The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/16694

Neoscona arabesca (Walckenaer, 1842)
arabesque orbweaver

FAMILY: ARANEIDAE Simon, 1895
    Genus: Neoscona Simon, 1864
        Species: Neoscona arabesca (Walckenaer, 1842)

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:   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: 

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: Marlin, Bruce


Credit: Murray, Tom

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†

Neoscona arabesca Walckenaer 1842
Epeira trivittata Keyserling 1864
Epeira trivittata Emerton 1884
Epeira trivittata Keyserling 1892
Epeira arabesca McCook 1894
Epeira singularis Banks 1898
Epeira trivittata Emerton 1902
Neoscona arabesca F. O. P.-Cambridge 1904
Neoscona minima F. O. P.-Cambridge 1904
Epeira minima Banks 1909
Araneus arabesca Petrunkevitch 1911
Araneus minimus Petrunkevitch 1911
Araneus singularis Petrunkevitch 1911
Neoscona minima Gertsch & Mulaik 1936
Neoscona arabesca Comstock 1940
Neoscona arabesca Muma 1943
Neoscona arabesca Kaston 1948
Neoscona minima Kaston 1948
Neoscona arabesca Berman & Levi 1971
Neoscona arabesca Barrion et al. 1988
Neoscona minima Barrion et al. 1988
Neoscona arabesca Coddington 1990
Neoscona arabesca Levi 1991
Neoscona arabesca Breene et al. 1993
Neoscona arabesca Levi 1993
Neoscona arabesca Levi 2002
Neoscona arabesca Dondale et al. 2003
Neoscona arabesca Paquin & Dupérré 2003

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 accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/ARANEIDAE.html

Other Nearctic Members of Genus Neoscona Simon, 1864‡‡

N. adianta (Walckenaer, 1802) ...............Palearctic
N. crucifera (Lucas, 1838) ...............North America, Canary Is., Madeira, Hawaii
N. domiciliorum (Hentz, 1847) ...............USA
N. oaxacensis (Keyserling, 1864) ...............USA to Peru, Galapagos Is.
N. pratensis (Hentz, 1847) ...............USA, Canada
N. utahana (Chamberlin, 1919) ...............USA, Mexico

‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution