480)
Epeira crucifera Kulczyński, 1899: 394, pl. 8, f. 88-97 (Dm, f, S of Epeira lentiginosa)
Neoscona benjamina F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 470, pl. 44, f. 8-8b (f; misidentified per Berman & Levi, 1971: 480)
Aranea crucifera ladislausi Strand, 1908c: 3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060912]
Aranea crucifera albimaculata Strand, 1908c: 3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060911]
Aranea crucifera pyramidella Strand, 1908c: 3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060914]
Aranea crucifera ochroleucella Strand, 1908c: 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060913]
Neoscona benjamina Comstock, 1912: 498, f. 532-535 (f; misidentified per Berman & Levi, 1971: 480)
Neoscona benjamina Comstock, 1940: 511, f. 532-535 (f; misidentified per Berman & Levi, 1971: 480)
Neoscona arkansa Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942a: 77, f. 217-218 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060903]
Neoscona nebraskensis Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942a: 77, f. 219-220 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060953]
Neoscona sacra Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944: 108, f. 61 (misidentified per Berman & Levi, 1971: 480)
Neoscona benjamina Kaston, 1948: 246, f. 752, 777-778 (f; misidentified per Berman & Levi, 1971: 480)
Neoscona hentzii Berman & Levi, 1971: 478, f. 51-58, 128 (mf, removed from S of Neoscona benjamina, S of Neoscona arkansa and N. nebraskensis)
Neoscona hentzi Kaston, 1977: 30, f. 22 (m)
Neoscona crucifera Grasshoff, 1986: 62, f. 79-84 (mf, T from Araneus, S of Araneus crucifera albimaculatus, A. c. ladislausi, A. c. ochroleucellus, A. c. pyramidellus and Neoscona hentzi)
Neoscona crucifera Dondale et al., 2003: 173, f. 372-377 (mf)
Neoscona crucifera Jiménez et al., 2024: 189, f. 29-30, 94-95 (f)
Neoscona decolor (L. Koch, 1871) | | Australia (New South Wales, Victoria), Fiji urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014826
Epeira decolor L. Koch, 1871: 71, pl. 6, f. 8 (Df) Original description
Neoscona decolor Framenau, 2019: 10, f. 5A-C (f, T from Araneus)
Neoscona dhruvai Patel & Nigam, 1994 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016707
Neoscona dhruvai Patel & Nigam, 1994: 203, f. 2a-e (Df) Original description
Neoscona dhumani Patel & Reddy, 1993 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016708
Neoscona dhumani Patel & Reddy, 1993a: 3, f. 2a-h (Dmf) Original description
Neoscona domiciliorum (Hentz, 1847) | | USA urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016709
Epeira domiciliorum Hentz, 1847: 469, pl. 30, f. 7 (Df) Original description
Epeira domiciliorum McCook, 1881: 173, f. 13 (f)
Epeira benjamina McCook, 1894: 147, pl. 1, f. 7 (Dm, f; misidentified per Berman & Levi, 1971: 478)
Neoscona domiciliorum Archer, 1940: 48, pl. 2, f. 2 (f, removed from S of Neoscona benjamina, rejecting Petrunkevitch, 1911: 281)
Neoscona domiciliorum Berman & Levi, 1971: 477, f. 43-50, 127 (mf)
Neoscona domiciliorum Kaston, 1977: 30, f. 21 (m)
Neoscona domiciliorum Álvarez-Padilla & Hormiga, 2011a: 848, f. 135A, 138C (mf)
Neoscona dostinikea Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 | | Philippines urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016710
Neoscona dostinikea Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 618, f. 389a-g (Dm) Original description
Neoscona dyali Gajbe, 2004 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040042
Neoscona dyali Gajbe, 2004d: 49, f. 39-42 (Df) Original description
Neoscona elliptica Tikader & Bal, 1981 | | India, Bangladesh, China, Thailand, Laos urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014856
Neoscona elliptica Tikader & Bal, 1981: 24, f. 45-49 (Dmf) Original description
Neoscona griseomaculata Yin & Wang, 1982: 260, f. A-L (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058337]
Neoscona elliptica Tikader, 1982a: 259, f. 515-519 (mf)
Neoscona griseomaculata Yin, Wang & Hu, 1983: 34, f. 6C (m)
Neoscona griseomaculata Hu, 1984: 122, f. 122.1-11 (mf)
Araneus ellipticus Grasshoff, 1986: 118 (T from Neoscona)
Neoscona griseomaculata Song, 1987: 171, f. 131 (mf)
Neoscona griseomaculata Feng, 1990: 90, f. 65.1-4 (mf)
Neoscona griseomaculata Chen & Gao, 1990: 66, f. 81a-c (mf)
Neoscona griseomaculata Zhao, 1993: 242, f. 114a-b (mf)
Neoscona elliptica Zhu & Zhang, 1993: 38, f. 14-20 (mf)
Araneus ellipticus Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 639, f. 406a-d (f)
Neoscona griseomaculata Zhao, 1995: 960, f. 453a-b (mf)
Neoscona elliptica Yin et al., 1997d: 347, f. 245a-k (mf, T from Araneus, S of Neoscona griseomaculata)
Neoscona elliptica Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 299, f. 175O-Q, 178Q-R, 180F (mf)
Neoscona elliptica Gajbe, 2007: 531, f. 322-325 (f)
Neoscona elliptica Yin et al., 2012: 725, f. 360a-k (mf)
Neoscona elliptica Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2013c: 171, f. 7-13 (f)
Neoscona enucleata (Karsch, 1879) | | India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indonesia (Sumatra) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014859
Epeira enucleata Karsch, 1879d: 550 (Df) Original description
Epeira albertisii Thorell, 1887: 182 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066887]
Epeira soronis Thorell, 1890a: 143 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066888]
Epeira enucleata Thorell, 1895b: 174 (S of Epeira albertisi and E. soronis)
Araneus soronis Simon, 1899a: 91
Aranea enucleata Roewer, 1942a: 822
Neoscona enucleata Framenau, 2019: 11 (T from Araneus)
Neoscona facundoi Barrion-Dupo, 2008 | | Philippines urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041984
Neoscona facundoi Barrion-Dupo, 2008: 244, f. 1M, 2I (Df) Original description
Neoscona flavida Kim, Lee & Yoo, 2019 | | Korea urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051613
Neoscona flavida Kim, Lee & Yoo, 2019: 266, f. 2A-G (Df) Original description
Neoscona flavopunctata (L. Koch, 1871) | | Fiji urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014878
Epeira flavopunctata L. Koch, 1871: 79, pl. 5, f. 4 (Dm) Original description
Araneus flavopunctulatus Bonnet, 1955: 503 (lapsus)
Neoscona flavopunctata Framenau, 2019: 12, f. 6A-D (m, T from Araneus)
Neoscona floriata (Hogg, 1914) | | Indonesia (New Guinea) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014882
Araneus floriatus Hogg, 1914a: 57 (Dmf; no male in the type series per Framenau, 2019: 12) Original description
Araneus floriatus Hogg, 1915a: 446, f. 25 (f)
Aranea floricata Roewer, 1942a: 828 (lapsus)
Neoscona floriata Framenau, 2019: 12, 7A-D (f, T from Araneus)
Neoscona fuscinotum (Strand, 1908) | | Togo urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014888
Aranea rufipalpis fuscinotum Strand, 1908e: 294 (Df) Original description
Aranea fuscinotum Roewer, 1942a: 808 (elevated to species)
Neoscona fuscinotum Nentwig et al., 2019: 34 (T from Araneus, species inquirenda)
Neoscona goliath (Benoit, 1963) | | Ivory Coast urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014076
Singafrotypa goliath Benoit, 1963b: 30, f. 1-2 (Df) Original description
Neoscona goliath Kuntner & Hormiga, 2002: 137 (T from Singafrotypa)
Neoscona govindai Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2013 | | Bangladesh urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047574
Neoscona govindai Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2013c: 171, f. 14-18 (Df) Original description
Neoscona granti (Hogg, 1914) | | Indonesia (New Guinea) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014907
Araneus granti Hogg, 1914a: 57 (Df) Original description
Araneus granti Hogg, 1915a: 448, f. 26 (f)
Araneus granti Chrysanthus, 1960: 36, f. 32-33, 49, 60, 72 (Dm, f)
Neoscona granti Framenau, 2019: 14, f. 8A-C (f, T from Araneus)
Neoscona hirta (C. L. Koch, 1844) | | Ivory Coast, DR Congo, Tanzania, Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Eswatini urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016711
Epeira hirta C. L. Koch, 1844: 69, f. 888 (Df) Original description
Araneus mensamontis Pocock, 1900e: 324 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060947]
Aranea mensamontis Strand, 1907n: 623
Aranea hirta Strand, 1913a: 371
Neoscona hirta Grasshoff, 1986: 91, f. 136-140 (Dm, f, T from Araneus, S of Araneus mensamontis)
Neoscona hirta Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 4, 4 f. (f)
Neoscona holmi (Schenkel, 1953) | | China, Korea urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016712
Araneus holmi Schenkel, 1953b: 45, f. 21a-f (Dm) Original description
Neoscona adiantum Song, Yu & Shang, 1981: 83, f. 5-6 (m; misidentified sensu Yin & Kim, 1997: 58)
Neoscona doenitzi Wang, 1981: 96, f. 37A-B (m; misidentified sensu Yin & Kim, 1997: 58)
Neoscona doenitzi Hu, 1984: 121, f. 121.1-4 (mf; misidentified sensu Yin & Kim, 1997: 58)
Neoscona doenitzi Guo, 1985: 68, f. 2-21.1-4 (mf; misidentified sensu Yin & Kim, 1997: 58)
Neoscona doenitzi Zhu & Shi, 1985: 80, f. 68a-f (mf; misidentified sensu Yin & Kim, 1997: 58)
Neoscona doenitzi Song, 1987: 169, f. 130 (mf; misidentified sensu Yin & Kim, 1997: 58)
Neoscona doenitzi Zhang, 1987: 84, f. 68.1-4 (mf; misidentified sensu Yin & Kim, 1997: 58)
Neoscona doenitzi Hu & Wu, 1989: 105, f. 80.1-4 (mf; misidentified sensu Yin & Kim, 1997: 58)
Neoscona doenitzi Feng, 1990: 89, f. 64.1-5 (mf; misidentified sensu Yin & Kim, 1997: 58)
Neoscona doenitzi Chen & Gao, 1990: 65, f. 80a-b (mf; misidentified sensu Yin & Kim, 1997: 58)
Neoscona doenitzi Chen & Zhang, 1991: 114, f. 108.1-6 (mf; misidentified sensu Yin & Kim, 1997: 58)
Neoscona doenitzi Zhao, 1993: 245, f. 115a-c (mf; misidentified sensu Yin & Kim, 1997: 58)
Neoscona doenitzi Zhao, 1995: 963, f. 454a-c (mf; misidentified sensu Yin & Kim, 1997: 58)
Neoscona holmi Yin & Kim, 1997: 58, f. 2a-g (mf, T from Araneus)
Neoscona holmi Yin et al., 1997d: 349, f. 246a-h (mf)
Neoscona doenitzi Kim, 1998a: 1, f. 1a-g (mf; "uncertain" per Yoo et al., 2015: 5)
Neoscona holmi Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 299, f. 175R-T, 178S, 180G (mf)
Neoscona holmi Hu, 2001: 466, f. 306.1-6 (mf)
Neoscona holmi Song, Zhu & Chen, 2001: 217, f. 131A-F (mf)
Neoscona doenitzi Yoo & Kim, 2002a: 28, f. 54 (m; "uncertain" per Yoo et al., 2015: 5)
Neoscona holmi Zhu & Zhang, 2011: 236, f. 168A-E (mf)
