Characteristics of Araneus hui (an orb-weaving spider) What are the characteristics of _Araneus hui_? Neither thematic literature nor photos was found. Mentioned in RU Wikipedia, reference wasn't found. <

These pages cite papers that mention A.hui:

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The World Spider Catalog (WSC) offers papers to their users for free, and it is a free registration.

Browsing through the second pdf on the WSC, here is a sketch of the dorsal (top) view of the species:

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The paper is primarily written in a language I cannot read. The specific paper (book?) is:

Hu, J. L. (2001). Spiders in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China. Henan Science and Technology Publishing House, 658 pp.

658 pages is quite volumnous. The title of the paper suggests we limit our search to Tibet. Searching for Araneus images on iNaturalist in Tibet, there is a picture of one Araneus that has not been identified to species level, but it resembles the abdominal shape as in the drawing in the paper:

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But the abdominal markings do not match at all. If you expand the geographical bounding box of the search around Tibet, you can browse a gallery of hundreds of possible pictures.