Araneus saevus (L. Koch, 1872)

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Described:

Distribution: North America, Europe, Russia (Far East)


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) Epeira zimmermanni Thorell, 1875, (5612, 5612a) -
Taxonomic References
Epeira saeva L. Koch, 1872b: 123 (Dm) Original description
Araneus saevus Kurka, 1981: 55, f. 1-2 (f)
Epeira sinistra Thorell, 1873: 545 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063090]
Araneus saevus Izmailova, 1989: 60, f. 43 (m)
Epeira zimmermanni Thorell, 1875a: 81 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063092]
Araneus saevus Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 74, f. 166 (mf)
Epeira zimmermanni Thorell, 1875c: 6 (Df)
Araneus saevus Tanikawa, 2001b: 81, f. 67-68 (m)
Epeira solitaria Emerton, 1884: 299, pl. 33, f. 11, pl. 35, f. 3 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063091]
Araneus saevus Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 44, f. 284-286 (mf)
Epeira nigra Emerton, 1894: 402, pl. 1, f. 1 (Dmf)
Araneus saevus Dondale et al., 2003: 224, f. 475-481 (mf)
Epeira zimmermanni Bösenberg, 1901: 26, pl. 1, f. 7 (f)
Araneus saevus Aakra, 2005: 31, f. 9 (f)
Araneus saevus Almquist, 2006: 144, f. 155a-g (mf)
Epeira saevus Kulczyński, 1901b: 328, pl. 12, f. 5 (m)
Araneus saevus Sestáková, Krumpál & Krumpálová, 2009: 78, f. 5j, 9, 11, 31a-f, 32a-f (mf)
Araneus saevus Lessert, 1905b: 641, f. 10 (m)
Araneus saevus Kroc, Kůrka & Šestáková, 2015: 12, f. 1-5 (m)
Epeira solitaria Petrunkevitch, 1910: 211 (Dm)
Araneus saevus Dolejš & Rückl, 2017: 86, f. 1-2 (f)
Araneus saevus Lessert, 1910b: 308, f. 167 (m)
Araneus solitarius Petrunkevitch, 1911: 317 (S of Araneus solitarius, rejected by Levi, 1971a: 150, see Araneus saevus)
Araneus zimmermanni Charitonov, 1926b: 57, f. 1 (f)
Aranea saevus Wiehle, 1931: 60, f. 86 (m)
Aranea zimmermanni Wiehle, 1931: 60
Aranea angulata Comstock, 1940: 483, f. 483bis (f)
Aranea angulata silvatica Comstock, 1940: 132, f. 133a-b (f)
Aranea solitaria Archer, 1941b: 19, pl. III, f. 2 (f)
Aranea saeva Drensky, 1943: 241, f. 17 (f)
Aranea solitaria Kaston, 1948: 250, f. 785-786, 796-797 (mf)
Araneus zimmermanni Johansson, 1950: 93, f. 1-2 (f)
Aranea silvatica Archer, 1951a: 26 (removed from S, rejected)
Aranea nigra Archer, 1951a: 29, f. 77 (m, removed from S, rejected)
Aranea solitaria Archer, 1951a: 29, f. 72 (m)
Araneus saevus Tullgren, 1952: 164, f. 10a-b, 12a-b (mf, S of Araneus sinister and A. zimmermanni)
Araneus saevus Wiehle, 1963c: 276, f. 84-92 (mf)
Araneus saevus Levi, 1970: 109, f. 10-13 (m)
Araneus saevus Miller, 1971: 208, pl. XXXVIII, f. 22-23 (f)
Araneus saevus Levi, 1971a: 148, f. 7-8, 42-51, 55-60 (mf, S of Araneus solitarius)
Araneus zimmermanni Palmgren, 1974a: 19, f. 7e-i (f, Dm)
References

Aakra, K. (2005). Hjulspinnere - Araneidae. Insekt-Nytt 30(1/2): 23-38. -- Show included taxa

Almquist, S. (2006). Swedish Araneae, part 1 – families Atypidae to Hahniidae (Linyphiidae excluded). Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 62(2005): 1-284. [[publ. in 2006 per Jonsson, in litt.]] -- Show included taxa

Archer, A. F. (1941b). Supplement to the Argiopidae of Alabama. Museum Paper, Geological Survey of Alabama 18: 1-47. -- Show included taxa

Archer, A. F. (1951a). Studies in the orbweaving spiders (Argiopidae). 1. American Museum Novitates 1487: 1-52. -- Show included taxa

Bösenberg, W. (1901). Die Spinnen Deutschlands. I. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 14(1): 1-96, Pl. 1-8. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.6508 -- Show included taxa

Charitonov, D. E. (1926b). Materialy k faune paukov Verkhotourskogo Urala. Izvestia Biologitschieskogo nauchno-issliedovatel’skogo Instituta pri Permskom Universitete 5: 49-60. -- Show included taxa