Neoscona holmi Yin et al., 2012: 727, f. 361a-h (mf)
Neoscona huzaifi Mukhtar, 2012 | | Pakistan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:045566
Neoscona huzaifi Mukhtar, 2012: 1714, f. 1a-h (Dmf) Original description
Neoscona inusta (L. Koch, 1871) | | Taiwan, China, Philippines, Indonesia (Sumatra) to Australia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014947
Epeira inusta L. Koch, 1871: 94, pl. 7, f. 3 (Df) Original description
Epeira weyersi Simon, 1885a: 38 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066889]
Epeira inusta Thorell, 1890a: 151 (S of Epeira weyersi)
Araneus inustus Chrysanthus, 1960: 41, f. 48, 52, 59, 67-68 (Dm, f)
Araneus inustus Lee, 1966: 40, f. 11a-c (f)
Araneus inustus Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 631, f. 400a-d, 401a-c (mf)
Araneus inustus Yin et al., 1997d: 138, f. 53a-c (f)
Araneus inustus Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 239, f. 138F-G, 148F (f)
Neoscona inusta Framenau, 2019: 15 (T from Araneus)
Neoscona isatis Zamani, Marusik & Šestáková, 2020 | | Iran urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051610
Neoscona isatis Zamani, Marusik & Šestáková, 2020: 28, f. 11D-E, 13E-F, 14B,F, 15E-G, 16D-F, 17G-I (Dmf) Original description
Neoscona jindoensis Kim, Lee & Ji, 2016 | | Korea urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049320
Neoscona jindoensis Kim, Lee & Ji, 2016: 8, f. 1-7, 8a-c (Df) Original description
Neoscona jinghongensis Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016713
Neoscona jinghongensis Yin et al., 1990: 117, 165, f. 288-290 (Df) Original description
Neoscona jinghongensis Yin et al., 1997d: 356, f. 252a-f (f)
Neoscona jinghongensis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 299, f. 175U-V, 176A, 180H (f)
Neoscona flavescens Zhang & Zhang, 2011b: 520, f. 14-18 (m; misidentified per Mi, Wang & Li, 2024: 305)
Neoscona jinghongensis Mi, Wang & Li, 2024: 305, f. 19A-J, 20A-E, 21A-E (Dm, f)
Neoscona kabiri Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2013 | | Bangladesh urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047575
Neoscona kabiri Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2013c: 172, f. 19-23 (Df) Original description
Neoscona kisangani Grasshoff, 1986 | | DR Congo, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016714
Neoscona kisangani Grasshoff, 1986: 28, f. 31-35 (Dmf) Original description
Neoscona kisangani Booysen, Dippenaar-Schoeman & Uys, 2025: 17, f. 1-6 (f)
Neoscona kivuensis Grasshoff, 1986 | | DR Congo, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016715
Neoscona kivuensis Grasshoff, 1986: 109, f. 160-164 (Dmf) Original description
Neoscona kivuensis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 5, 9 f. (f)
Neoscona kunmingensis Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016716
Neoscona kunmingensis Yin et al., 1990: 121, f. 295-300 (Df) Original description
Neoscona kunmingensis Yin et al., 1997d: 365, f. 260a-g (f)
Neoscona kunmingensis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 299, f. 176B-D, 180I (f)
Neoscona lactea (Saito, 1933) | | Taiwan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016717
Araneus lacteus Saitō, 1933b: 55, pl. 3, f. 30 (Df) Original description
Araneus lacteus Lee, 1966: 39, f. 10e-g (f)
Araneus lacteus Yoshida, 1978b: 10, f. 28-30 (f)
Araneus lacteus Hu, 1984: 94, f. 87 (f)
Neoscona lacteus Yin et al., 1997d: 357, f. 253a-c (f, T from Araneus)
Neoscona lacteus Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 299, f. 176E-G (f)
Neoscona leucaspis (Schenkel, 1963) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016718
Araneus leucaspis Schenkel, 1963: 159, f. 94a-d (Df) Original description
Neoscona leucaspis Yin et al., 1997d: 358, f. 254a-d (f, T from Araneus)
Neoscona leucaspis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 299, f. 176H, 180J (f)
Neoscona lipana Barrion-Dupo, 2008 | | Philippines urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041985
Neoscona lipana Barrion-Dupo, 2008: 245, f. 1N, 2J (Df) Original description
Neoscona maculaticeps (L. Koch, 1871) | | Taiwan, Samoa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016719
Epeira maculaticeps L. Koch, 1871: 78, pl. 5, f. 5 (Dm) Original description
Epeira bertkaui Keyserling, 1890: 233, pl. 21, f. 1 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066894]
Araneus maculaticeps Berland, 1929b: 63, f. 52-53 (mf, S of Epeira bertkaui)
Araneus bertkaui Saitō, 1933b: 53, pl. 3, f. 13a-b (f)
Afraranea maculaticeps Archer, 1951a: 22 (T from Araneus)
Neoscona maculaticeps Grasshoff, 1986: 4 (T from Afraranea, by downgrading Afraranea to a subgenus)
Neoscona madagascarica (Strand, 1908) | | Madagascar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014998
Aranea rufipalpis madagascarica Strand, 1908e: 290, 293 (Dmf) Original description
Aranea madagascarica Roewer, 1942a: 810
Neoscona madagascarica Nentwig et al., 2019: 34 (T from Araneus, species inquirenda)
Neoscona marcanoi Levi, 1993 | | Cuba, Dominican Rep. urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016720
Neoscona marcanoi Levi, 1993a: 226, f. 1-9 (Dmf) Original description
Neoscona mellotteei (Simon, 1895) | | China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016721
Araneus melloteei Simon, 1895a: 812 (Df; patronym for Mellottée, per Ono, 2011c: 125) Original description
Aranea melloteei Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 218, pl. 11, f. 223 (Dm, f)
Araneus melloteei Saitō, 1933b: 55, pl. 3, f. 37
Araneus melloteei Yaginuma, 1940: 123, f. 2.1-4 (f)
Neoscona melloteei Yaginuma, 1955a: 19, pl. I, f. 11, 17 (mf, T from Araneus)
Neoscona melloteei Yaginuma, 1960: 57, f. 53 (f)
Neoscona melloteei Lee, 1966: 41, f. 11i-j (f)
Neoscona melloteei Yaginuma, 1971: 57, f. 53 (f)
Neoscona melloteei Matsumoto, 1973b: 41, f. 11, 13 (f)
Neoscona melloteei Yaginuma, 1986a: 103, f. 55.2 (f)
Neoscona melloteei Song, 1987: 172, f. 132 (f)
Neoscona melloteei Zhang, 1987: 86, f. 70.1-2 (f)
Neoscona mellotteei Chikuni, 1989b: 73, f. 35 (mf)
Neoscona mellotteei Feng, 1990: 91, f. 66.1-4 (mf)
Neoscona mellotteei Chen & Gao, 1990: 66, f. 82a-b (mf)
Neoscona mellotteei Zhao, 1993: 254, f. 117a-b (mf)
Neoscona mellotteei Zhao, 1995: 972, f. 456a-b (mf)
Neoscona mellotteei Song, Chen & Zhu, 1997: 1715, f. 16a-b (m)
Neoscona mellotteei Yin et al., 1997d: 366, f. 261a-f (mf)
Neoscona mellotteei Tanikawa, 1998b: 151, f. 37, 54-61 (mf)
Neoscona melloteei Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 299, f. 176I-J, 179A (mf)
Neoscona mellotteei Song, Zhu & Chen, 2001: 218, f. 132A-E (mf)
Neoscona melloteei Namkung, 2002: 266, f. 19.28a-c (mf)
Neoscona mellotteei Kim & Kim, 2002: 215, f. 57, 141, 259-260 (mf)
Neoscona mellotteei Kim & Cho, 2002: 268, f. 667-672 (f)
Neoscona melloteei Namkung, 2003: 268, f. 19.28a-c (mf)
Neoscona melloteei Tanikawa, 2007c: 69, f. 172-176, 588-590 (mf)
Neoscona mellotteei Tanikawa, 2009: 445, f. 167-169 (mf)
Neoscona melloteei Zhu & Zhang, 2011: 237, f. 169A-D (mf)
Neoscona mellotteei Yin et al., 2012: 730, f. 362a-f (mf)
Neoscona melloteei Kim & Lee, 2012b: 90, f. 65A-E (mf)
Neoscona mellotteei Baba & Tanikawa, 2015: 64, 5 f. (mf)
Neoscona menghaiensis Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016722
Neoscona menghaiensis Yin et al., 1990: 119, f. 291-294 (Df) Original description
Neoscona menghaiensis Yin et al., 1997d: 358, f. 255a-h (Dm, f)
Neoscona menghaiensis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 299, f. 176K-M, 179B, 180K (mf)
Neoscona molemensis Tikader & Bal, 1981 | | India, Bangladesh to Philippines, Indonesia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016724
Neoscona molemensis Tikader & Bal, 1981: 22, f. 40-44 (Dmf) Original description
Neoscona molemensis Tikader, 1982a: 257, f. 510-514 (mf)
Neoscona molemensis Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 627, f. 396a-e (f)
Neoscona molemensis Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2013c: 173, f. 30-36 (mf)
Neoscona molemensis Caleb, 2020b: 15717, f. 3E-F, 25A (f)
Neoscona moreli (Vinson, 1863) | | Cape Verde, Sub-Saharan Africa, Comoros, Madagascar, Seychelles, Reunion, Mauritius. Introduced to the Caribbean, Colombia, Venezuela to Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016725
Epeira morelii Vinson, 1863: 166, 309, pl. 4, f. 4 (Dm) Original description
Epeira lanuginosa Lenz, 1886: 389 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060938]
Epeira moreli Simon, 1886g: 370 (Df)
Epeira theisii Keyserling, 1893: 246, pl. 12, f. 184 (mf; misidentified per Berman & Levi, 1971: 490)
Epeira theisii McCook, 1894: 166, pl. 6, f. 8-9 (mf; misidentified per Berman & Levi, 1971: 490)
Araneus neotheis Petrunkevitch, 1911: 305 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060954]
Cubanella nidicola Franganillo, 1926a: 56, f. 2-3 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060955]
Cubanella nidicola Franganillo, 1926c: 15, f. 5-7 (m)
Cubanella recta Franganillo, 1930: 22, f. 8 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060968]
Neoscona neotheis Petrunkevitch, 1930a: 324
Neoscona neotheis Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936b: 21, f. 31 (f)
Neoscona nidicola Franganillo, 1936c: 76, f. 34 (f)
Neoscona recta Franganillo, 1936c: 77, f. 35-36
Neoscona nidicola Bryant, 1940: 511
Neoscona neotheis Berman & Levi, 1971: 490, f. 12, 91-100, 130-131 (mf, T from Araneus, S of Neoscona nidicola and N. recta)
Neoscona moreli Grasshoff, 1980: 407 (removed from S of Neoscona theisi, rejecting Simon, 1893h: 207)
Neoscona seca Roberts, 1983: 275, f. 202-204, 213-214 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060982]
Neoscona moreli Grasshoff, 1986: 56, f. 71-78 (mf, S of Araneus lanuginosus, Neoscona neotheis and N. seca)
Neoscona neotheis Barrion et al., 1988a: 394, f. 3a-g, 9c (f)
Neoscona moreli Levi, 1993a: 232, f. 18-21 (mf)
Neoscona moreli Saaristo, 2010: 41, f. 4.32-36, 53 (mf)
Neoscona moreli Jones & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2022b: 23, f. 1-19 (f, m habitus)
Neoscona moreli Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 6, p. 6: 3 f., p. 7: 8 f. (f)
Neoscona mukerjei Tikader, 1980 | | Pakistan, India, Bangladesh urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016726
Neoscona mukerjei Tikader, 1980b: 247, f. 1-23 (Dmf) Original description
Neoscona mukerjei Tikader & Bal, 1981: 17, f. 11-12, 26-30 (mf)
