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Genus: Araniella Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Araniella tbilisiensis (Mcheidze, 1997)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:015333

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Described:

Distribution: Georgia, Azerbaĳan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan or Uzbekistan, India

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Lectotype: Zoological Department, Perm State University (PSU), Perm, Russia f - (Tiunov & Ustinova, 2025b)
Holotype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland m (ARTO-0027185) of Araniella villanii - (Zamani, Marusik & Šestáková, 2020)
Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 1f (ARTO-0027186) of Araniella tbilisiensis - (Zamani, Marusik & Šestáková, 2020)
Paratype: Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russia 6m 10f of Araniella villanii - (Zamani, Marusik & Šestáková, 2020)
Paratype: Manchester Museum of the University of Manchester (MMUE/MMUM), Manchester, United Kingdom 7m 3f (G7639.2-3) of Araniella villanii - (Zamani, Marusik & Šestáková, 2020)

Taxonomic References

Araneus tbilisiensis Mcheidze, 1997: 280, f. 642-644 (Dmf) Original description

Araniella tbilisiensis Mikhailov, 1998b: 18 (T from Araneus)

Araniella villanii Zamani, Marusik & Šestáková, 2020: 18, f. 1B, D, 3A-B, 4C-D, 5A-B, 7A, 8A, 9A, 10A (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051609] [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051609]

Araniella villanii Zamani et al., 2025c: 132, f. 1 (m)

Araniella tbilisiensis Tiunov & Ustinova, 2025b: 196, f. 1-6 (mf, removed from S of Araniella opisthographa, S of A. villanii)

References

Mcheidze, T. S. (1997). [Spiders of Georgia: Systematics, Ecology, Zoogeographic Review]. Tbilisi University, 390 pp. (in Georgian). [[English version published by Otto (2014) available here]] -- Show included taxa

Mikhailov, K. G. (1998b). Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the territories of the former Soviet Union. Addendum 1. KMK Scientific Press Moscow, 48 pp. -- Show included taxa

Tiunov, A. V. & Ustinova, A. L. (2025b). A revalidation and redescription of the orb-web spider Araniella tbilisiensis (Mcheidze 1997) (Araneae: Araneidae). Caucasiana 4: 195-201. doi: 10.3897/caucasiana.4.e173656 -- Show included taxa

Zamani, A., Marusik, Y. M. & Šestáková, A. (2020). On Araniella and Neoscona (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Caucasus, Middle East and Central Asia. ZooKeys 906: 13-40. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.906.47978 -- Show included taxa

Zamani, A., Nuruyeva, T., Snegovaya, N., Freyhof, J., Mustafayev, N. & Marusik, Y. M. (2025c). New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20(1): 132-137. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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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
2020-01-23	Species updated	Zamani, Marusik & Šestáková, 2020	Old value	Status: Synonym