Taxon details

Family: Araneidae / Genus: Pararaneus

Pararaneus spectator (Karsch, 1885)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-09-15
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:016886]
  • Distribution: Africa, Middle East
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material of Aranea confusionis Strand, 1906 destroyed 1944 (Renner, 1988b)
  • Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material of Aranea manicola Strand, 1906 destroyed 1944 (Renner, 1988b)
  • Holotype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; f (040) of Aranea lunulifera (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
  • Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); 2f 1j (A0003429) of Epeira similis Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895
  • Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); f (A0003428)
Taxonomic references
Epeira spectator Karsch, 1885: 134, f. 3-4 (Df).
Epeira suedicola Simon, 1890a: 103 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062180].
Epeira similis Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895: 44, pl. 2, f. 26 (Df; preoccupied by Blackwall, 1844, see Zygiella x-notata) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062179].
Epeira striata similis Pavesi, 1897b: 164.
Epeira striata intermedia Pavesi, 1897b: 164 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062178].
Araneus streptoceros Pocock, 1898e: 436, pl. 13, f. 2 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062176].
Aranea confusionis Strand, 1906b: 619 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062168].
Aranea manicola Strand, 1906b: 623 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062173].
Araneus suedicola pardalis Simon, 1907e: 6 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062181].
Aranea streptocera Strand, 1908g: 379.
Aranea randiae Strand, 1917c: 71 (replacement name for Epeira similis Bösenberg & Lenz) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062184].
Aranea lunulifera Reimoser, 1937b: 20, f. 2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062172].
Araneus striatus intermedius Caporiacco, 1940c: 826.
Pararaneus striatellus intermedius Roewer, 1942a: 870.
Pararaneus streptoceros Caporiacco, 1949a: 411, f. 53 (f, T from Araneus).
Araneus asbenicus Denis, 1955b: 134, f. 40 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062167].
Pararaneus spectator Grasshoff, 1968: 91, f. 55-57, 60c, 64a-d, 74-82 (mf, T from Araneus, S of Araneus asbenicus, A. confusionis, A. manicola, A. randiae, A. suedicola, A. suedicola pardalis, Pararaneus striatellus intermedius and P. striatellus similis).
Pararaneus spectator Levy, 1998a: 342, f. 127-134 (mf, S of Araneus lunulifer).
Pararaneus spectator Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 34, p. 30: 1 f., p. 34: 7 f. (f habitus).
References

Bösenberg, W. & Lenz, H. (1895). Ostafrikanische Spinnen gesammelt von Herrn Dr. F. Stuhlmann in den Jahren 1888 und 1889. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten 12(2): 27-51. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1940c). Aracnidi raccolte nella Reg. dei Laghi Etiopici della Fossa Galla. Atti della Reale Accademia d'Italia 11: 767-873. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1949a). Aracnidi della colonia del Kenya raccolti da Toschi e Meneghetti negli anni 1944-1946. Commentationes Pontificia Academia Scientiarum 13: 309-492. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1955b). Contribution à l'étude de l'Aïr (Mission L. Chopard et A. Villiers). Araignées. Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire 17(A): 99-146. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H., Lotz, L. N. & Webb, P. (2022f). The Araneidae of South Africa. Version 2: part 3 (Ne-U). South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 66 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6326991 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Grasshoff, M. (1968). Morphologische Kriterien als Ausdruck von Artgrenzen bei Radnetzspinnen der Subfamilie Araneinae (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 516: 1-100. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1885). Verzeichniss der von Dr. G. A. Fischer auf der im Auftrage der geographischen Gesellschaft in Hamburg unternommen Reise in das Massai-Land gesammelten Myriopoden und Arachnoiden. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten 2: 131-139. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (1998a). Twelve genera of orb-weaver spiders (Araneae, Araneidae) from Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 43: 311-365. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pavesi, P. (1897b). Studi sugli aracnidi africani IX. Aracnidi Somali e Galla raccolti da Don Eugenio dei Principi Rispoli. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 38: 151-188. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1898e). The Arachnida from the regions of Lakes Nyassa and Tanganyika contained in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 2(12): 429-448, pl. 13. doi:10.1080/00222939808678518 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Reimoser, E. (1937b). Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna von Erythraea. Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 16: 16-24. download pdf -- 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. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1890a). Etudes arachnologiques. 22e Mémoire. XXXIV. Etude sur les arachnides de l'Yemen. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 10: 77-124. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1907e). Arachnides recueillis en Egypte et le long du Nil Blanc par la Mission zoologique suedoise, 1901. In: Results of the Swedish Zoological Expedition to Egypt and the White Nile 1901 under the Direction of L. A. Jägerskiöld. Part III. 21 (37). Uppsala, 10 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.21727 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1906b). Diagnosen nordafrikanischer, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelter Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 30: 604-637, 655-690. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1908g). Nordafrikanische, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelte Argiopiden. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 16: 329-440. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1917c). Arachnologica varia XIV-XVIII. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 82(A2): 70-76. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Date Type Reference Detail
2022-06-08 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f n/a