Neoscona mukerjei Tikader, 1982a: 248, f. 60-61, 478-500 (mf)
Neoscona mukerji Gajbe, 2007: 528, f. 312-316 (mf; lapsus)
Neoscona mukerjei Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2013c: 173, f. 37-44 (mf)
Neoscona mukerjei Sen et al., 2015: 125, f. 805-810, pl. 24 (f)
Neoscona mukharji Ade & Dixit, 2016: 730, f. 4a-i (f; lapsus)
Neoscona mukerjei Jaffry, Butt & Zahra, 2024: 416, f. 4A-K, 5A-D (mf)
Neoscona multiplicans (Chamberlin, 1924) | | China, Korea, Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016727
Aranea multiplicans Chamberlin, 1924a: 18, pl. 5, f. 35 (Dmf) Original description
Neoscona scylla Song, 1988: 129, f. 8A-B (f; misidentified per Song, Chen & Zhu, 1997: 1715)
Neoscona minoriscylla Yin et al., 1990: 123, f. 301-309 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060950]
Neoscona multiplicans Song, Chen & Zhu, 1997: 1715, f. 17a-c (mf, removed from S of Neoscona scylla, contra Song, 1988: 129, S of Neoscona minoriscylla)
Neoscona minoriscylla Yin et al., 1997d: 367, f. 262a-i (mf)
Neoscona minoriscylla Tanikawa, 1998b: 158, f. 83-85, 87 (f)
Neoscona multiplicans Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 300, f. 176N-O (f)
Neoscona minoriscylla Namkung & Kim, 1999: 213, f. 1I-L (f)
Neoscona multiplicans Namkung, 2002: 263, f. 19.25a-c (f)
Neoscona multiplicans Kim & Kim, 2002: 216, f. 58, 262-263 (f)
Neoscona multiplicans Namkung, 2002: 265, f. 19.25a-c (f)
Neoscona multiplicans Tanikawa, 2007c: 72, f. 190, 597 (f)
Neoscona multiplicans Tanikawa, 2009: 445, f. 176 (f)
Neoscona multiplicans Zhu & Zhang, 2011: 238, f. 170A-D (mf)
Neoscona multiplicans Yin et al., 2012: 731, f. 363a-i (mf)
Neoscona multiplicans Kim & Lee, 2012b: 92, f. 66A-C (f)
Neoscona murthyi Patel & Reddy, 1990 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016728
Neoscona murthyi Patel & Reddy, 1990c: 157, f. 1-5 (Df) Original description
Neoscona nasidae Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2013 | | Bangladesh urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047576
Neoscona nasidae Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2013c: 173, f. 45-49 (Df) Original description
Neoscona nautica (L. Koch, 1875) | | Asia and Pacific islands. Introduced to the Americas and Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016729
Epeira tristis Taczanowski, 1873: 131 (Df; preoccupied by Blackwall, 1862, see Eustala tristis)
Epeira nautica L. Koch, 1875b: 17, pl. 2, f. 2 (Dmf) Original description
Epeira pullata Thorell, 1877b: 385 (Df)
Epeira volucripes Keyserling, 1885: 528, pl. 13, f. 27 (Dmf)
Epeira volucripes Keyserling, 1892: 199, pl. 9, f. 147 (mf)
Epeira volucripes McCook, 1894: 162, pl. 6, f. 1-2 (mf)
Epeira nautica Thorell, 1898: 354 (S of Epeira pullata)
Araneus nauticus Pocock, 1900a: 228
Neoscona volucripes F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 473, pl. 44, f. 18 (f)
Aranea nautica Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 222, 403, pl. 4, f. 31, pl. 11, f. 197, pl. 12, f. 299 (mf)
Aranea koratsensis Dönitz & Strand in Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 384, pl. 4, f. 25 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060936]
Aranea camerunensis Strand, 1906h: 62 (Df)
Araneus nauticus Simon, 1907d: 290, f. 1A (f)
Aranea nautica camerunensis Strand, 1907n: 614 (downgraded to subspecies)
Araneus nauticus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 305 (S of Neoscona volucripes)
Araneus tristimoniae Petrunkevitch, 1911: 320 (replacement name for Epeira tristis Taczanowski) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060990]
Neoscona vulgaris Comstock, 1912: 500, f. 536 (f)
Neoscona nautica Petrunkevitch, 1930a: 320, f. 197-199 (mf)
Araneus nauticus Berland, 1932b: 396, f. 568-569 (f)
Neoscona nautica Comstock, 1940: 513, f. 536 (f)
Neoscona vulgaris Archer, 1940: 50, pl. II, f. 4 (f)
Aranea nautica Roewer, 1942a: 778 (S of Aranea camerunensis)
Araneus marcuzzii Caporiacco, 1955: 355, f. 35a-c (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060944]
Neoscona nautica Yaginuma, 1955a: 17, pl. 1, f. 5, 15 (mf, T from Araneus, S of Araneus koratsensis)
Araneus nauticus Saito, 1959: 90, text-f. 7.1-2, f. 104a-d (f)
Neoscona nautica Yaginuma, 1960: 56, f. 52.3 (mf)
Neoscona nautica Lee, 1966: 41, f. 11d-f (mf)
Neoscona nautica Yaginuma, 1971: 56, f. 52.3 (mf)
Neoscona nautica Berman & Levi, 1971: 498, f. 13, 111-120, 132 (mf, S of Araneus marcuzzii, A. tristimoniae and A. tristis Taczanowski)
Araneus nauticus Chrysanthus, 1971: 29, f. 48-51 (f)
Neoscona nautica Zhu, 1976: 32, f. 46, 51 (mf)
Neoscona nautica Yin, 1978: 5, f. 12A-D (mf)
Neoscona nautica Song, 1980: 103, f. 49a-d (mf)
Neoscona nautica Tikader & Bal, 1981: 12, f. 14-17 (f)
Neoscona nautica Tikader & Biswas, 1981: 27, f. 34-36 (f)
Neoscona nautica Tikader, 1982a: 242, f. 466-469 (f)
Neoscona nautica Hu, 1984: 122, f. 123.1-2 (mf)
Neoscona nautica Guo, 1985: 69, f. 2-22.1-4 (mf)
Neoscona nautica Zhu & Shi, 1985: 81, f. 69a-d (f)
Neoscona nautica Grasshoff, 1986: 46, f. 5, 60-63 (mf)
Neoscona nautica Yaginuma, 1986a: 105, f. 55.6 (mf)
Neoscona nautica Chikuni, 1989b: 72, f. 33 (mf)
Neoscona nautica Feng, 1990: 92, f. 67.1-6 (mf)
Neoscona nautica Chen & Gao, 1990: 67, f. 83a-b (mf)
Neoscona polyspinipes Yin et al., 1990: 104, f. 254, 258-260 (Df; m f. 255-257, 261 see Neoscona vigilans) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016739]
Neoscona nautica Chen & Zhang, 1991: 115, f. 109.1-5 (mf)
Neoscona nautica Zhao, 1993: 253, f. 116a-c (mf)
Neoscona nautica Levi, 1993a: 228, f. 10-13 (mf)
Neoscona nautica Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 629, f. 397a-h (f)
Neoscona nautica Zhao, 1995: 970, f. 455a-c (mf)
Neoscona nautica Yin et al., 1997d: 351, f. 247a-g (mf)
Neoscona polyspinipes Yin et al., 1997d: 352, f. 248a, c-d, f-h (f; m f. 248b, e, i-k see Neoscona vigilans)
Neoscona nautica Tanikawa, 1998b: 145, f. 33, 39-45 (mf)
Neoscona nautica Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 300, f. 176P-R, 179C, 180L (mf)
Neoscona polyspinipes Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 300, f. 176V-X, 180N (f; m f. 179D-E see Neoscona vigilans)
Neoscona nautica Hu, 2001: 467, f. 307.1-3 (f)
Neoscona nautica Namkung, 2002: 260, f. 19.22a-b (mf)
Neoscona nautica Levi, 2002: 541, f. 108-111 (f)
Neoscona nautica Kim & Kim, 2002: 217, f. 59, 142-143, 264-266 (mf)
Neoscona nautica Kim & Cho, 2002: 269, f. 673-678 (f)
Neoscona nautica Yoo & Kim, 2002a: 28, f. 52 (m)
Neoscona nautica Namkung, 2003: 261, f. 19.21a-b (mf)
Neoscona nautica Gajbe, 2007: 526, f. 308-311 (f)
Neoscona nautica Tanikawa, 2007c: 69, f. 163, 581-584 (mf)
Neoscona nautica Barrion-Dupo, 2008: 234, f. 1A, 2A (f)
Neoscona nautica Tanikawa, 2009: 443, f. 161-163 (mf)
Neoscona nautica Zhu & Zhang, 2011: 239, f. 171A-E (mf)
Neoscona flavescens Zhang & Zhang, 2011b: 520, f. 10-13 (Df; m f. 14-18 see Neoscona jinghongensis) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044322]
Neoscona nautica Yin et al., 2012: 733, f. 364a-g (mf)
Neoscona polyspinipes Yin et al., 2012: 735, f. 365a, c-d, f-h (f; m f. 365b, e, i-k see Neoscona vigilans)
Neoscona nautica Kim & Lee, 2012b: 93, f. 67A-C (mf)
Neoscona nautica Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2013c: 174, f. 50-55 (f)
Neoscona nautica Sen et al., 2015: 124, f. 787-792, pl. 23 (f)
Neoscona nautica Baba & Tanikawa, 2015: 63, 4 f. (mf)
Neoscona nautica Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2017: 24, f. 144-148, 193 (f)
Neoscona nautica Basu, Roy & Raychaudhuri, 2017: 67, f. xxx-xxxv, 30-35 (f)
Neoscona polyspinipes Lin et al., 2023a: 503 (S of Neoscona xiquanensis; rejected by Mi, Wang & Li, 2024: 308, see Neoscona vigilans)
Neoscona nautica Mi, Wang & Li, 2024: 306 (S of Neoscona flavescens and N. polyspinipes)
Neoscona notanda (Rainbow, 1912) | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015066
Araneus notandus Rainbow, 1912a: 196, f. 7-9 (Df) Original description
Neoscona notanda Framenau, 2019: 16 (T from Araneus)
Neoscona novella (Simon, 1907) | | Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016730
Araneus novellus Simon, 1907d: 294, f. 3A (Df) Original description
Neoscona novella Grasshoff, 1986: 104, f. 151-152 (f, T from Araneus)
Neoscona novella Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 8, 4 f. (f)
Neoscona oaxacensis (Keyserling, 1864) | | USA to Peru, Galapagos urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016731
Epeira oaxacensis Keyserling, 1864: 121, pl. 5, f. 15-16 (Df) Original description
Epeira cooksonii Butler, 1877: 76, pl. 13, f. 2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060910]
Epeira adiantoides Taczanowski, 1878b: 148, pl. 1, f. 4 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060897]
Epeira vertebrata McCook, 1888b: 196, f. 6-10 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066895]
Epeira oaxensis Keyserling, 1893: 238, pl. 12, f. 178 (f)
Epeira vertebrata McCook, 1894: 151, pl. 3, f. 6-7, pl. 4, f. 1, pl. 5, f. 4 (mf)
Araneus adiantoides Simon, 1897e: 2
Neoscona conifera F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 469, pl. 44, f. 6-7 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060909]
Neoscona oaxacensis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 468, pl. 44, f. 4-5 (mf, S of Epeira vertebrata)
Neoscona cooksoni F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 473, pl. 44, f. 16 (f)
Araneus coniferus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 286
Araneus oaxacensis Petrunkevitch, 1911: 307
Araneus cooksoni Petrunkevitch, 1911: 286
Neoscona salaeria Chamberlin, 1920c: 167, f. 1-2 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060972]
Neoscona naiba Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1929: 104, pl. 4, f. 46-48 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060952]
Neoscona oaxacensis Petrunkevitch, 1930a: 322, f. 200-204 (mf)
Aranea naiba Roewer, 1942a: 862
Aranea salaeria Roewer, 1942a: 863
Neoscona lativulva Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942a: 78, f. 221-222 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060941]
Neoscona cooksoni Roth & Craig, 1970: 116, 120
Neoscona oaxacensis Berman & Levi, 1971: 486, f. 4, 9, 11, 78-90, 129 (mf, T from Araneus, S of Araneus adiantoides, A. conifer, A. cooksoni, A. salaerius and Neoscona lativulva)
Neoscona oaxacensis Levi, 1973: 478 (S of Araneus naiba)
