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Orb-weaver spiders of the genus Argiope (Aranei, Araneidae) from Russia and Central Asia

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Three species of the genus Argiope are redescribed based on new material from Russia and Central Asia: the cosmopolitan A. bruennichi (Scopoli, 1772), the Trans-Palaearctic A. lobata (Pallas, 1772), and the Central Asian A. ahngeri Spassky, 1932). The male of A. ahngeri is described for the first time. A new key to the Russian and Central Asian species of the genus Argiope using several additional taxonomic characters is provided.

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    A. V. Tiunov & S. L. Esyunin

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Tiunov, S.L. Esyunin, 2014, published in Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2014, Vol. 93, No. 11, pp. 1316–1325.

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Tiunov, A.V., Esyunin, S.L. Orb-weaver spiders of the genus Argiope (Aranei, Araneidae) from Russia and Central Asia. Entmol. Rev. 95, 99–107 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873815010121

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