Larinioides

Larinioides
L. cornutus
L. patagiatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Larinioides Caporiacco, 1934
Type species
L. suspicax (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876)
Species
7, see text

Larinioides is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1934. They mostly occur in temperate climates around the northern hemisphere. The name is derived from the related araneid spider genus Larinia, with the meaning "like Larinia".

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains seven species:

• Larinioides chabarovi (Bakhvalov, 1981) – Russia (Central Siberia to Far East)
• Larinioides cornutus (Clerck, 1757) – North America, Europe, Turkey, Israel, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, China, Korea, Japan
• Larinioides ixobolus (Thorell, 1873) – Western Europe to Central Asia
• Larinioides jalimovi (Bakhvalov, 1981) – Russia (Far East), Korea
• Larinioides patagiatus (Clerck, 1757) – North America, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Central Asia, China, Mongolia, Japan
• Larinioides sclopetarius (Clerck, 1757) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Central Asia), China, Korea. Introduced to North America
• Larinioides suspicax (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) – Europe, North Africa to Central Asia

References

External links

• Nieuwenhuys, Ed (17 November 2013). "Orb web spiders or orb-weavers". Retrieved 3 September 2014.

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