Neoscona oaxacensis Barrion et al., 1988a: 396, f. 4a-g, 9d (f; presumably misidentified)
Neoscona oaxacensis Levi, 1993a: 233, f. 22-25 (mf)
Neoscona oaxacensis Baert et al., 2023: 7, f. 18A-C, 19A-B (mf)
Neoscona oaxacensis Sherwood et al., 2026c: 9, f. 2A-C (m)
Neoscona odites (Simon, 1906) | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016732
Araneus odites Simon, 1906c: 308 (Df) Original description
Neoscona odites Tikader & Bal, 1981: 36, f. 77-80 (f, T from Araneus)
Neoscona odites Tikader, 1982a: 274, f. 547-550 (f)
Neoscona oriemindoroana Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 | | Philippines urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016733
Neoscona oriemindoroana Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 624, f. 393a-f (Dm) Original description
Neoscona orizabensis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904 | | Mexico urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016735
Neoscona orizabensis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 473, pl. 44, f. 17 (Df) Original description
Neoscona amulensis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 472, pl. 44, f. 15 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060901]
Araneus amulensis Petrunkevitch, 1911: 278
Araneus orizabensis Petrunkevitch, 1911: 307
Neoscona orizabensis Berman & Levi, 1971: 484, f. 7, 59-67, 133 (mf, T from Araneus, S of Araneus amulensis)
Neoscona panchganiensis (Tikader & Bal, 1981) | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015090
Araneus panchganiensis Tikader & Bal, 1981: 48, f. 103-106 (Df) Original description
Araneus pachganiensis Tikader, 1982a: 227, f. 440-443 (f)
Neoscona panchganiensis Shilpa, Anis & Sudhikumar, 2025: 449, f. 1A-C, 2A-D (f, T from Araneus)
Neoscona parambikulamensis Patel, 2003 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041051
Neoscona parambikulamensis Patel, 2003: 1209, f. 7-11 (Df) Original description
Neoscona pavida (Simon, 1906) | | Pakistan, India, China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016736
Araneus pavidus Simon, 1906c: 309 (Df) Original description
Araneus pavidus Dyal, 1935: 184, pl. 16, f. 126 (f)
Neoscona pavida Tikader & Bal, 1981: 38, f. 81-94 (f, T from Araneus)
Neoscona pavida Tikader, 1982a: 276, f. 551-554 (f)
Neoscona pavida Hu & Li, 1987a: 333, f. 14.1-4 (f)
Neoscona pavida Yin et al., 1997d: 369, f. 263a-d (f)
Neoscona pavida Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 300, f. 176S-U, 180M (f)
Neoscona pavida Hu, 2001: 467, f. 308.1-4 (f)
Neoscona penicillipes (Karsch, 1879) | | Guinea to Rwanda, Malawi, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016737
Epeira penicillipes Karsch, 1879e: 836, pl. 11, f. 6 (Dm) Original description
Araneus pachanus Pocock, 1898e: 447, pl. 13, f. 9 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060962]
Aranea bioculata Thorell, 1899: 44 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060906]
Aranea varians Thorell, 1899: 49 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060994]
Araneus haematocnemis Pocock, 1900g: 850, pl. 56, f. 8 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060926]
Aranea leimenstolli Strand, 1906h: 57 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060942]
Araneus varians Simon, 1907d: 289
Aranea haematocnemis Strand, 1913a: 380
Aranea haematocnemis antepicta Strand, 1913a: 380 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060973]
Aranea haematocnemis constrictifascia Strand, 1913a: 381 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060974]
Aranea haematocnemis decoratella Strand, 1913a: 381 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060975]
Aranea haematocnemis indistinctepicta Strand, 1913a: 381 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060976]
Aranea haematocnemis lanceolatella Strand, 1913a: 381 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060977]
Aranea haematocnemis monotonia Strand, 1913a: 381 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060978]
Aranea haematocnemis nigrofoliata Strand, 1913a: 381 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060979]
Aranea haematocnemis recurvata Strand, 1913a: 381 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060980]
Aranea sanguinipes antepicta Roewer, 1942a: 813
Aranea sanguinipes constrictifascia Roewer, 1942a: 813
Aranea sanguinipes decoratella Roewer, 1942a: 813
Aranea sanguinipes indistinctepicta Roewer, 1942a: 813
Aranea sanguinipes lanceolatella Roewer, 1942a: 813
Aranea sanguinipes monotonia Roewer, 1942a: 813
Aranea sanguinipes nigrifoliata Roewer, 1942a: 814
Aranea sanguinipes recurvata Roewer, 1942a: 814
Afraranea sanguipes Archer, 1951a: 22, f. 43 (m, T from Araneus)
Neoscona penicillipes Grasshoff, 1986: 78, f. 1, 3, 6, 9-10, 113-123 (mf, removed from S of Araneus semiannulatus [rejecting Thorell, 1899: 49, see Neoscona rufipalpis], S of Araneus bioculatus, A. haematocnemis [removed from S of A. sanguipes, rejecting Lessert, 1930: 645], A. leimenstolli, A. pachanus, A. sanguipes antepictus, A. s. constrictifascius, A. s. decoratellus, A. s. indistinctepictus, A. s. lanceolatellus, A. s. monotonius, A. s. nigrofoliatus, A. s. recurvatus and A. varians)
Neoscona penicillipes Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 9, 10 f. (f)
Neoscona piaoyi Mi, Wang & Li, 2024 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063450
Neoscona piaoyi Mi, Wang & Li, 2024: 308, f. 22A-J, 23A-D, 24A-E (Dmf) Original description
Neoscona platnicki Gajbe & Gajbe, 2001 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:037691
Neoscona platnicki Gajbe & Gajbe, 2000c: 119, f. 1-4 (Df) Original description
Neoscona platnicki Gajbe, 2004d: 51, f. 43-46 (f)
Neoscona plebeja (L. Koch, 1871) | | Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu (Funafuti), Austral Is. (Rapa) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016738
Epeira plebeja L. Koch, 1871: 69, p. 6, f. 10 (Df) Original description
Araneus plebejus Berland, 1935: 60, f. 49-53 (f)
Neoscona plebeja Ledoux & Hallé, 1995: 5, f. 3A-D (mf, T from Araneus)
Neoscona pratensis (Hentz, 1847) | | Canada, USA urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016740
Epeira pratensis Hentz, 1847: 475, pl. 31, f. 11 (Df) Original description
Epeira pratensis Emerton, 1884: 310, pl. 33, f. 15, pl. 36, f. 9 (Dm, f)
Epeira pratensis Keyserling, 1892: 184, pl. 9, f. 136 (f)
Epeira pratensis McCook, 1894: 142, pl. 1, f. 6 (mf)
Epeira pratensis Emerton, 1902: 167, f. 396 (mf)
Araneus pratensis Petrunkevitch, 1911: 310
Neoscona pratensis Crosby & Bishop, 1928b: 1056
Neoscona pratensis Berman & Levi, 1971: 494, f. 101-110, 134 (mf, T from Araneus)
Neoscona pratensis Barrion et al., 1988a: 398, f. 5a-g, 9e (f; probably misidentified)
Neoscona pratensis Dondale et al., 2003: 169, f. 355-362 (mf)
Neoscona pseudonautica Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 | | China, Korea urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016741
Neoscona pseudonautica Yin et al., 1990: 107, f. 262-269 (Dmf) Original description
Neoscona pseudonautica Yin et al., 1997d: 353, f. 249a-k (mf)
Neoscona pseudonautica Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 300, f. 176Y-Z, A', 179F, 180O (mf)
Neoscona pseudonautica Namkung & Kim, 1999: 234, f. 1A-H (mf)
Neoscona pseudonautica Namkung, 2002: 261, f. 19.23a-d (mf)
Neoscona pseudonautica Kim & Kim, 2002: 217, f. 60-61, 144-146, 267-272 (mf)
Neoscona pseudonautica Namkung, 2003: 262, f. 19.22a-d (mf)
Neoscona pseudonautica Zhu & Zhang, 2011: 240, f. 172A-E (mf)
Neoscona pseudonautica Yin et al., 2012: 737, f. 366a-k (mf)
Neoscona pseudonautica Kim & Lee, 2012b: 94, f. 68A-D, pl. 16 (mf)
Neoscona pseudoscylla (Schenkel, 1953) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016742
Araneus pseudoscylla Schenkel, 1953b: 47, f. 22a-c (Dm) Original description
Neoscona pseudoscylla Zhu, 1983: 34 (T from Araneus)
Neoscona pseudoscylla Yin et al., 1997d: 355, f. 250a-h (m, Df)
Neoscona pseudoscylla Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 300, f. 177A-C, 179G, 181A (mf)
Neoscona pseudoscylla Song, Zhu & Chen, 2001: 219, f. 133A-F (mf)
Neoscona punctigera (Doleschall, 1857) | | Reunion, India, Myanmar, China, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea, Australia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016743
Epeira punctigera Doleschall, 1857: 420 (Df) Original description
Epeira manipa Doleschall, 1857: 419 (Df)
Epeira indagatrix L. Koch, 1871: 66, pl. 5, f. 8-9 (Dmf)
Epeira vatia Thorell, 1877b: 382 (Dm)
Epeira opima L. Koch, 1878c: 740, pl. 15, f. 3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060961]
Epeira slateri Butler, 1880: 730, pl. 58, f. 1 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060984]
Epeira ephippiata Thorell, 1881: 101 (Dm)
Epeira paviei Simon, 1886a: 150 (Df)
Epeira punctigera Thorell, 1887: 181 (S of Epeira ephippiata and E. vatia)
Epeira punctigera trabeata Thorell, 1887: 181 (Df)
Epeira punctigera Keyserling, 1892: 136, pl. 7, f. 100 (f)
Epeira punctigera McCook, 1894: 163, pl. 6, f. 4 (mf)
Araneus lugubris Simon, 1895a: 828 (misidentified per Grasshoff, 1980: 403, S of Epeira indagatrix, E. manipa, E. paviei, E. punctigera [revalidated by Grasshoff, 1980: 403, see Neoscona punctigera] and E. triangula [revalidated by Grasshoff, 1980: 397, see N. triangula])
Epeira punctigera Workman, 1896: 48, pl. 48 (mf)
Aranea punctigera Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 230, pl. 11, f. 206 (mf)
Aranea opima Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 231, pl. 11, f. 221 (f)
Neoscona opima Yaginuma, 1955a: 19, pl. 1, f. 8, 12 (mf, T from Araneus)
Catheistela opima Yaginuma & Archer, 1959: 36 (lapsus, T from Neoscona)
Araneus opimus Yaginuma, 1960: 53, f. 50.5 (f)
Araneus lugubris Chrysanthus, 1960: 36, f. 39-42, 45, 69 (mf; misidentified per Grasshoff, 1980: 403)
Araneus parascylla Schenkel, 1963: 147, f. 86a-c, 87a-b (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060963]
Araneus lugubris Lee, 1966: 38, f. 9g-l (f)
Araneus lugubris Yaginuma, 1967b: 89, f. 1e-f (mf, S of Neoscona opima; misidentified sensu Grasshoff, 1980: 403)
Araneus lugubris Yaginuma, 1971: 53, f. 50.5 (f; misidentified sensu Grasshoff, 1980: 403)
Araneus lugubris Patel, 1975b: 160, f. 2a-c (f)
Afraranea punctigera Grasshoff, 1980: 403, f. 5-7 (mf, T from Araneus, removed from S of A. lugubris Walckenaer, 1841 [rejecting Simon, 1895a: 828], S of Araneus slateri)
