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Genus: Araneus Clerck, 1757 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Araneus ocellatulus (Roewer, 1942)

SPECIES | NOMEN DUBIUM

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015076

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Described: j

Distribution: Guatemala

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Taxonomic References

Epeira ocellata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889d: 29, pl. 6, f. 17 (Dj; preoccupied by Linnaeus, 1758, see Heteropoda ocellata)

Aranea ocellata F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904: 518

Araneus ocellatus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 307

Aranea ocellatula Roewer, 1942a: 849 (replacement name) Original description

Araneus ocellatulus Sherwood, 2024b: 192 (types lost, immature, unidentifiable, nomen dubium)

References

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1889d). Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 1-56, pl. 1-8. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1904). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 465-560, pl. 44-51. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1942a). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940. 1. Band (Mesothelae, Orthognatha, Labidognatha: Dysderaeformia, Scytodiformia, Pholciformia, Zodariiformia, Hersiliaeformia, Argyopiformia). Natura, Buchhandlung für Naturkunde und exakte Wissenschaften Paul Budy Bremen, 1040 pp. -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D. (2024b). Studies on spider nomenclature – I: miscellaneous notes on unrecognisable species, new synonyms, and untenable subspecies (Araneae: Araneomorphae). The Indochina Entomologist 1(23): 189-235. doi: 10.70590/ice.2024.01.23 -- Show included taxa

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-01-02	Taxon is nomen dubium	Sherwood, 2024b		Araneus ocellatulus (Roewer, 1942) declared a nomen dubium
2025-01-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood, 2024b