Neoscona arabesca (Walckenaer, 1842)
arabesque orbweaver
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FAMILY: ARANEIDAE Simon, 1895 Genus: Neoscona Simon, 1864 Species: Neoscona arabesca (Walckenaer, 1842)  |
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Common Names
Family Common Name:
orbweavers
Genus Common Name:
spotted orbweavers
Species Common Name:
arabesque orbweaver
Distribution
Global Distribution: North, Central America, West Indies
Nearctic States & Provinces: (from the Nearctic Spider Database) 
AB BC MB NB NS ON PE QC SK CO CT FL GA KS LA MO MT NH NY NC ND OH OK SC TX VA WI WY
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected: (from the Nearctic Spider Database)
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Specimen list |
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Natural History, Phenology & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:† orb weavers
†Feeding guild when noted defined by Uetz, G. W., J. Halaj, and A. B. Cady. 1999. Guild structure of spiders in major crops. Journal of Arachnology 27:270-280. PDF
Recorded Habitats: (not yet recorded or unknown)
Life & Natural History: (not yet recorded or unknown)
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Details About Males
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Synonyms and Chresonyms‡
Taxonomic References‡
Banks, N. 1909. Arachnida from Costa Rica. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 61: 194-234.
Banks, N. 1898. Arachnida from Baja California and other parts of Mexico. Proc. Californ. Acad. Sci. (3) 1: 205-308.
Barrion, A. A., C. V. Casal, L. D. Taylo & D. M. Amalin. 1988. Two orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Araneidae) in the Philippines causing araneidism. Philipp. J. Sci. 116: 245-254.
Berman, J. D. & H. W. Levi. 1971. The orb weaver genus Neoscona in North America (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 141: 465-500.
Breene, R. G., D. A. Dean, M. Nyffeler & G. B. Edwards. 1993. Biology, Predation Ecology, and Significance of Spiders in Texas Cotton Ecosystems with a Key to Species. Texas Agriculture Experiment Station, College Station, 115 pp.
Cambridge, F. O. P.-. 1904. Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2: 465-560.
Coddington, J. A. 1990. Ontogeny and homology in the male palpus of orb-weaving spiders and their relatives, with comments on phylogeny (Araneoclada: Araneoidea, Deinopoidea). Smithson. Contrib. Zool. 496: 1-52.
Comstock, J. H. 1940. The spider book, revised and edited by W. J. Gertsch. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, xi + 727 pp.
Dondale, C. D., J. H. Redner, P. Paquin & H. W. Levi. 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.
Emerton, J. H. 1902. The common spiders of the United States. Boston, pp. 1-225.
Emerton, J. H. 1884. New England spiders of the family Epeiridae. Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci. 6: 295-342.
Gertsch, W. J. & S. Mulaik. 1936. New spiders from Texas. Amer. Mus. Novit. 863: 1-22.
Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.
Keyserling, E. 1892. Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Nürnberg, 4: 1-208.
Keyserling, E. 1864. Beschreibungen neuer und wenig bekannter Arten aus der Familie Orbitelae Latr. oder Epeiridae Sund. Sitz.-ber. nat. Ges. Isis Dresden 1863: 63-98, 119-154.
Levi, H. W. 2002. Keys to the genera of araneid orbweavers (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Americas. J. Arachnol. 30: 527-562. 
Levi, H. W. 1993. American Neoscona and corrections to previous revisions of Neotropical orb-weavers (Araneae: Araneidae). Psyche, Camb. 99: 221-239.
Levi, H. W. 1991. The Neotropical and Mexican species of the orb-weaver genera Araneus, Dubiepeira, and Aculepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 152: 167-315.
McCook, H. C. 1894. American spiders and their spinningwork. Philadelphia, 3: 1-285.
Muma, M. H. 1943. Common spiders of Maryland. Natural History Society of Maryland, Baltimore, 179 pp.
Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1911. A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greeland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 29: 1-791. 
Walckenaer, C. A. 1842. Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Paris, 2: 1-549.
‡Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog
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