Neoscona lugubris Tikader & Bal, 1981: 20, f. 36-39 (f, T from Araneus; misidentified sensu Grasshoff, 1980: 403)
Neoscona lugubris Tikader, 1982a: 255, f. 506-509 (f; misidentified sensu Grasshoff, 1980: 403)
Neoscona punctigera Roberts, 1983: 275, f. 205-208 (mf, T from Afraranea)
Araneus lugubris Hu, 1984: 94, f. 88.1-5 (f; misidentified sensu Grasshoff, 1980: 403)
Neoscona punctigera Grasshoff, 1986: 117 (S of Araneus parascylla)
Araneus punctigera Yaginuma, 1986a: 98, f. 52.1 (mf)
Araneus punctigera Chikuni, 1989b: 67, f. 16 (mf)
Araneus lugubris Chen & Gao, 1990: 45, f. 49a-b (f)
Neoscona punctigera Yin et al., 1997d: 360, f. 256a-h (mf)
Neoscona punctigera Tanikawa, 1998b: 159, f. 88-90, 93-99 (mf)
Neoscona punctigera Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 300, f. 177D-F, 179H, 181B (mf)
Neoscona punctigera Namkung, 2002: 264, f. 19.26a-c (mf)
Neoscona punctigera Kim & Kim, 2002: 218, f. 62, 147-148, 273-275 (mf)
Neoscona punctigera Namkung, 2003: 266, f. 19.26a-c (mf)
Neoscona punctigera Tanikawa, 2007c: 72, f. 191-196, 598-601 (mf)
Neoscona punctigera Barrion-Dupo, 2008: 236, f. 1B-E, 2B (f)
Neoscona punctigera Tanikawa, 2009: 445, f. 177-180 (mf)
Neoscona punctigera Saaristo, 2010: 41, f. 4.47-50 (mf)
Neoscona punctigera Yin et al., 2012: 738, f. 367a-h (mf)
Neoscona punctigera Kim & Lee, 2012b: 96, f. 69A-C (mf)
Neoscona punctigera Baba & Tanikawa, 2015: 67, 4 f. (mf)
Neoscona punctigera Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2017: 24, f. 149-154, 194 (f)
Neoscona punctigera Basu, Roy & Raychaudhuri, 2017: 65, f. vi-xi, 6-11 (f)
Neoscona quadrigibbosa Grasshoff, 1986 | | Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016744
Neoscona quadrigibbosa Grasshoff, 1986: 112, f. 165-171 (Dmf) Original description
Neoscona quadrigibbosa Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 10, 5 f. (f)
Neoscona quincasea Roberts, 1983 | | Cabo Verde, DR Congo, Rwanda, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Seychelles (Aldabra, Assumption) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016745
Neoscona quincasea Roberts, 1983: 269, f. 183-191 (Dmf) Original description
Neoscona quincasea Grasshoff, 1986: 24, f. 25-30 (mf)
Neoscona quincasea Saaristo, 2010: 40, f. 4.54-60 (mf)
Neoscona quincasea Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 11, 8 f. (f)
Neoscona rahamani Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2013 | | Bangladesh urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047577
Neoscona rahamani Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2013c: 175, f. 56-61 (Df) Original description
Neoscona rapta (Thorell, 1899) | | Liberia to Kenya, South Africa. Introduced to St. Helena urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016746
Aranea rapta Thorell, 1899: 51 (Dmf) Original description
Araneus lambarenensis Simon, 1907d: 293 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060937]
Neoscona rapta Grasshoff, 1986: 100, f. 146-150 (mf, T from Araneus, S of Araneus lambarenensis)
Neoscona rapta Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 12, 8 f. (f)
Neoscona rapta Sherwood et al., 2025b: 60, f. 1J-N (m)
Neoscona raydakensis Saha, Biswas, Majumder & Raychaudhuri, 1995 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016747
Neoscona raydakensis Saha et al., 1995: 12, f. 1-8 (Df) Original description
Neoscona rufipalpis (Lucas, 1858) | | Cape Verde, St. Helena, Sub-Saharan Africa, Yemen urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016748
Epeira rufipalpis Lucas, 1858: 422 (Df) Original description
Epeira semiannulata Karsch, 1879a: 334 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066893]
Epeira semiannulata Simon, 1884k: 14, pl. 1, f. 7-8 (Dm, f)
Aranea semi-annulata Thorell, 1899: 49 (S of Epeira penicillipes [revalidated by Grasshoff, 1986: 78, see Neoscona penicillipes] and E. kersteni [removed from S by Grasshoff, 1986: 84, see Neoscona triangula)
Araneus rufipalpis Pocock, 1900g: 849
Aranea rufipalpis Strand, 1908e: 287
Aranea rufipalpis Tullgren, 1910: 163, pl. 4, f. 107 (f)
Araneus rufipalpis Lessert, 1930: 644, f. 19 (f, S of Aranea semiannulata)
Afraranea rufipalpis Archer, 1951a: 22 (T from Araneus)
Neoscona rufipalpis Grasshoff, 1986: 73, f. 101-112 (mf)
Neoscona rufipalpis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 13, p. 13: 10 f., p. 14: 2 f. (f)
Neoscona rufipalpis Dippenaar-Schoeman & Webb, 2024a: 25, f. 1-12, 18-21 (f)
Neoscona rufipalpis buettnerana (Strand, 1908) | | Cameroon, Togo urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016749
Aranea rufipalpis büttnerana Strand, 1908e: 271, 288, 293 (Dmf) Original description
Neoscona rufipalpis buettnerana Nentwig et al., 2019: 34 (subspecies inquirenda)
Neoscona sanghi Gajbe, 2004 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040043
Neoscona sanghi Gajbe, 2004d: 52, f. 47-48 (Dm) Original description
Neoscona sanjivani Gajbe, 2004 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040044
Neoscona sanjivani Gajbe, 2004d: 54, f. 49-52 (Df) Original description
Neoscona scylla (Karsch, 1879) | | Pakistan, Nepal, China, Russia (Far East), Korea, Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016750
Epeira scylla Karsch, 1879g: 71 (Df) Original description
Aranea scylla Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 215, pl. 11, f. 202, 220 (Dm, f)
Chinestela gisti Chamberlin, 1924a: 20, pl. 5, f. 37 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060924]
Araneus scyllus Saito, 1939: 20, f. 3(3) (mf)
Araneus scylla nigromaculatus Yaginuma, 1941a: 122, f. 1 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060981]
Neoscona scylla Yaginuma, 1955a: 18, pl. 1, f. 9, 16 (mf, removed from S of Neoscona theisi)
Araneus scyllus Saito, 1959: 89, f. 101a-i (mf)
Neoscona scylla Yaginuma, 1960: 56, f. 52.1 (mf)
Neoscona scylla Shimojana, 1967: 18, f. 9 (m)
Neoscona scylla Yaginuma, 1971: 56, f. 52.2 (mf)
Neoscona scylla Hikichi, 1977: 154, f. 38 (f)
Neoscona scylla Nishikawa, 1977c: 32 (S of Araneus scylla nigromaculatus)
Neoscona scylla Paik, 1978e: 107, f. 25.1 (f)
Neoscona scylla Hu, 1984: 125, f. 125.1-4 (mf)
Neoscona scylla Zhu & Shi, 1985: 82, f. 70a-d (f)
Neoscona scylla Yaginuma, 1986a: 103, f. 55.5 (mf)
Neoscona scylla Song, 1988: 129, f. 8C (f, S of Neoscona gisti and N. multiplicans; N. multiplicans revalidated by Song, Chen & Zhu, 1997: 1715; f. 8A-B see Neoscona multiplicans)
Neoscona scylla Chikuni, 1989b: 71, f. 30 (mf)
Neoscona scylla Feng, 1990: 93, f. 68.1-5 (mf)
Neoscona scylla Chen & Gao, 1990: 67, f. 84a-b (mf)
Neoscona scylla Chen & Zhang, 1991: 116, f. 110.1-3 (mf)
Neoscona scylla Zhao, 1993: 255, f. 118a-c (mf)
Neoscona scylla Zhao, 1995: 973, f. 457a-c (mf)
Neoscona scylla Song, Chen & Zhu, 1997: 1717, f. 19a-c (mf)
Neoscona scylla Yin et al., 1997d: 370, f. 264a-i (mf)
Neoscona scylla Tanikawa, 1998b: 155, f. 70-82 (mf)
Neoscona scylla Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 300, f. 177G-H, 179I (mf)
Neoscona scylla Namkung, 2002: 262, f. 19.24a-d (mf)
Neoscona scylla Kim & Kim, 2002: 219, f. 149, 276-277 (mf)
Neoscona scylla Kim & Cho, 2002: 269, f. 679-684 (f)
Neoscona scylla Namkung, 2002: 264, f. 19.24a-d (mf)
Neoscona scylla Yoo & Kim, 2002a: 28, f. 53 (m)
Neoscona scylla Tanikawa, 2007c: 70, f. 181-189, 594-596 (mf)
Neoscona scylla Tanikawa, 2009: 445, f. 173-175 (mf)
Neoscona scylla Zhu & Zhang, 2011: 241, f. 173A-C (mf)
Neoscona scylla Yin et al., 2012: 740, f. 368a-i (mf)
Neoscona scylla Kim & Lee, 2012b: 97, f. 70A-H, pl. 17-19 (mf)
Neoscona scylla Baba & Tanikawa, 2015: 66, 7 f. (mf)
Neoscona scylloides (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) | | Russia (Far East), Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016751
Aranea scylloides Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 217, pl. 4, f. 26, pl. 11, f. 209 (Dmf) Original description
Araneus scylloides Saito, 1939: 21, f. 3(4) (mf)
Araneus scylloides Yaginuma, 1940: 123, f. 3.1-4 (f, removed from S of N. theisi)
Araneus scylloides Nakatsudi, 1942a: 305, f. 8-11 (f)
Neoscona scylloides Yaginuma, 1955a: 18, pl. I, f. 10, 13 (mf)
Araneus scylloides Saito, 1959: 89, f. 102a-f (f)
Neoscona scylloides Yaginuma, 1960: 57, f. 53 (f)
Araneus scylloides Schenkel, 1963: 145, f. 85 (f)
Neoscona scylloides Lee, 1966: 41, f. 11g-h (f)
Neoscona scylloides Yaginuma, 1966e: 23, f. 2 (m)
Neoscona scylloides Yaginuma, 1971: 57, f. 53 (f)
Neoscona scylloides Matsumoto, 1973b: 41, f. 12, 14 (f)
Neoscona scylloides Hu, 1984: 124, f. 124.1-2 (f)
Neoscona scylloides Yaginuma, 1986a: 103, f. 55.1 (f)
Neoscona scylloides Chikuni, 1989b: 73, f. 34 (mf)
Neoscona scylloides Feng, 1990: 94, f. 69.1-2 (f)
Neoscona scylloides Chen & Gao, 1990: 67, f. 85 (f)
Neoscona scylloides Chen & Zhang, 1991: 116, f. 111.1-3 (f)
Neoscona scylloides Zhao, 1993: 257, f. 119 (f)
Neoscona scylloides Zhao, 1995: 973, f. 458 (f)
Neoscona scylloides Yin et al., 1997d: 371, f. 265a-g (mf)
Neoscona scylloides Tanikawa, 1998b: 153, f. 38, 62-68 (mf)
Neoscona scylloides Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 301, f. 177I-K, 179J, 181C (mf)
Neoscona scylloides Namkung, 2002: 267, f. 19.29a-c (mf)
Neoscona scylloides Kim & Kim, 2002: 220, f. 63, 150, 278-280 (mf)
Neoscona scylloides Namkung, 2003: 269, f. 19.29a-c (mf)
Neoscona scylloides Tanikawa, 2007c: 70, f. 177-180, 591-593 (mf)
Neoscona scylloides Tanikawa, 2009: 445, f. 170-172 (mf)
Neoscona scylloides Zhu & Zhang, 2011: 242, f. 174A-E (mf)
Neoscona scylloides Yin et al., 2012: 742, f. 369a-g (mf)
Neoscona scylloides Kim & Lee, 2012b: 99, f. 71A-D, pl. 20 (mf)
Neoscona scylloides Marusik et al., 2015: 209, f. 17-28 (mf)
Neoscona scylloides Baba & Tanikawa, 2015: 64, 5 f. (mf)
Neoscona scylloides Suzuki & Nakama, 2021: 33, f. 2-3, 6-7 (mf)
Neoscona semilunaris (Karsch, 1879) | | China, Korea, Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016752
Atea semilunaris Karsch, 1879g: 73, pl. 1, f. 7 (Df) Original description
Aranea semilunaris Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 220, pl. 11, f. 201, 228 (Dm, f)
Araneus semilunaris Yaginuma, 1960: 55, f. 51 (mf)
Araneus semilunaris Yaginuma, 1971: 55, f. 51 (mf)
Araneus semilunaris Yaginuma, 1986a: 100, f. 53.3 (mf)
Araneus semilunaris Chikuni, 1989b: 69, f. 22 (mf)
Araneus semilunaris Chen & Gao, 1990: 47, f. 52a-b (mf)
Neoscona semilunaris Yin et al., 1997d: 372, f. 266a-d (mf, T from Araneus)
Neoscona semilunaris Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 301, f. 177L-N, 181D (f)
