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The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature. The WSC began as a series of web pages in 2000, created by Norman I. Platnick of the American Museum of Natural History.
The spider species Araneus diadematus is commonly called the European garden spider, cross orbweaver, diadem spider, orangie, cross spider, and crowned orb weaver.It is sometimes called the pumpkin spider, [2] although this name is also used for a different species, Araneus marmoreus. [3]
The WGSRPD continent of Europe. This category contains articles about spiders that have a European native distribution, rather than being limited to particular regions or countries in Europe. Spiders native to Europe may also be found in categories covering larger areas: Category:Cosmopolitan spiders – spiders native worldwide
Spiders of this genus present perhaps the most obvious case of sexual dimorphism among all of the orb-weaver family, with males being normally 1 ⁄ 3 to 1 ⁄ 4 the size of females. In A. diadematus , for example, last-molt females can reach the body size up to 1 in (2.5 cm), while most males seldom grow over 0.3 in (1 cm), both excluding leg ...
The giant house spider has been treated as either one species, under the name Eratigena atrica, or as three species, E. atrica, E. duellica and E. saeva. As of April 2020, the three species view was accepted by the World Spider Catalog. They are among the largest spiders of Central and Northern Europe.
Paintings of Araneus angulatus from Svenska Spindlar of 1757, the first major work on spider taxonomy. Spider taxonomy is the part of taxonomy that is concerned with the science of naming, defining and classifying all spiders, members of the Araneae order of the arthropod class Arachnida, which has more than 52,700 described species.
Evarcha is a genus of spiders in the family ... Africa and parts of Europe, ... , the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species: Evarcha acuta ...
As of June 2022, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following extant species: [1] Rhene albigera (C. L. Koch, 1846) – India to Korea , Sumatra Rhene amanzi Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013 – South Africa