Araneus

Taxobox
name = "Araneus"

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image_caption = "Araneus heroine"
image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Araneomorphae
familia = Araneidae
subfamilia =
genus = "Araneus"
genus_authority = Clerck, 1757
diversity_link = List of Araneidae species: A#Araneus
diversity = 643 species
type_species = "Araneus diadematus"
type_species_authority = Clerck, 1757
range_

range_map_width = 250px
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision ="A. alsine"
"A. amabilis"
"A. ryukyuanus"
"A. seminiger"
"A. angulatus"
"A. cavaticus"
"A. circe"
"A. diadematus"
"A. grossus"
"A. illaudatus"
"A. marmoreus"
"A. nordmanni"
"A. quadratus"
"A. trifolium"
"A. ventricosus"
"A. viridiventris"
"hundreds others"

"Araneus" is a genus of orb-weaving spiders including the European garden spider and the barn spider. In females, the epigyne has a long scape (a tongue-like appendage). Male pedipalps have a hook-like terminal apophysis. Abdominal tubercles are present anterolaterally.

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External links

* [http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/spidermyth/images/trifolium.jpgImage of variations in "A. trifolium"] (from [http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/spidermyth/myths/easy.html Spider myths] )
* [http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/subimages.cfm?SUB=11514 Pictures of US "Araneus" species] (free for noncommercial use)
* [http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/subimages.cfm?SUB=13808 Pictures of "A. trifolium"] (free for noncommercial use)