Araneus semilunaris Namkung, 2002: 255, f. 19.17a-b (mf)
Neoscona semilunaris Namkung, 2003: 263, f. 19.23a-b (mf)
Araneus semilunaris Tanikawa, 2007c: 83, f. 244, 686-688 (mf)
Araneus semilunaris Tanikawa, 2009: 455, f. 262-264 (mf)
Neoscona semilunaris Zhu & Zhang, 2011: 243, f. 175A-D (f)
Neoscona semilunaris Yin et al., 2012: 744, f. 370a-d (f)
Neoscona semilunaris Kim & Lee, 2012b: 100, f. 72A-C (mf)
Neoscona shillongensis Tikader & Bal, 1981 | | Pakistan, India, China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016753
Neoscona shillongensis Tikader & Bal, 1981: 34, f. 73-76 (Df) Original description
Neoscona shillongensis Tikader, 1982a: 272, f. 543-546 (f)
Neoscona shillongensis Hu & Li, 1987a: 334, f. 15.1-4, 16.1-2 (Dm, f)
Neoscona shillongensis Yin et al., 1990: 126, f. 310-312 (f)
Neoscona shillongensis Yin et al., 1997d: 373, f. 267a-i (mf)
Neoscona shillongensis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 301, f. 177O-Q, 179K, 181E (mf)
Neoscona shillongensis Hu, 2001: 469, f. 309.1-4 (mf)
Neoscona simoni Grasshoff, 1986 | | Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), Cameroon, DR Congo, Rwanda urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016754
Araneus nigritus fernandensis Simon, 1907d: 290 (Df, preoccupied by Simon, 1907, see Neoscona triangula) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054764]
Neoscona simoni Grasshoff, 1986: 115, f. 172-174 (f; replacement name) Original description
Neoscona sinhagadensis (Tikader, 1975) | | India, Pakistan, China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016755
Araneus sinhagadensis Tikader, 1975b: 146, f. 4-7 (Dmf) Original description
Neoscona sinhagadensis Tikader & Bal, 1981: 30, f. 63-67 (mf, T from Araneus)
Neoscona sinhagadensis Tikader, 1982a: 267, f. 533-537 (mf)
Neoscona sinhagadensis Hu & Li, 1987a: 336, f. 17.1-4 (f)
Neoscona sinhagadensis Yin et al., 1997d: 275, f. 268a-d (f)
Neoscona sinhagadensis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 301, f. 177R-T, 181F (f)
Neoscona sinhagadensis Hu, 2001: 470, f. 310.1-4 (f)
Neoscona spasskyi (Brignoli, 1983) | | Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Armenia), Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051611
Araneus cruciferoides Spassky, 1952: 203, f. 6, 10 (Dmf, preoccupied by Tullgren, 1910, see Neoscona triangula) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054763]
Araneus spasskyi Brignoli, 1983c: 258 (replacement name for Araneus cruciferoides) Original description
Neoscona spasskyi Zamani, Marusik & Šestáková, 2020: 30, f. 11C, 12A-B, 13C-D, 14C,E, 15A-C, 16A-C, 17D-F (mf, removed from S of Neoscona tedgenica, contra Marusik, Tarabaev & Litovchenko, 1991: 20)
Neoscona theisi Zamani, Marusik & Šestáková, 2020: 38, f. 12C-D, 13A-B (f; misidentified per Zamani, Nadolny & Dolejš, 2022: 554)
Neoscona spasskyi Seropian, Otto & Bulbulashvili, 2023: 155, f. 36-38, Suppl.: 3 f. (f)
Neoscona stanleyi (Lessert, 1930) | | DR Congo urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016757
Araneus stanleyi Lessert, 1930: 653, f. 26-27 (Dmf) Original description
Afraranea stanleyi Archer, 1951a: 22 (T from Araneus)
Neoscona strigatella (Strand, 1908) | | Tanzania urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015215
Aranea rufipalpis strigatella Strand, 1908e: 294 (Df) Original description
Aranea strigatella Roewer, 1942a: 814
Neoscona strigatella Nentwig et al., 2019: 34 (T from Araneus, species inquirenda)
Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837) | | Southern Europe, St. Helena, Africa, Turkey, Middle East, Ukraine, Caucasus, Russia (Europe) to Central Asia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016758
Atea subfusca C. L. Koch, 1837b: 4 (D) Original description
Atea subfusca C. L. Koch, 1844: 140, f. 939 (Df)
Epeira dalmatica Doleschall, 1852: 648 (Df)
Epeira blanda Blackwall, 1865a: 95 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060907]
Epeira impedita L. Koch, 1867c: 859 (Df)
Epeira illibata Simon, 1870b: 312 (Dm)
Epeira perplicata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 300 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060965]
Epeira illibata Simon, 1873a: 169, pl. 3, f. 2 (m)
Epeira limans Thorell, 1875a: 81 (Dm)
Epeira limans Thorell, 1875c: 7 (m)
Epeira subfusca Lebert, 1877: 128
Epeira radulans Pavesi, 1883: 11 (Dm)
Epeira dalmatica Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1891: 129, pl. 5, f. 6 (mf)
Aranea nigrita Thorell, 1899: 52 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060956]
Aranea submodesta Strand, 1906b: 621 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060987]
Aranea submodesta neumanni Strand, 1906b: 683 (Df)
Araneus arganicola Simon, 1909b: 26 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014718]
Araneus occidaneus Simon, 1907d: 295, f. 3B (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060960]
Araneus mesonauta Simon, 1907d: 290, f. 1C (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060948]
Araneus dalmaticus minor Simon, 1908a: 430 (D)
Aranea submodesta Strand, 1908g: 402
Aranea restiaria Tullgren, 1910: 166, pl. 4, f. 117 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060969]
Aranea restiaria obscura Tullgren, 1910: 166 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060970]
Aranea artifex Tullgren, 1910: 166, pl. 4, f. 118 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060904]
Araneus dalmaticus Lessert, 1910b: 312
Aranea dalmatica Strand, 1915c: 146
Araneus dalmaticus Simon, 1929: 696, 763, f. 1078-1080 (mf)
Araneus hoffmanni Schenkel, 1937: 384, f. 5 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060929]
Neoscona albobitriangulosa Caporiacco, 1939a: 341, f. 12 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060899]
Araneus artifex Caporiacco, 1940c: 828 (Dm)
Araneus perplicatus Caporiacco, 1940c: 829
Neoscona perplicata Caporiacco, 1941b: 91, f. 25a-d (Dm, f, T from Araneus)
Neoscona immodesta Caporiacco, 1941b: 93, f. 26a-c (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060930]
Neoscona submodesta neumanni Caporiacco, 1941b: 94 (T from Araneus)
Araneus aballensis angustifolius Caporiacco, 1941b: 96 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060891]
Araneus aballensis foliatus Caporiacco, 1941b: 96 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060893]
Araneus aballensis subconcolor Caporiacco, 1941b: 96 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060895]
Araneus aballensis albozonatus Caporiacco, 1941b: 97 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060890]
Araneus aballensis bimaculatus Caporiacco, 1941b: 97 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060892]
Araneus aballensis nigricans Caporiacco, 1941b: 97 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060894]
Araneus granatae Caporiacco, 1941b: 97, f. 27, 28a-b (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060925]
Aranea dalmatica Drensky, 1943: 241, f. 17 (m)
Neoscona artifex Caporiacco, 1947c: 169 (T from Araneus)
Araneus tullgreni Caporiacco, 1947c: 173, f. 30 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060992]
Araneus tullgreni obscuratus Caporiacco, 1947c: 174 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060993]
Neoscona wiehlei Caporiacco, 1949a: 414, f. 56a-c (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060995]
Neoscona submodesta neumanni Caporiacco, 1949a: 416 (S of Neoscona immodesta)
Araneus airensis Denis, 1955b: 135, f. 41-44 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060898]
Araneus subfuscus Fuhn & Oltean, 1969: 166, pl. II, f. 1-2 (mf)
Neoscona parva Schmidt, 1973: 370, f. 6-7 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060964]
Neoscona parva Schmidt, 1975a: 509, f. 4
Neoscona subfusca Grasshoff, 1980: 406 (T from Araneus, S of Neoscona artifex)
Araneus granatai Brignoli, 1983c: 260
Neoscona dalmatica Morano & Ferrández, 1986: 175, f. 9-11 (mf)
Neoscona subfusca Grasshoff, 1986: 15, f. 2, 4, 11-24 (mf, S of Araneus aballensis albozonatus, A. a. angustifolius, A. a. bimaculatus, A. a. foliatus, A. a. nigricans, A. a. subconcolor, A. albobitriangulosus, A. blandus, A. granatae, A. hoffmanni, A. mesonauta, A. nigritus, A. occidaneus, A. restiarius, A. r. obscurus, A. submodestus, A. tullgreni, A. t. obscuratus, Neoscona parva and N. wiehlei)
Neoscona subfusca Levy, 1998a: 336, f. 96-107 (mf, S of Neoscona perplicata)
Neoscona subfusca Saaristo, 2010: 43, f. 4.35-38 (mf)
Neoscona subfusca Soliman et al., 2018: 152, pl. 11D-F, 12A (mf)
Neoscona subfusca Bosmans & Hervé, 2021: 58, f. 1a-g (mf, S of Araneus arganicola)
Neoscona subfusca Pintilioaie & Urák, 2022a: 2, f. 4a-c (f)
Neoscona subfusca Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 15, p. 15: 3 f., p. 16: 9 f., p. 17: 2 f. (f)
Neoscona subfusca Stanković, 2023: 606, f. 3 (m)
Neoscona subfusca Morano, 2023: 100, f. 100-103 (mf)
Neoscona subfusca Najim & Al-Esa, 2025: 4168, f. 3A-F, 4A-F, 5A-G (mf)
Neoscona subfusca Zonstein, 2025b: 292, f. 33-34 (m)
Neoscona subfusca alboplagiata Caporiacco, 1947 | j | Tanzania urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016759
Neoscona artifex alboplagiata Caporiacco, 1947c: 169 (Dj) Original description
Neoscona subfusca pallidior (Thorell, 1899) | | Equatorial Guinea (Bioko) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016760
Aranea nigrita pallidior Thorell, 1899: 52 (Df) Original description
Neoscona subpullata (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) | | China, Korea, Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016761
Aranea subpullata Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 234, pl. 11, f. 232-233 (Df) Original description
Neoscona subpullata Yaginuma, 1955a: 20, pl. I, f. 4 (f, T from Araneus)
Araneus subpullatus Yaginuma, 1960: 52, f. 48 (f)
Araneus subpullatus Paik, 1970b: 85, f. 2-4 (f)
Araneus subpullatus Yaginuma, 1971: 52, f. 48 (f)
Neoscona subpullata Yaginuma, 1986a: 105, f. 55.8 (f)
Neoscona subpullata Ma & Tu, 1987: 52, f. 2 (f)
Neoscona subpullata Chikuni, 1989b: 70, f. 29 (Dm, f)
Neoscona subpullatus Chen & Gao, 1990: 68, f. 86 (f)
Neoscona subpullata Yin et al., 1997d: 355, f. 251a-c (f)
Neoscona subpullata Tanikawa, 1998b: 148, f. 34-36, 46-52 (mf)
Neoscona subpullata Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 301, f. 177U, 181G (f)
Neoscona subpullata Song, Zhu & Chen, 2001: 220, f. 134A-C (f)