Comstock, J. H. (1940). The spider book, revised and edited by W. J. Gertsch. Cornell Univ. Press Ithaca, 727 pp. -- Show included taxa

Dolejš, P. & Rückl, K. (2017). Two rare spider species (Araneae: Araneidae, Theridiidae) found in the Šumava Mts. Journal of the National Museum (Prague), Natural History Series 186: 85-92. doi: 10.2478/jzh-2018-0004 -- Show included taxa

Dondale, C. D., Redner, J. H., Paquin, P. & Levi, H. W. (2003). The insects and arachnids of Canada. Part 23. The orb-weaving spiders of Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Uloboridae, Tetragnathidae, Araneidae, Theridiosomatidae). NRC Research Press Ottawa, 371 pp. -- Show included taxa

Drensky, P. (1943). Die Spinnenfauna Bulgariens. VI. Unterordnung Arachnomorphae, II Gruppe Trionichia, Familie Euetrioidae. Bulletin des Institutions Royales d'Histoire Naturelle à Sophia 16: 219-254. -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1884). New England spiders of the family Epeiridae. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6: 295-342. -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1894). Canadian spiders. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 9: 400-429, pl. 1-4. -- Show included taxa

Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. -- Show included taxa

Izmailova, M. V. (1989). [Fauna of Spiders of South Part of Eastern Siberia]. Irkutsk State University Publishing, 184 pp. -- Show included taxa

Johansson, K. E. (1950). Aranea zimmernanni [sic] (Thor.), eine für Schweden neue Spinne. Entomologisk Tidskrift 71: 93-96. -- Show included taxa

Kaston, B. J. (1948). Spiders of Connecticut. Bulletin of the Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey 70: 1-874. -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1872b). Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Arachnidenfauna Tirols. Zweite Abhandlung. Zeitschrift des Ferdinandeums für Tirol und Vorarlberg (3) 17: 239-328. -- Show included taxa

Kroc, V., Kůrka, A. & Šestáková, A. (2015). Nález Araneus saevus. Každá vzácná věc je předem podezřelá – je to A. saevus? Pátranie po znakoch. Pavouk 39: 12-17. -- Show included taxa

Kulczyński, W. (1901b). Arachnoidea. In: Horvath, G. (ed.) Zoologische Ergebnisse der dritten asiatischen Forschungsreise des Grafen Eugen Zichy. Budapest 2, 311-369. -- Show included taxa

Kůrka, A. (1981). The discovery of Araneus saevus (L. Koch, 1872) in Bohemia (Araneida: Araneidae). Časopis Národního Muzea 150: 55-57. -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1905b). Arachniden Graubündens. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 13: 621-661. -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1910b). Catalogue des invertebres de la Suisse. Fasc. 3, Araignées. Musée d'histoire naturelle de Genève, 635 pp. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1970). Problems in the reproductive physiology of the spider palpus. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (2) 41(Suppl. 1): 108-111. -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1971a). The diadematus group of the orb-weaver genus Araneus north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 141(4): 131-179. -- Show included taxa

Miller, F. (1971). Pavouci-Araneida. Klíč zvířeny ČSSR 4: 51-306. -- Show included taxa

Palmgren, P. (1974a). Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands und Ostfennoskandiens. IV. Argiopidae, Tetragnathidae und Mimetidae. Fauna Fennica 24: 1-70. -- Show included taxa

Paquin, P. & Dupérré, N. (2003). Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Supplement 11: 1-251. -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1910). Some new or little known American Spiders. Annals of the New York Academy of Science 19: 205-224, pl. 21-22. -- Show included taxa

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

Šestáková, A., Krumpál, M. & Krumpálová, Z. (2009). Araneidae (Araneae) Strednej Európy: I. Rod Araneus. Prírodovedecká Fakulta Univerzity Komenskéhó Bratislava, 151 pp. -- Show included taxa

Tanikawa, A. (2001b). Twelve new species and one newly recorded species of the spider genus Araneus (Araneae: Araneidae) from Japan. Acta Arachnologica 50(1): 63-86. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.50.63 -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1873). Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. Part IV. C. J. Lundström, Uppsala, pp. 375-645. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.69282 -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1875a). Diagnoses Aranearum Europaearum aliquot novarum. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 18: 81-108. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1875c). Descriptions of several European and North African spiders. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 13(5): 1-204. -- Show included taxa

Tullgren, A. (1952). Zur Kenntnis schwedischer Spinnen. I. Entomologisk Tidskrift 73: 151-177. -- Show included taxa

Wiehle, H. (1931). Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea. 27. Familie. Araneidae. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 23: 47-136. -- Show included taxa

Wiehle, H. (1963c). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der deutschen Spinnenfauna III. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 90: 227-298. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2018-01-08 New taxonomic reference entry Dolejš & Rückl, 2017
2017-11-21 New taxonomic reference entry Kroc, Kůrka & Šestáková, 2015

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