Argiope versicolor (Doleschall, 1859)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015419

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Described:

Distribution: Pakistan, India, China, Laos, Malaysia (peninsula, Borneo), Singapore, Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo, Java)

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Type Repository Provide information
  • Syntype: Naturalis, National Museum of Natural History (RMNH), Leiden, Netherlands 2f - (Levi, 1983)
  • Holotype: f (lost) of Argiope succincta - (Levi, 1983)
Taxonomic References
Epeira versicolor Doleschall, 1859: 31, pl. 9, f. 10 (Df) Original description
Argiope succincta L. Koch, 1871: 35 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066885]
Argiope versicolor Thorell, 1890a: 95 (Dm, S of Argiope succincta
Argiope versicolor Workman, 1896: 28, pl. 28 (f)
Argiope succincta Pocock, 1897c: 598, pl. 25, f. 7 (f)
Argiope versicolor Levi, 1983: 305, f. 3-4, 251-262 (mf)
Argiope versicolor Yin et al., 1989: 65, f. 6A-F (mf)
Argiope versicolor Chen & Gao, 1990: 53, f. 61a-e (mf)
Argiope versicolor Yin et al., 1997d: 88, f. 19a-i (mf)
Argiope versicolor Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 262, f. 152I-K, 153E, 154B (mf)
Argiope versicolor Jäger & Praxaysombath, 2009: 38, f. 69-73 (mf)
Argiope versicolor Tyagi et al., 2019: Supplement, f. S2.2, S3.26 (f)
Argiope versicolor Sunil Jose & Amrithanidhi, 2026: 128, f. 2-5 (f)
References

Chen, X. E. & Gao, J. C. (1990). The Sichuan farmland spiders in China. Sichuan Science and Technology Publishing House Chengdu, 226 pp. -- Show included taxa

Doleschall, L. (1859). Tweede Bijdrage tot de kennis der Arachniden van den Indischen Archipel. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Indo-Neerlandicae 5(5): 1-60, pl. 1-17. -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P. & Praxaysombath, B. (2009). Spiders from Laos: new species and new records (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Arachnologica 58(1): 27-51. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.58.27 -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1871). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 1-2]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 1-104, pl. 1-8. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.121660 -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1983). The orb-weaver genera Argiope, Gea, and Neogea from the western Pacific region (Araneae: Araneidae, Argiopinae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 150(5): 247-338. -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1897c). Spinnen (Araneae). In: Kükenthal, W. (ed.) Ergebnisse einer zoologischen Forschungsreise in den Molukken und Borneo. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 23: 591-629. -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa

Sunil Jose, K. & Amrithanidhi, S. (2026). New distributional record of Argiope versicolor (Doleschall, 1859) (Araneae, Araneidae) from Kerala, India. Entomon 51(1): 127-130. doi: 10.33307/entomon.v51i1.1626 -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1890a). Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. IV, 1. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 28: 5-421. -- Show included taxa

Tyagi, K., Kumar, V., Kundu, S., Pakrashi, A., Prasad, P., Caleb, J. T. D. & Chandra, K. (2019). Identification of Indian spiders through DNA barcoding: cryptic species and species complex. Scientific Reports 9(14033): 1-13 & Supplement. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-50510-8 -- Show included taxa

Workman, T. (1896). Malaysian spiders. Published by the author, Belfast, UK, pp. 25-104. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.101972 -- Show included taxa

Yin, C. M., Wang, J. F., Zhang, Y. J., Peng, X. J. & Chen, X. O. (1989). The study of the subfamily [sic] Argiope from China (Araneae, Araneidae). Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Normalis Hunanensis 12: 60-69. -- Show included taxa

Yin, C. M., Wang, J. F., Zhu, M. S., Xie, L. P., Peng, X. J. & Bao, Y. H. (1997d). Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae. Science Press, Beijing, 460 pp. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2026-04-13 Type repository inserted Levi, 1983
2026-04-13 New taxonomic reference entry Sunil Jose & Amrithanidhi, 2026
2021-07-12 Species distribution update Old value
2019-10-05 New taxonomic reference entry Tyagi et al., 2019

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