Neoscona subpullata Namkung, 2002: 270, f. 19.32a-b (mf)
Neoscona subpullata Kim & Kim, 2002: 221, f. 64, 281 (f)
Neoscona subpullata Namkung, 2003: 272, f. 19.32a-b (mf)
Neoscona subpullata Tanikawa, 2007c: 69, f. 164-171, 585-587 (mf)
Neoscona subpullata Tanikawa, 2009: 443, f. 164-166 (mf)
Neoscona subpullata Kim & Lee, 2012b: 101, f. 73A-D (mf)
Neoscona tedgenica (Bakhvalov, 1978) | | Turkmenistan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016762
Araneus tedgenicus Bakhvalov, 1978: 790, f. 1-4 (Df) Original description
Aculepeira tedgenica Brignoli, 1983c: 255 (T from Araneus)
Neoscona tedgenica Marusik, Tarabaev & Litovchenko, 1991: 20 (T from Aculepeira, S of Araneus spasskyi, rejected by Zamani, Marusik & Šestáková, 2020: 30)
Neoscona theisi (Walckenaer, 1841) | | Cyprus, Israel, Caucasus (Russia, Georgia), Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Myanmar, Japan, China to Indonesia, Philippines, Australia. Introduced to Seychelles, Pacific Is. urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016763
Epeira theis Walckenaer, 1841: 53, pl. 18, f. 4 (Df; the spelling theisi is maintained here for reasons of stability) Original description
Epeira mangareva Walckenaer, 1847a: 469 (Df)
Epeira assidua Vinson, 1863: 180, 310 (Df)
Epeira braminica Stoliczka, 1869: 238, pl. 20, f. 8 (Df)
Epeira mangareva L. Koch, 1871: 85, pl. 7, f. 4 (Dm, f)
Epeira theisii Thorell, 1877b: 390
Epeira theisii Thorell, 1878b: 65
Epeira eclipsis Marx, 1893: 590, pl. 70, f. 6a-b (Df)
Epeira theisi Simon, 1893h: 207 (S of Epeira bramanica, E. mangareva and E. moreli [revalidated by Grasshoff, 1980: 407, sub Neoscona])
Epeira ventricosa Rainbow, 1897a: 110, pl. 2, f. 4 (Df)
Epeira longispina Rainbow, 1897a: 111, pl. 3, f. 1-2 (Dmf)
Epeira multispina Rainbow, 1897a: 112, pl. 3, f. 3-4 (Dmf)
Epeira etheridgei Rainbow, 1897a: 114, pl. 3, f. 5 (Df)
Epeira festiva Rainbow, 1897a: 115, pl. 4, f. 1 (Df)
Epeira obscura Rainbow, 1897a: 116, pl. 4, f. 2 (Df; preoccupied by Wider, 1834, see Zilla diodia)
Epeira annulipes Rainbow, 1897a: 117, pl. 4, f. 3 (Df; preoccupied by Lucas, 1838, see Aculepeira annulipes)
Epeira distincta Rainbow, 1897a: 118, pl. 4, f. 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014843]
Epeira hoggi Rainbow, 1897a: 119, pl. 5, f. 1 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014933]
Epeira speciosa Rainbow, 1897a: 120, pl. 5, f. 2 (Dj; preoccupied by Pallas, 1773, see Argiope bruennichi)
Araneus mangarevus Pocock, 1897c: 601, pl. 25, f. 11 (f)
Araneus theis Pocock, 1898i: 324 (S of Epeira annulipes Rainbow, E. distincta, E. etheridgei, E. festiva, E. hoggi, E. longispina, E. multispina, E. obscura Rainbow, E. speciosa Rainbow and E. ventricosa)
Neoscona theisi F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 470, pl. 44. f. 9-10 (mf)
Aranea theisii Tullgren, 1910: 164, pl. 4, f. 112 (mf)
Araneus theisi Merian, 1911: 213, pl. 9, f. 7
Aranea theisi feisiana Strand, 1911b: 203 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016765]
Aranea theisi feisiana Strand, 1915d: 221, pl. 14, f. 19 (f)
Araneus theisi Berland, 1932b: 393, f. 564-567 (f)
Aranea theisi Roewer, 1938: 39, f. 27 (f)
Araneus theisi Saito, 1939: 22, f. 3(5) (f)
Aranea annulipedata Roewer, 1942a: 824 (replacement name for Epeira annulipes Rainbow, 1897) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014706]
Aranea speciosissima Roewer, 1942a: 833 (replacement name for Epeira speciosa Rainbow, 1897) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015206]
Araneus theisi Nakatsudi, 1943a: 156, f. 6-8, pl. XXII, f. 3-4 (mf)
Neoscona theisi Yaginuma, 1955a: 17, pl. I, f. 3 (Tmf from Araneus)
Neoscona theisi Yaginuma, 1960: 57, f. 53 (f)
Araneus theisi Chrysanthus, 1960: 39, f. 44, 53-55, 61, 73 (mf)
Neoscona theisi Lee, 1966: 42, f. 12a-b (f)
Neoscona theisi Yaginuma, 1971: 57, f. 53 (f)
Araneus theisi Chrysanthus, 1971: 31, f. 59-61 (f)
Araneus theisi Patel, 1975b: 158, f. 1a-g (mf)
Neoscona theisi Yin, 1978: 5, f. 13A-D (mf)
Neoscona theisi Song, 1980: 105, f. 50a-d (mf)
Neoscona theis Tikader & Bal, 1981: 32, f. 13, 68-72 (mf)
Neoscona theisi Tikader & Biswas, 1981: 26, f. 31-33 (f)
Neoscona theisi Wang, 1981: 95, f. 35A-C (mf)
Neoscona theisi Tikader, 1982a: 269, f. 62, 538-542 (mf)
Neoscona theisi Hu, 1984: 126, f. 126.1-2 (mf)
Neoscona theisi Grasshoff, 1986: 69, f. 90-100 (mf)
Neoscona theisi Yaginuma, 1986a: 104, f. 55.7 (f)
Neoscona theisi Zhang, 1987: 87, f. 71.1-3 (mf)
Neoscona theisi Barrion et al., 1988a: 402, f. 6a-g, 7a-e, 9f-g (mf)
Neoscona theisi Davies, 1988b: 300, f. 21 (mf)
Neoscona theisi Chikuni, 1989b: 72, f. 32 (mf)
Neoscona theisi Feng, 1990: 95, f. 70.1-4 (mf)
Neoscona theisi Chen & Gao, 1990: 68, f. 87a-c (mf)
Neoscona theisi Chen & Zhang, 1991: 118, f. 112.1-3 (mf)
Neoscona theisi Zhao, 1993: 257, f. 120a-b (mf)
Neoscona theisi Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 625, f. 394a-e, 305a-d (mf)
Neoscona theisi Zhao, 1995: 974, f. 459a-b (mf)
Neoscona theisi Yin et al., 1997d: 375, f. 269a-g (mf)
Neoscona sodom Levy, 1998a: 340, f. 117-126 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016756]
Neoscona theisi Tanikawa, 1998b: 137, f. 1-8, 11-17 (mf)
Neoscona theisi Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 301, f. 177V-X, 179L, 181H (mf)
Neoscona theisi Hu, 2001: 471, f. 311.1-5 (mf)
Neoscona theisi Song, Zhu & Chen, 2001: 220, f. 135A-F (mf)
Neoscona theisi Namkung, 2002: 269, f. 19.31a-c (mf)
Neoscona theisi Kim & Kim, 2002: 221, f. 65, 151, 282-284 (mf)
Neoscona theisi Namkung, 2003: 271, f. 19.31a-c (mf)
Neoscona theisi Butt & Siraj, 2006: 215, f. 1A-G (mf)
Neoscona theis Gajbe, 2007: 533, f. 326-330 (mf)
Neoscona theisi Tanikawa, 2007c: 67, f. 150-159, 572-574 (mf)
Neoscona theisi Barrion-Dupo, 2008: 239, f. 1H, 2D (f)
Neoscona theisi Tanikawa, 2009: 443, f. 152-154 (mf)
Neoscona theisi Zhu & Zhang, 2011: 244, f. 176A-E (mf)
Neoscona theisi Yin et al., 2012: 745, f. 371a-g (mf)
Neoscona theisi Kim & Lee, 2012b: 102, f. 75A-C (mf)
Neoscona theisi Dierkens & Charlat, 2013: 75, f. 28-29 (mf)
Neoscona theis Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2013c: 175, f. 62-69 (mf)
Neoscona theisi Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2017: 25, f. 155-160, 196 (f)
Neoscona theisi Basu, Roy & Raychaudhuri, 2017: 66, f. xviii-xxiii, 18-23 (f)
Neoscona theisi Nentwig et al., 2019: 34, f. 4a-f (f, S of Neoscona theisi feisiana)
Neoscona sodom Bosmans et al., 2019b: 9, f. 1a-e (m)
Neoscona theisi Zamani, Marusik & Šestáková, 2020: 36, f. 11A-B, 14A,D, 17A-C (mf, S of Neoscona sodom; f f. 12C-D, 13A-B see Neoscona spasskyi)
Neoscona theisi Jaffry, Butt & Zahra, 2024: 420, f. 6A-G, 7A-D (mf)
Neoscona theisi Hamid & Al-Khazali, 2025: 36, f. 4A-C, 5A-F (f)
Neoscona theisi Zonstein, 2025b: 292, f. 35-36 (m)
Neoscona theisi Baba & Himuro, 2026: 78, f. 8-11 (mf)
Neoscona theisi carbonaria (Simon, 1909) | | Vietnam urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016764
Araneus theisi carbonaria Simon, 1909e: 110 (Df) Original description
Neoscona theisi savesi (Simon, 1880) | | New Caledonia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016766
Araneus theisi savesi Simon, 1880i: 169 (Df) Original description
Neoscona theisi theisiella (Tullgren, 1910) | | West, Central, East Africa, Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, Yemen urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016767
Aranea theisiella Tullgren, 1910: 164, pl. 4, f. 113 (Dmf) Original description
Neoscona theisella Caporiacco, 1947c: 168 (T from Araneus; lapsus)
Neoscona theisi theisiella Grasshoff, 1986: 31, f. 36-43 (mf, reduced to subspecies)
Neoscona theisi theisiella Heinrichs & Barrion, 2004: 211, 605-608 (mf)
Neoscona theisi theisiella Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 18, 9 f. (f)
Neoscona theisi triangulifera (Thorell, 1878) | | Indonesia (Sulawesi, New Guinea), Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016768
Epeira triangulifera Thorell, 1878b: 65 (Df) Original description
Epeira theisii triangulifera Thorell, 1881: 115
Araneus theisi triangulifera Hogg, 1915a: 451 (Dm)
Neoscona tianmenensis Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 | | China, Korea urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016769
Neoscona tianmenensis Yin et al., 1990: 126, f. 313-320 (Dmf) Original description
Neoscona tianmenensis Yin et al., 1997d: 377, f. 270a-k (mf)
Neoscona tianmenensis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 301, f. 177Y-Z, 178A, 179M, 181I (mf)
Neoscona tianmenensis Namkung, 2002: 268, f. 19.30a-d (mf)
Neoscona tianmenensis Namkung, 2003: 270, f. 19.30a-d (mf)
Neoscona tianmenensis Yin et al., 2012: 747, f. 372a-k (mf)
Neoscona tianmenensis Kim & Lee, 2012b: 104, f. 76A-D (mf)
Neoscona triangula (Keyserling, 1864) | | Cape Verde, Mauritius, Africa to India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016770
Epeira lugubris Walckenaer, 1841: 34 (Df; preoccupied by Walckenaer, 1802, see Pardosa lugubris and Grasshoff, 1980: 397)
Epeira nocturna Vinson, 1863: 161, 309, pl. 4, f. 3 (Df; preoccupied by Linnaeus, 1758, see Callilepis nocturna) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066890]
Epeira triangula Keyserling, 1864: 98, pl. 5, f. 12-14 (Dmf) Original description
Epeira kerstenii Gerstaecker, 1873: 492 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060934]
Epeira melanopa Gerstaecker, 1873: 493 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060946]
Epeira obscura Blackwall, 1877: 15 (Df; preoccupied by Wider, 1834, see Zilla diodia) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066891]
Epeira locuples Butler, 1880: 732, pl. 58, f. 2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060943]
Epeira cerviniventris Simon, 1884k: 16 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060908]
Epeira annulata Lenz, 1891: 177, pl. 2, f. 18 (Dm; preoccupied by Thorell, 1859, see Trichonephila senegalensis annulata) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066892]
Araneus haploscapus Pocock, 1898c: 209, pl. 8, f. 5 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060927]
Aranea sub-bituberculata Thorell, 1899: 47 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060986]
Aranea danensis Strand, 1906b: 620 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060916]
Aranea annulata mensamontella Strand, 1907a: 534 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016771]
