Spiders from Laos with descriptions of new species (Arachnida: Araneae)
Author
Jäger, Peter
text
Acta Arachnologica
2007
56
1
29
58
journal article
10.2476/asjaa.56.29
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818339
Argiope versicolor
(Doleschall 1859)
Material examined.
1
female
(
SMF
56339
), L1
.
3 females
,
1
juvenile
(
SMF
56350
), L5,
7.XI.2004
.
1
female
(
SMF
56365
), L6
.
1
male
(
SMF
56367
), L9, surroundings, by hand
.
1
female
(
SMF
56677
), L10, at night, by hand, 4. +
9.III.2006
.
1
female
(
SMF
56674
), L
13, 4.III.
2006
.
1
subadult female
(
SMF
56675
), L
13, 5.
III
.
2006
.
1
female
(
SMF
56384
), L20, outside cave, sweeping
.
1
female
(
SMF
56383
), L23
.
2 males
(
SMF
56316
), L29, by hand, 18.-
19.11.2003
.
1
male,
1
female,
1
subadult male,
2 juveniles
(
SMF
56324
)
,
1
female
(
SMF
56325
), L29, sweeping,
23.11.2003
.
1
female
(
SMF
56329
), L33
.
1
female
(
SMF
56331
), L34, surroundings, sweeping,
30.X.2004
.
Males could be clearly identified according to drawings of
Levi (1983)
. Copulatory organs of females are rather variable as shown in
Yin et al. (1997)
. The species occurred in various open habitats.