Oxyopes salticus Hentz, 1845
striped lynx spider
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FAMILY: OXYOPIDAE Thorell, 1870 Genus: Oxyopes Latreille, 1804 Species: Oxyopes salticus Hentz, 1845  |
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Common Names
Family Common Name:
lynx spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
striped lynx spider
Point Collections & Seasonality
Global Distribution: USA to Brazil
Nearctic States & Provinces: 
AR CA CO LA NC OK PA SC TX VA WY
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Seasonality
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Natural History & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:† stalkers
†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): early second growth; Riparian; Pine-oak sandy scrub; Lake edge;
Life & Natural History: (not yet recorded or unknown)
Image(s) of Habitus:
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‡
Blackwall, J. 1862. Descriptions of newly discovered spiders captured in Rio de Janeiro, by John Gray and the Rev. Hamlet Clark [part]. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (3) 10: 348-360.
Brady, A. R. 1975. The lynx spider genus Oxyopes in Mexico and Central America (Araneae: Oxyopidae). Psyche, Camb. 82: 189-243. 
Brady, A. R. 1964. The lynx spiders of North America, north of Mexico (Araneae: Oxyopidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 131: 429-518.
Breene, R. G., D. A. Dean, M. Nyffeler & G. B. Edwards. 1993. Biology, Predation Ecology, and Significance of Spiders in Texas Cotton Ecosystems with a Key to Species. Texas Agriculture Experiment Station, College Station, 115 pp.
Cambridge, F. O. P.-. 1902. Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2: 313-424.
Chamberlin, R. V. 1929. On three new spiders of the genus Oxyopes (Araneina). Ent. News 40: 17-20.
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
Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. 2005. On the taxonomic relations of lynx spiders from the canopy of a tropical Asian rainforest (Araneae: Oxyopidae). In Logunov, D. V. & D. Penney (eds.), European Arachnology 2003 (Proceedings of the 21st European Colloquium of Arachnology, St.-Petersburg, 4-9 August 2003). Arthropoda Selecta, Special Issue 1: 41-52.
Dondale, C. D. & J. H. Redner. 1990. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 17. The wolf spiders, nurseryweb spiders, and lynx spiders of Canada and Alaska, Araneae: Lycosidae, Pisauridae, and Oxyopidae. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1856: 1-383.
Emerton, J. H. 1902. The common spiders of the United States. Boston, pp. 1-225.
Hentz, N. M. 1845. Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston J. nat. Hist. 5: 189-202.
Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.
Keyserling, E. 1891. Die Spinnen Amerikas. Brasilianische Spinnen. Nürnberg, 3: 1-278.
Keyserling, E. 1877. Ueber amerikanische Spinnenarten der Unterordnung Citigradae. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 26: 609-708.
Mello-Leitao, C. F. de. 1929. Oxyopideos do Brasil. Rev. Mus. Paulista 16: 489-536.
Montgomery, T. H. 1902. Descriptions of Lycosidae and Oxyopidae of Philadelphia and its vicinity. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 54: 534-592.
Muma, M. H. 1943. Common spiders of Maryland. Natural History Society of Maryland, Baltimore, 179 pp.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1929. The spiders of Porto Rico. Part one. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 30: 1-158.
Simon, E. 1897. On the spiders of the island of St Vincent. III. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1897: 860-890.
Taczanowski, L. 1874. Les aranéides de la Guyane française. Horae Soc. ent. Ross. 10: 56-115.
Townsend, V. R., Jr., B. E. Felgenhauer & J. F. Grimshaw. 2001. Comparative morphology of the Australian lynx spiders of the genus Oxyopes (Araneae: Oxyopidae). Aust. J. Zool. 49: 561-576. 
Tullgren, A. 1905. Aranedia from the Swedish expedition through the Gran Chaco and the Cordilleras. Ark. Zool. 2(19): 1-81.
‡Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog
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