“…Syn. Araneus cucurbitinus Clerck, 1757 Jammu and Kashmir (Pickard-Cambridge, 1885;Caporiacco, 1935;Khan, 2009;Punjoo and Bhat, 2015) Maharashtra (Meshram, 2011;Vairale and Wagh, 2021) Meghalaya (Tikader and Biswas, 1981;Tikader, 1982;Biswas and Majumder, 1995; Odisha Uttarakhand (Rajpoot et al, 2017) Elsewhere: Central Asia, China, Europe, Korea, Russia, Turkey (Pocock, 1900;Tikader, 1982;Majumder and Talukdar, 2013) Andhra Pradesh (Srinivasulu et al, 2004a;Rao et al, 2005;Palem et al, 2016) Assam (Chetia and Kalita, 2012;Singh et al, 2012;Gupta et al, 2015;Saha et al, 2015;Ahmed, 2018) Bihar (Priyadarshini et al, 2015) Chhattisgarh (Gajbe and Sharma, 1994;Gajbe, 2003bGajbe, , 2004aKujur and Ekka, 2016;Ekka and Kujur, 2015) Goa (Bastawade and Borkar, 2008;Halarnkar and Pai, 2018;Pandit and Dharwadkar, 2020) Gujarat (Pocock, 1900;Tikader, 1982;Patel, 2003b;Siliwal et al, 2003a, b;Yadav et al, 2017;Yadav and Kumar, 2019) Jammu and Kashmir (Chandra et al, 2021) Karnataka (Nalini…”