Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837)

Zamani, Alireza, Marusik, Yuri M. & Sestakova, Anna, 2020, On Araniella and Neoscona (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Caucasus, Middle East and Central Asia, ZooKeys 906, pp. 13-40 : 13

Neoscona subfusca (C. L. Koch, 1837)

Neoscona subfusca : Grasshoff 1986: 15, fig. 2, 4, 11-24 (♂♀); Levy 1998: 336, fig. 96-107 (♂♀).

Diagnosis.

This species well differs from other species occurring in the region by the abdomen being as wide as long in the female and with small horns in the male (vs. abdomen longer than wide and lacking horns).

Description.

See above-cited literature.

Distribution.

Entire Africa, Mediterranean ( Grasshoff 1986) to Turkmenistan ( Mikhailov 2013).1