Araneus fernandensis Simon, 1907d: 292, f. 2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060921]
Aranea annulella Strand, 1907n: 623 (replacement name for Epeira annulata Lenz) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060902]
Aranea annulella mensamontella Strand, 1907n: 623
Aranea kersteni Strand, 1908g: 406
Aranea kibonotensis Tullgren, 1910: 164, pl. 4, f. 111 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060935]
Aranea formicae Tullgren, 1910: 164, pl. 4, f. 114 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060922]
Aranea cruciferoides Tullgren, 1910: 165, pl. 4, f. 116 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060915]
Aranea melanopa Strand, 1913a: 372
Araneus katangae Giltay, 1935b: 7, f. 4-5 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060933]
Neoscona platyparomma Caporiacco, 1939a: 343, f. 13 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060966]
Neoscona platyparomma Caporiacco, 1940c: 822 (Df)
Neoscona danensis Caporiacco, 1941b: 79 (T from Araneus)
Aranea nocturnella Roewer, 1942a: 811 (replacement name for Epeira nocturna Vinson) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060959]
Aranea platyparoma Roewer, 1942a: 812 (lapsus)
Araneus nigrostriatus Caporiacco, 1947c: 174, f. 31 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060957]
Araneus nigrostriatus nigrovittatus Caporiacco, 1947c: 175 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060958]
Neoscona cruciferoides Caporiacco, 1949a: 414 (T from Araneus)
Neoscona dauensis Caporiacco, 1949a: 416, f. 58 (f, lapsus for N. danensis)
Afraranea triangula Grasshoff, 1980: 397, f. 1-4 (mf, removed from S of Neoscona punctigera [rejecting Simon, 1895a: 828, sub Araneus lugubris], S of Araneus annulatus Lenz, A. annulellus, A. cerviniventris, A. kibonotensis, A. lugubris Walckenaer, 1841, A. nigrostriatus, A. n. nigrovittatus, A. nocturnus Vinson, A. nocturnellus, A. obscurus Blackwall and Neoscona cruciferoides)
Neoscona larbada Roberts, 1983: 269, f. 192-198, 209-210 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060940]
Neoscona triangula Grasshoff, 1986: 84, f. 124-135 (mf, S of Araneus fernandensis, A. formicae, A. haploscapus, A. katangae, A. locuples, A. melanopus, A. platyparomma, A. subbituberculatus, Neoscona danensis, N. kersteni [removed from S of N. rufipalpis, rejecting Thorell, 1899: 49, sub Aranea semiannulata] and N. larbada)
Neoscona triangula Saaristo, 2010: 45, f. 4.39-42, 51 (mf)
Neoscona triangula Nentwig et al., 2019: 32 (S of Neoscona triangula mensamontella)
Neoscona triangula Jones & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2022a: 10, f. 1-9, 16-17 (f)
Neoscona triangula Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 19, p. 19: 8 f., p. 20: 3 f. (f)
Neoscona triangula Sherwood et al., 2026b: 611, f. 1A-C (f)
Neoscona triramusa Yin & Zhao, 1994 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016772
Neoscona triramusa Yin & Zhao, 1994: 5, f. 22-32 (Dmf) Original description
Neoscona triramusa Yin et al., 1997d: 378, f. 271a-k (mf)
Neoscona triramusa Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 301, f. 178B-D, 179N-O, 181J (mf)
Neoscona ujavalai Reddy & Patel, 1992 | | India urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016773
Neoscona ujavalai Reddy & Patel, 1992d: 129, f. 1-5 (Df) Original description
Neoscona usbonga Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 | | India, Philippines urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016774
Neoscona usbonga Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 620, f. 391a-j, 392a-g (Dmf) Original description
Neoscona usbonga Asalatha & Prasadan, 2020: 98, pl. I1-e (m)
Neoscona utahana (Chamberlin, 1919) | | USA, Mexico urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016775
Aranea (Neoscona) utahana Chamberlin, 1919a: 254, pl. 19, f. 3 (Df) Original description
Neoscona eximia Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936b: 19, f. 32 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060920]
Aranea eximia Roewer, 1942a: 860
Neoscona jonesi Archer, 1951a: 22, f. 35, 50, 58 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060932]
Neoscona utahana Berman & Levi, 1971: 485, f. 68-77, 135 (mf, T from Araneus, S of Araneus eximius and Neoscona jonesi)
Neoscona utahana Barrion et al., 1988a: 405, f. 8a-e, 9h (m; presumably misidentified)
Neoscona utahana Breene et al., 1993: 106, f. 163A-C (mf)
Neoscona vigilans (Blackwall, 1865) | | Sub-Saharan Africa, Oman, Iran, Pakistan to Japan and New Guinea urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016776
Epeira hispida Doleschall, 1859: 33, pl. 2, f. 5 (Df; preoccupied by C. L. Koch, 1844, see Eriophora fuliginea)
Epeira vigilans Blackwall, 1865b: 342 (Df) Original description
Epeira decens Thorell, 1877b: 379 (Df; preoccupied by Blackwall, 1866, see Kilima decens)
Epeira rumpfii Thorell, 1878b: 296 (D; preoccupied by Scopoli, 1763 sub Aranea, see Marpissa muscosa)
Epeira rufo-femorata Simon, 1884n: 348, f. 6 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060971]
Epeira hispida lunifera Thorell, 1887: 180 (D)
Epeira hispida stragulata Thorell, 1887: 180 (D)
Araneus marshalli Pocock, 1898c: 207, pl. 8, f. 3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060945]
Araneus spenceri Pocock, 1898c: 209, pl. 8, f. 4 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060985]
Araneus decens Simon, 1899a: 90
Araneus rumpfi Pocock, 1900a: 228 (Df)
Aranea temeraria Tullgren, 1910: 165, pl. 4, f. 115 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060989]
Araneus rumpfi Sherriffs, 1934: 88, f. 1, pl. 8, f. 3 (Dm, f)
Araneus alternidens Schenkel, 1936b: 107, f. 38 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060900]
Neoscona irritans Caporiacco, 1947c: 170, f. 28 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060931]
Neoscona rumpfi Yaginuma, 1955a: 19, pl. I, f. 7 (f, T from Araneus)
Afraranea rufofemorata Yaginuma & Archer, 1959: 37 (T from Araneus)
Araneus rufofemoratus Chrysanthus, 1960: 33, f. 35-38, 43, 70 (mf)
Araneus rufofemoratus Lee, 1966: 39, f. 10a-d (f)
Araneus alternidens Yin, 1978: 2, f. 4A-D (f)
Aranea alternidens Song, 1980: 95, f. 41a-d (f)
Neoscona rumpfi Tikader & Bal, 1981: 18, f. 31-35 (mf)
Neoscona rumpfi Tikader & Biswas, 1981: 25, f. 28-30 (f)
Neoscona rumpfi Tikader, 1982a: 253, f. 501-505 (mf)
Araneus alternidens Hu, 1984: 88, f. 79 (f)
Neoscona vigilans Grasshoff, 1986: 95, f. 141-145 (mf, T from Araneus, S of Afraranea rufofemorata, Araneus alternidens, A. marshalli, A. spenceri, A. temerarius and Neoscona irritans)
Araneus alternidens Feng, 1990: 52, f. 27.1-4 (f)
Araneus alternidens Chen & Gao, 1990: 43, f. 44a-b (f)
Neoscona polyspinipes Yin et al., 1990: 104, f. 255-257, 261 (m; misidentified per Mi, Wang & Li, 2024: 308)
Neoscona rumpfi Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 630, f. 398a-e, 399a-f (f)
Neoscona polyspinipes Song, Chen & Zhu, 1997: 1716, f. 18a-b (m; misidentified per Mi, Wang & Li, 2024: 308)
Neoscona vigilans Yin et al., 1997d: 361, f. 257a-j (mf)
Neoscona polyspinipes Yin et al., 1997d: 352, f. 248b, e, i-k (m; misidentified per Mi, Wang & Li, 2024: 308)
Neoscona vigilans Tanikawa, 1998b: 163, f. 91-92, 100-106 (mf)
Neoscona vigilans Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 301, f. 178E-G, 180A-B, 181K (mf)
Neoscona polyspinipes Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 300, f. 179D-E (m; misidentified per Mi, Wang & Li, 2024: 308)
Neoscona vigilans Hu, 2001: 465, f. 305.1-2 (f)
Neoscona rumpfi Gajbe, 2007: 529, f. 317-321 (mf)
Neoscona vigilans Tanikawa, 2007c: 72, f. 197-198, 602-605 (mf)
Neoscona rumpfi Barrion-Dupo, 2008: 238, f. 1F-G, 2C (f)
Neoscona vigilans Barrion-Dupo, 2008: 239, f. 1I, 2E (f)
Neoscona vigilans Tanikawa, 2009: 445, f. 181-184 (mf)
Neoscona vigilans Yin et al., 2012: 749, f. 373a-j (mf)
Neoscona polyspinipes Yin et al., 2012: 735, f. 365b, e, i-k (m; misidentified per Mi, Wang & Li, 2024: 308)
Neoscona xiquanensis Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong in Barrion et al., 2013: 5, f. 3A-I (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048415]
Neoscona rumpfi Sen et al., 2015: 126, f. 811-816, pl. 24 (f)
Neoscona vigilans Basu, Roy & Raychaudhuri, 2017: 67, f. xxiv-xxix, 24-29 (f)
Neoscona vigilans Caleb, 2020b: 15718, f. 3G-I, 25C (f)
Neoscona vigilans Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 21, 7 f. (f)
Neoscona vigilans Jaffry, Butt & Zahra, 2024: 423, f. 8A-H, 9A-D (mf)
Neoscona vigilans Mi, Wang & Li, 2024: 308 (S of Neoscona xiquanensis, removed from S of N. polyspinipes, rejecting Lin et al., 2023a: 503)
Neoscona vigilans Zamani et al., 2025b: 3, f. 3A-E, 4A-B (mf)
Neoscona wuding Mi, Wang & Li, 2024 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063451
Neoscona wuding Mi, Wang & Li, 2024: 309, f. 25A-J, 26A-E, 27A-E (Dmf) Original description
Neoscona xishanensis Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 | | India, China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016777
Neoscona xishanensis Yin et al., 1990: 129, f. 321-324 (Df) Original description
Neoscona xishanensis Yin et al., 1997d: 279, f. 272a-h (f)
Neoscona xishanensis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 301, f. 178H-J, 181L (f)
Neoscona xishanensis Sarkar, Siliwal & Uniyal, 2023d: 20, f. 1A-H, 2A-F, 3A-C (Dm, f)
Neoscona yadongensis Yin, Wang, Xie & Peng, 1990 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016778
Neoscona yadongensis Yin et al., 1990: 133, f. 332-338 (Dmf) Original description
Neoscona yadongensis Yin et al., 1997d: 381, f. 273a-i (mf)
Neoscona yadongensis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 302, f. 178K-M, 180C, 181M (mf)
Neoscona yadongensis Hu, 2001: 472, f. 312.1-6 (mf)
Neoscona yptinika Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 | | India, Philippines urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016779
Neoscona yptinika Barrion & Litsinger, 1995: 620, f. 390a-l (Dm) Original description
Neoscona yptinika Sen et al., 2011: 370, f. 8-14, 16 (m)
Neoscona yptinika Sen et al., 2015: 124, f. 782-786, pl. 23 (m)
Neoscona yptinika Basu, Roy & Raychaudhuri, 2017: 65, f. i-v, 1-5 (m)
Neoscona zhui X. X. Zhang & F. Zhang, 2011 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044321
Neoscona zhui Zhang & Zhang, 2011b: 518, f. 1-9 (Dmf) Original description

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