Araneus angulatus
Clerck, 1757 · speciesAt a glance
Sources10 archives
Databases and archives Araneus angulatus's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation12 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility6 831 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI39 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics32 specimens↗
World Spider Trait DBMasaryk University14 traits · 27 refs↗
World Spider CatalogNaturhist. Museum Bernworld catalog↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Araneus angulatus is a species of orb-weaving spiders found in the Palearctic realm. It resembles the European garden spider, Araneus diadematus, but has distinctive tubercles on its abdomen. The species was first described in Aranei Svecici in 1757, where it was the first species described, making Araneus angulatus the first scientific name of an animal that is still in use.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Compiled from 27 sources
Morphometry6
Predation1
Ecology6
Defence1
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Araneus angulatus has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
Besides the big genome in the nucleus, cells carry a small, circular loop of DNA inside the cell's energy factories — the mitochondria. It is inherited almost only from the mother and is a leftover from ancient bacteria that moved into the cell. The mitochondrial markers above (ND*, COX, CYTB…) are read from exactly this loop. Outer ring = one strand, inner ring = the other.
The complete instruction manual Araneus angulatus carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
Record type6 831 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions12 of 33 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Helsinki, FI | 80 |
| Ekaterinburg, RU | 27 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 23 |
| Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 19 |
| Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology (IPAE), UB RASlocation not on record | 14 |
| Tartu, EE | 8 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 8 |
| Uniwersytet w Białymstokulocation not on record | 7 |
| Bonn, DE | 7 |
| 7 | |
| Brussels, BE | 7 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 6 |
| UAclocation not on record | 6 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 6 |
| MZLUlocation not on record | 4 |
| Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Karlsruhe (State Museum of Natural History)location not on record | 4 |
| Washington, US | 3 |
| University of Guelphlocation not on record | 3 |
| Royal Museum for Central Africalocation not on record | 3 |
| Bern, CH | 2 |
| San Francisco, US | 2 |
| FETSlocation not on record | 2 |
| NSMKlocation not on record | 2 |
| Research Collection of E. Kuzminlocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Lodz, Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiologylocation not on record | 1 |
| Akademia Pomorska w Słupskulocation not on record | 1 |
| neflocation not on record | 1 |
| Museum of Zoology at the University of Bergen, Invertebrate Collectionlocation not on record | 1 |
| Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology (IPAE) UB RASlocation not on record | 1 |
| Copenhagen, DK | 1 |
| Prioksko-Terrasnyi Biosphere Reservelocation not on record | 1 |
| South Kensington, GB | 1 |
| European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record | 1 |
Where the DNA of Araneus angulatus was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.