Nearctic States & Provinces: AB BC MB NS ON QC SK CA CO CT MT NE NH NY NC OH OK PA SC TX WI
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/15415
Argiope trifasciata (Forsskål, 1775)
banded garden spider
FAMILY: ARANEIDAE Simon, 1895
Genus: Argiope Audouin, 1826
Species: Argiope trifasciata (Forsskål, 1775)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
orbweavers
Genus Common Name:
garden orbweavers
Species Common Name:
banded garden spider
Distribution
Global Distribution: Cosmopolitan (except Europe)
Nearctic States & Provinces:
AB BC MB NS ON QC SK CA CO CT MT NE NH NY NC OH OK PA SC TX WI
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
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.
Recorded Habitats:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Life & Natural History:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Seasonality of Specimen Records:
Image(s) of Habitus:
Credit: Wigney, Bev
Details About Males
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of External Male Genitalia:
(image not yet available)
Details About Females
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of Epigynum:
(image not yet available)
Synonyms and Chresonyms†
| Argiope trifasciata Forskal 1775 |
| Argiope trifasciata Forskål 1775 |
| Argiope trifasciata Forsskål 1775 |
| Aranea trifasciata Forskål 1776 |
| Aranea trifasciata Forsskål 1776 |
| Aranea fastuosa Olivier 1789 |
| Argiope aurelia Audouin 1826 |
| Epeira webbii Lucas 1838 |
| Epeira argyraspides Walckenaer 1842 |
| Epeira aurelia Walckenaer 1842 |
| Epeira fastuosa Walckenaer 1842 |
| Epeira latreillana Walckenaer 1842 |
| Epeira mauricia Walckenaer 1842 |
| Epeira nephoda Walckenaer 1842 |
| Epeira fasciata Hentz 1847 |
| Epeira flavipes Nicolet 1849 |
| Argiope avara Thorell 1859 |
| Epeira latreilla Vinson 1863 |
| Epeira mauritia Vinson 1863 |
| Argiope plana L. Koch 1867 |
| Nephila aurelia Blackwall 1867 |
| Argiope plana L. Koch 1871 |
| Argiope trifasciata Thorell 1873 |
| Argiope sticticalis O. P.-Cambridge 1876 |
| Argyopes indecissa Holmberg 1876 |
| Argiope hentzi Thorell 1878 |
| Argiope fasciata McCook 1882 |
| Argiope mauricia Hasselt 1882 |
| Argiope transversa Emerton 1884 |
| Argiope trifasciata Keyserling 1886 |
| Argiope argyraspis McCook 1894 |
| Argiope avara McCook 1894 |
| Argiope avara Simon 1900 |
| Argiope transversa Emerton 1902 |
| Metargiope trifasciata F. O. P.-Cambridge 1903 |
| Argiope fastuosa Banks 1909 |
| Metargiope trifasciata Tullgren 1910 |
| Argiope trifasciata Petrunkevitch 1930 |
| Argiope simplex Badcock 1932 |
| Austrargiope plana Kishida 1936 |
| Metargyope trifasciata Lawrence 1936 |
| Argiope abalosi Mello-Leitao 1942 |
| Argiope seminola Chamberlin & Ivie 1944 |
| Argiope stenogastra Mello-Leitao 1945 |
| Brachygea platycephala Caporiacco 1947 |
| Argiope trifasciata Kaston 1948 |
| Brachygea platycephala Caporiacco 1948 |
| Argiope pradhani Sinha 1952 |
| Argiope trifasciata Bücherl 1959 |
| Argiope trifasciata Main 1964 |
| Argiope trifasciata Hickman 1967 |
| Argiope trifasciata Shear 1967 |
| Argiope trifasciata Levi 1968 |
| Argiope avara Chrysanthus 1971 |
| Argiope trifasciata Chrysanthus 1972 |
| Argiope pradhani Tikader 1982 |
| Argiope trifasciata Levi 1983 |
| Argiope trifasciata Roberts 1983 |
| Argiope trifasciata Feng 1990 |
| Argiope trifasciata Breene et al. 1993 |
| Argiope trifasciata Bjorn 1997 |
| Argiope trifasciata Yin et al. 1997 |
| Argiope trifasciata Levy 1998 |
| Argiope trifasciata Song, Zhu & Chen 1999 |
| Argiope trifasciata Dondale et al. 2003 |
| Argiope trifasciata Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
| Argiope trifasciata Levi 2004 |
Taxonomic References†
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Badcock, A. D. 1932. Reports of an expedition to Paraguay and Brazil in 1926-1927 supported by the Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund and the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. Arachnida from the Paraguayan Chaco. Jour. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 38: 1-48.
Banks, N. 1909. Arachnida of Cuba. Estación central agronómica de Cuba, Second Report. II: 150-174.
Bjorn, P. P. 1997. A taxonomic revision of the African part of the orb-weaving genus Argiope (araneae: Araneidae). Ent. scand. 28: 199-239.
Blackwall, J. 1867. Notes on spiders, with descriptions of several species supposed to be new to arachnologists. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (3) 20: 202-213.
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.
Bücherl, W. 1959. Fauna aracnológica e alguns aspectos ecológicos da ilha de Trindade. Mems Inst. Butantan 29: 277-313.
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Caporiacco, L. di. 1948. Arachnida of British Guiana collected in 1931 and 1936 by Professors Beccari and Romiti. Proc. zool. Soc. London 118: 607-747.
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Chamberlin, R. V. & W. Ivie. 1944. Spiders of the Georgia region of North America. Bull. Univ. Utah 35(9): 1-267.
Chrysanthus, P. 1972. Description of the hitherto unknown males of Argiope reinwardti (Doleschall, 1859) and Cyrtophora monulfi Chrysanthus, 1960 (Araneae, Argiopidae). Zool. Meded. Leiden 47: 156-159.
Chrysanthus, P. 1971. Further notes on the spiders of New Guinea I (Argyopidae). Zool. Verh. Leiden 113: 1-52.
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.
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Forskål, P. 1776. Icones rerum naturalium, quas in itinere orientali depingi curavit Petrus Forskål. Hauniae, 43 pls. (Araneae, pls. 24-25).
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†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/ARANEIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Argiope Audouin, 1826‡‡
A. appensa (Walckenaer, 1842) ...............Hawaii, Taiwan to New Guinea
A. argentata (Fabricius, 1775) ...............USA to Argentina
A. aurantia Lucas, 1833 ...............Canada to Costa Rica
A. blanda O. P.-Cambridge, 1898 ...............USA to Costa Rica
A. bruennichi (Scopoli, 1772) ...............Palearctic
A. florida Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944 ...............USA
A. trifasciata kauaiensis Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution