Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods) ➔ Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates) ➔ Class Arachnida (Arachnids) ➔ Order Araneae (Spiders) ➔ Family Araneidae (Orbweaver spiders)

Neoscona byzanthina (Pavesi, 1876)

Synonyms and other combinations:

Epeira byzanthina Pavesi, 1876 | Epeira turcica Simon, 1879 |

  • Neoscona byzanthina, female  3946
    Neoscona byzanthina (Pavesi, 1876)     
    Neoscona byzanthina, female, conf. Tobias Bauer
    BG, Russalka; 2010-08-22 10:38:33
    Image number: 3946
    female
    BG, Russalka
    2010-08-22 10:38:33
    conf. Tobias Bauer
  • Neoscona byzanthina, female  3903
    Neoscona byzanthina (Pavesi, 1876)     
    Neoscona byzanthina, female, conf. Tobias Bauer
    BG, Russalka; 2010-08-17 16:06:14
    Image number: 3903
    female
    BG, Russalka
    2010-08-17 16:06:14
    conf. Tobias Bauer
  • Neoscona byzanthina, female  3904
    Neoscona byzanthina (Pavesi, 1876)     
    Neoscona byzanthina, female
    BG, Russalka; 2010-08-17 16:06:19
    Image number: 3904
    female
    BG, Russalka
    2010-08-17 16:06:19

  • Neoscona byzanthina, female  3905
    Neoscona byzanthina (Pavesi, 1876)     
    Neoscona byzanthina, female
    BG, Russalka; 2010-08-17 16:08:00
    Image number: 3905
    female
    BG, Russalka
    2010-08-17 16:08:00

  • Neoscona byzanthina, female  3907
    Neoscona byzanthina (Pavesi, 1876)     
    Neoscona byzanthina, female
    BG, Russalka; 2010-08-17 16:03:10
    Image number: 3907
    female
    BG, Russalka
    2010-08-17 16:03:10

  • Neoscona byzanthina, female  9839
    Neoscona byzanthina (Pavesi, 1876)     
    Neoscona byzanthina, female
    BG, Russalka; 2010-08-22 11:10:22
    Image number: 9839
    female
    BG, Russalka
    2010-08-22 11:10:22

  • Neoscona byzanthina, female  9840
    Neoscona byzanthina (Pavesi, 1876)     
    Neoscona byzanthina, female
    BG, Russalka; 2010-08-22 11:10:52
    Image number: 9840
    female
    BG, Russalka
    2010-08-22 11:10:52

  • Neoscona byzanthina, female  9842
    Neoscona byzanthina (Pavesi, 1876)     
    Neoscona byzanthina, female
    BG, Russalka; 2010-08-22 11:10:06
    Image number: 9842
    female
    BG, Russalka
    2010-08-22 11:10:06

  • Neoscona byzanthina, female  9841
    Neoscona byzanthina (Pavesi, 1876)     
    Neoscona byzanthina, female
    BG, Russalka; 2010-08-22 11:30:53
    Image number: 9841
    female
    BG, Russalka
    2010-08-22 11:30:53

  • Neoscona byzanthina, female  3906
    Neoscona byzanthina (Pavesi, 1876)     
    Neoscona byzanthina, female
    BG, Russalka; 2010-08-17 16:10:00
    Image number: 3906
    female
    BG, Russalka
    2010-08-17 16:10:00

  • Neoscona byzanthina, hiding place  9843
    Neoscona byzanthina (Pavesi, 1876)     
    Neoscona byzanthina, hiding place
    BG, Russalka; 2010-08-20 17:39:10
    Image number: 9843
    hiding place
    BG, Russalka
    2010-08-20 17:39:10

  • Neoscona byzanthina, male  3941
    Neoscona byzanthina (Pavesi, 1876)     
    Neoscona byzanthina, male, conf. Tobias Bauer
    BG, Russalka; 2010-08-17 11:16:07
    Image number: 3941
    male
    BG, Russalka
    2010-08-17 11:16:07
    conf. Tobias Bauer
  • Neoscona byzanthina, male  3942
    Neoscona byzanthina (Pavesi, 1876)     
    Neoscona byzanthina, male
    BG, Russalka; 2010-08-17 11:16:52
    Image number: 3942
    male
    BG, Russalka
    2010-08-17 11:16:52

  • Neoscona byzanthina, male  3943
    Neoscona byzanthina (Pavesi, 1876)     
    Neoscona byzanthina, male
    BG, Russalka; 2010-08-17 11:17:38
    Image number: 3943
    male
    BG, Russalka
    2010-08-17 11:17:38

  • Neoscona byzanthina, male  3949
    Neoscona byzanthina (Pavesi, 1876)     
    Neoscona byzanthina, male, det. Maria Naumova
    BG, Russalka; 2010-08-22 11:19:00
    Image number: 3949
    male
    BG, Russalka
    2010-08-22 11:19:00
    det. Maria Naumova
  • Neoscona byzanthina, male  3950
    Neoscona byzanthina (Pavesi, 1876)     
    Neoscona byzanthina, male, det. Maria Naumova
    BG, Russalka; 2010-08-22 11:20:18
    Image number: 3950
    male
    BG, Russalka
    2010-08-22 11:20:18
    det. Maria Naumova

Distribution:
Spanien, France, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Southern European Russia

References, further reading, links:
  1. Kropf C., Nentwig W., Blick T. & Gloor D. (organizing board). (2019). WSC: World Spider Catalog (version 19.5, Jan 2019). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.
  2. Arachnologische Gesellschaft e. V. (2015): Wiki des Spinnen-Forums
  3. Carlos Mora-Rubio, Eduardo Morano & José Luis Pérez-Bote: First record of Neoscona byzanthina (Pavesi, 1876) (Araneae, Araneidae) from the Iberian Peninsula. Graellsia, 75(2): e092. https://doi.org/10.3989/graellsia.2019.v75.237
  4. Geci, Donard & Naumova, Maria. (2021). The Spotted Orb-weaver Neoscona byzanthina (Pavesi, 1876) - An Enigmatic but Common Species on the Balkans (Araneae: Araneidae). Ecologia Balkanica. Special Edition 4. 1-9.