Metellina curtisi (McCook, 1894)
| FAMILY: TETRAGNATHIDAE Menge, 1866 Genus: Metellina Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941 Species: Metellina curtisi (McCook, 1894)  |
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Common Names
Family Common Name:
longjawed orbweavers
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Point Collections & Seasonality
Global Distribution: North America
Nearctic States & Provinces: 
BC AK CA WA
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Seasonality
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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): orbweb in low shrubs next to trail through conifer forest, 100' elev; On builing in fir forest; Beside small subalpine pool; Mixed hardwood and coniferous forest; Beside spring; In abandoned gold mine, 500 pieds from entrence; Coastal forest litter; Riparian in Redwood forest; Alpine lake; Moist area; Forest; Deciduous schrubs in Douglas fir forest; Foliage; Moisty forest; Red cedar; orbweb in low shrubs next to trail through conifer forest, 50' elev; Swampy area; Moss rotten wood litter;
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
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Synonyms and Chresonyms‡
Taxonomic References‡
Chamberlin, R. V. & W. Ivie. 1941. Spiders collected by L. W. Saylor and others, mostly in California. Bull. Univ. Utah 31(8): 1-49.
Dondale, C. D., J. H. Redner, P. Paquin & H. W. Levi. 2003. The insects and arachnids of Canada. Part 23. The orb-weaving spiders of Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Uloboridae, Tetragnathidae, Araneidae, Theridiosomatidae). NRC Research Press, Ottawa, 371 pp.
Gertsch, W. J. & W. Ivie. 1936. Descriptions of new American spiders. Amer. Mus. Novit. 858: 1-25.
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. 
Levi, H. W. 1980. The orb-weaver genus Mecynogea, the subfamily Metinae and the genera Pachygnatha, Glenognatha and Azilia of the subfamily Tetragnathinae north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 149: 1-7
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.
‡Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog
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