Antrodiaetus unicolor (Hentz, 1842)
| FAMILY: ANTRODIAETIDAE Gertsch, 1940 Genus: Antrodiaetus Ausserer, 1871 Species: Antrodiaetus unicolor (Hentz, 1842) ![]() |
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Common Names
Family Common Name:
foldingdoor spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Point Collections & Seasonality
Global Distribution: USA
Nearctic States & Provinces:
NC PA SC VA WV
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Seasonality
Specimen Search
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Natural History & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:† (not yet recorded or unknown)
†Feeding guild when noted defined by Uetz, G. W., J. Halaj, and A. B. Cady. 1999. Guild structure of spiders in major crops. Journal of Arachnology 27:270-280. PDF
Habitat (published): (not yet published or unknown)
Life & Natural History: (not yet recorded or unknown)
Image(s) of Habitus:
Details About Males
Description: (not yet recorded or unknown)
| Male Dimensions: (Dimensions not yet available) |
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Details About Females
Description: (not yet recorded or unknown)
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Synonyms and Chresonyms‡
Atkinson, G., F. 1886. Descriptions of some new trapdoor spiders; their nests and food habits. Ent. Amer. 2: 109-117, 128-137.
Ausserer, A. 1871. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor). Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wein 21: 117-224.
Comstock, J. H. 1912. The spider book; a manual for the study of the spiders and their near relatives, the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whipscorpions, harvestmen and other members of the class Arachnida, found in America north of Mexico, with analytical keys for their classification and popular accounts of their habits. Garden City, New York, pp. 1-721
Coyle, F. A. 1971. Systematics and natural history of the mygalomorph spider genus Antrodiaetus and related genera (Araneae: Antrodiaetidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 141: 269-402.
Eskov, K. Y. & S. Zonstein. 1990. First Mesozoic mygalomorph spiders from the Lower Cretaceous of Siberia and Mongolia, with notes on the system and evolution of the infraorder Mygalomorphae (Chelicerata: Araneae). N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh. 178: 325-368.
Gertsch, W. J. & N. I. Platnick. 1979. A revision of the spider family Mecicobothriidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). Am. Mus. Novit. 2687: 1-32. 
Hendrixson, B. E. & J. E. Bond. 2005. Two sympatric species of Antrodiaetus from southwestern North Carolina (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Antrodiaetidae). Zootaxa 872: 1-19.
Hentz, N. M. 1842. Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston J. nat. Hist. 4: 54-57, 223-231.
Michalik, P., W. Reiher, M. Tintelnot-Suhm, F. A. Coyle & G. Alberti. 2005. Female genital system of the folding-trapdoor spider Antrodiaetus unicolor (Hentz, 1842) (Antrodiaetidae, Araneae): untrastructural study of form and function with notes on reproductive biology of spiders. J. Morph. 263: 284-309. 
Petrunkevitch, A. 1939. Catalogue of American spiders. Part one. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 33: 133-338.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1911. A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greeland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 29: 1-791. 
Simon, E. 1892. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris, 1: 1-256.
Simon, E. 1884. Note sur le groupe des Mecicobothria. Bull. Soc. zool. France 9: 313-317.
Whitmyre, G. & R. Snetsinger. 1967. A folding-door tarantula from Pennsylvania. Melsheimer ent. Ser. 1: 1-4.
‡Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog





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