Metepeira labyrinthea (Hentz, 1847)
labyrinth orbweaver
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FAMILY: ARANEIDAE Simon, 1895 Genus: Metepeira F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1903 Species: Metepeira labyrinthea (Hentz, 1847)  |
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Common Names
Family Common Name:
orbweavers
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
labyrinth orbweaver
Distribution
Global Distribution: North America
Nearctic States & Provinces: (from the Nearctic Spider Database) 
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Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected: (from the Nearctic Spider Database)
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Natural History, Phenology & 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
Recorded Habitats: (not yet recorded or unknown)
Life & Natural History: (not yet recorded or unknown)
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Details About Males
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Synonyms and Chresonyms‡
Taxonomic References‡
Bücherl, W. 1959. Fauna aracnológica e alguns aspectos ecológicos da ilha de Trindade. Mems Inst. Butantan 29: 277-313.
Cambridge, F. O. P.-. 1903. Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2: 425-464.
Chamberlin, R. V. 1924. The spider fauna of the shores and islands of the Gulf of California. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 12: 561-694.
Chamberlin, R. V. & W. Ivie. 1942. A hundred new species of American spiders. Bull. Univ. Utah 32(13): 1-117.
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.
Comstock, J. H. 1940. The spider book, revised and edited by W. J. Gertsch. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, xi + 727 pp.
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.
Emerton, J. H. 1902. The common spiders of the United States. Boston, pp. 1-225.
Emerton, J. H. 1884. New England spiders of the family Epeiridae. Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci. 6: 295-342.
Franganillo B., P. 1936. Los ar cnidos de Cuba hasta 1936. Cultural, La Habana, 183 pp.
Hentz, N. M. 1847. Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston J. nat. Hist. 5: 443-478.
Holmberg, E. L. 1881. Arácnidos. In Informe oficial de la Comisión científica agregada al Estado Mayor General de la Expedición al Rio Negro (Patagonia) ... bajo los órdenes del General D. Julio A. Roca. Entrega I. Buenos Aires, Zoología: 117-168.
Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.
Keyserling, E. 1893. Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Nürnberg, 4: 209-377.
Keyserling, E. 1864. Beschreibungen neuer und wenig bekannter Arten aus der Familie Orbitelae Latr. oder Epeiridae Sund. Sitz.-ber. nat. Ges. Isis Dresden 1863: 63-98, 119-154.
Levi, H. W. 2002. Keys to the genera of araneid orbweavers (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Americas. J. Arachnol. 30: 527-562. 
Levi, H. W. 1977. The orb-weaver genera Metepeira, Kaira and Aculepeira in America north of Mexico (Araneae, Araneidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 148: 185-238.
McCook, H. C. 1894. American spiders and their spinningwork. Philadelphia, 3: 1-285.
Muma, M. H. 1943. Common spiders of Maryland. Natural History Society of Maryland, Baltimore, 179 pp.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1930. The spiders of Porto Rico. Part two. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 30: 159-356.
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. 
Piel, W. H. 2001. The systematics of Neotropical orb-weaving spiders in the genus Metepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 157: 1-92.
Roewer, C. F. 1942. Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940. Bremen, 1: 1-1040.
Simon, E. 1904. Etude sur les arachnides du Chili recueillis en 1900, 1901 et 1902, par MM. C. Porter, Dr Delfin, Barcey Wilson et Edwards. Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 48: 83-114.
‡Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog
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