Argiope bruennichi

Familia: Araneidae
Subfamilia: Argiopinae
Genus: Argiope
Species: Argiope bruennichi

Argiope bruennichi (Scopoli, 1772)

Type locality: Carniolia [Carinthia].

• Aranea brünnichii Scopoli, 1772
• Aranea speciosa Pallas, 1773: 732
• Aranea senoculata Lepechin, 1774: 316
• Aranea fasciata Fabricius, 1775: 433
• Aranea zebra Sulzer, 1776: 254
• Aranea formosa Cyrillus, 1787: 7
• Aranea pulchra Razoumowsky, 1787: 372
• Aranea caspia Gmelin, 1789: 2959
• Miranda transalpina C. L. Koch, 1835
• Argiope brünnichii africana Strand, 1906: 618
• Argiope bruennuchi nigrofasciata Franganillo, 1910: 7
• Argiope bruennichi orientalis Strand, 1907
• Miranda zabonica Chamberlin, 1924

• Scopoli, J.A. 1772. Observationes zoologicae. In: Annus V, Historico-naturalis. Lipsiae, pp. 70–128 (Araneae, pp. 125–126). [[original description: p. 125]
• Strand, E. 1906. Diagnosen nordafrikanischer, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelter Spinnen. Zoologischer anzeiger 30: 604–637, 655–690. BHL Reference page.  [original description of Argiope brünnichii africana: p. 618]

• Levi, H. W. 1983. The orb-weaver genera Argiope, Gea, and Neogea from the western Pacific region (Araneae: Araneidae, Argiopinae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 150: 247–338. [282, f. 81-86]
• Cardoso, P. 2000: Portuguese spiders (Araneae): a preliminary checklist. Ekológia (Bratislava), 19(supplement 3): 19–29. PDF [see p. 23, listed]

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