Dolichognatha pentagona (Hentz, 1850)
| FAMILY: TETRAGNATHIDAE Menge, 1866 Genus: Dolichognatha O. P.-Cambridge, 1869 Species: Dolichognatha pentagona (Hentz, 1850)  |
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Common Names
Family Common Name:
longjawed orbweavers
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Point Collections & Seasonality
Global Distribution: USA to Venezuela
Nearctic States & Provinces: 
GA
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Seasonality
Specimen Search
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Natural History & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:† orb weavers
†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)
Habitat (<30 randomly chosen specimens): Millpond plant;
Life & Natural History: (not yet recorded or unknown)
Image(s) of Habitus: 
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Details About Males
Description: (not yet recorded or unknown)
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Details About Females
Description: (not yet recorded or unknown)
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Synonyms and Chresonyms‡
Taxonomic References‡
Bryant, E. B. & A. F. Archer. 1940. Notes on Epeira pentagona Hentz. Psyche, Camb. 47: 60-65.
Cambridge, O. P.-. 1895. Arachnida. Araneida. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 1: 145-160.
Coddington, J. A. 1990. Ontogeny and homology in the male palpus of orb-weaving spiders and their relatives, with comments on phylogeny (Araneoclada: Araneoidea, Deinopoidea). Smithson. Contrib. Zool. 496: 1-52.
Hentz, N. M. 1850. Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston J. nat. Hist. 6: 18-35, 271-295.
Hormiga, G., W. G. Eberhard & J. A. Coddington. 1995. Web-construction behaviour in Australian Phonognatha and the phylogeny of nephiline and tetragnathid spiders (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Aust. J. Zool. 43: 313-364. 
Keyserling, E. 1893. Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Nürnberg, 4: 209-377.
Kraus, O. 1955. Spinnen aus El Salvador (Arachnoidea, Araneae). Abh. senckenb. naturforsch. Ges. 493: 1-112.
Levi, H. W. 1981. The American orb-weaver genera Dolichognatha and Tetragnatha north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae, Tetragnathinae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 149: 271-318.
McCook, H. C. 1894. American spiders and their spinningwork. Philadelphia, 3: 1-285.
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. 1897. On the spiders of the island of St Vincent. III. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1897: 860-890.
‡Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog
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