Family: Araneidae Simon, 1895 | key
Genus: Zygiella F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1902 | key
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    Zygiella x-notata (Clerck, 1757)      [urn:lsid:amnh.org:spidersp:017187]
    Description

    Tibia of male palpal only slightly longer than wide. Epigyne with groove, covered by thick chitinous bulges. Prosoma yellow-brown, margin and region between fovea and eye region darkened. Sternum almost black, with yellow median spot. Chelicerae dark brown to black. Legs dark brown, annulated and spotted with black. Opisthosoma black, yellow and grey patterned, middle of folium often shiny silver, ventrally with dark median stripe.

    Body length male: 3.5-8 mm, Body length female: 5.7-12 mm

    Additional information

    on buildings and fences, rarely on trees and rocks
    very frequent in some places, becoming rarer in the east

    Distribution
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    Global distribution (Platnick 2013): Holarctic, Neotropical

    Phenology

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    References

    Bayram A, Kunt K B, Danýþman T (2012) The Checklist of the Spiders of Turkey. Version 2012.1 Online at http://www.spidersofturkey.com

    Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British Spiders 2. Ray Soc London

    Loksa I (1972) Pokok II-Araneae II. Fauna Hungariae 109: 3.1-3.112.

    Otto S, Tramp S (2011) Caucasian Spiders – A faunistic Database on the Spiders of the Caucasus (Version 2.0 Beta).
    Internet: db.caucasus-spiders.info/Area/152 (July 2011)

    Platnick N I (2013) The world spider catalog, version 13.5. American Museum of Natural History, online at http://research.amnh.org/iz/spiders/catalog. DOI: 10.5531/db.iz.0001

    Roberts M J (1995) Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe. Collins Field Guide Bath

    van Helsdingen P J (2010) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org

    Vrenozi B (2012) A collection of spiders (Araneae) in Albanian coastal areas. Ara Mitt 44: 41-46.

    Wiehle H (1931) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, VI. 27: Familie Araneidae. Tierwelt Deutschlands 23.