Araniella

Araniella is a genus of orb-weaver spiders (family Araneidae) first described by R. V. Chamberlin & Wilton Ivie in 1942.^[2] The genus includes Araniella cucurbitina, the cucumber green spider.

Araniella
Araniella cucurbitina from Eckernförde, Germany
Araniella displicata from Woodbridge, Virginia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Araniella Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942[1]
Type species
A. displicata (Hentz, 1847)
Species
18, see text

Species

As of May 2023^[update], the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:^[1]

• Araniella alpica (L. Koch, 1869) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Western Siberia), Iran?
• Araniella coreana Namkung, 2002 – Korea
• Araniella cucurbitina (Clerck, 1757) – Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe) to Central Asia, China, Korea
• Araniella displicata (Hentz, 1847) – North America, Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, China, Korea, Japan
• Araniella inconspicua (Simon, 1874) – Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to Far East), Central Asia, China, Iran?
• Araniella jilinensis Yin & Zhu, 1994 – China
• Araniella levii Zamani & Marusik, 2020 – India
• Araniella maasdorpi Zamani & Marusik, 2020 – India
• Araniella maderiana (Kulczyński, 1905) – Canary Is., Madeira
• Araniella mithra Zamani, Marusik & Šestáková, 2020 – Iran
• Araniella nigromaculata (Schenkel, 1963) – China
• Araniella nympha (Simon, 1889) – Pakistan, India, China
• Araniella opisthographa (Kulczyński, 1905) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe) to Central Asia, Iran
• Araniella plicata Mi & Peng, 2016 – China
• Araniella proxima (Kulczyński, 1885) – North America, Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), Turkey, Kazakhstan
• Araniella robusta Lee, Yoo & Kim, 2021 – Korea
• Araniella villanii Zamani, Marusik & Šestáková, 2020 – Iran, Kazakhstan, India
• Araniella yaginumai Tanikawa, 1995 – Russia (South Siberia to Far East), Korea, China, Taiwan, Japan