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Titanoeca nivalis Simon, 1874

	FAMILY: TITANOECIDAE Lehtinen, 1967     Genus: Titanoeca Thorell, 1870         Species: Titanoeca nivalis Simon, 1874
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Family Common Name:  titanoecid spiders
Genus Common Name:  none
Species Common Name:  none

Global Distribution: Holarctic
Nearctic States & Provinces: AB YT CO MT

Specimen Search Specimen list 40, 76

Feeding Guild:^† sheet web builders
^†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): Under logs and stones in cool, sheltered places, deciduous woods, ground litter, stoney mountain slopes, retreats under slabs of rock.
Habitat (<30 randomly chosen specimens): Deciduous-dominant with coniferous understory, Control; Ridge top; Aspen; Rocky mountainside; Lodgepole Pine closed Forest; Deciduous-dominant forest, 20% standing trees; Old growth; Badlands; Dry muskeg; Base camp. Beach; Beach ridge; Dry Grassland; Coniferous-dominant forest, clearcut; Scree Slope; Deciduous-dominant , contiguous forest; Base camp. Pine forest; Aspen, grass, willow;

Life & Natural History: Cone-shaped space web often found attached to the undersides of rocks or other substrate which have a scooped-out cavity. One to three egg sacs can also be found. Food remains can be found in the vicinity of these webs and consist of springtails, small crickets and ants.

Seasonality of Contributed Specimen Records:

Image(s) of Habitus:

Description: Carapace a rich orange-red, abdomen dark brown with no markings.Legs dark brown with a tint of orange.

Male Dimensions: A = 2.4 mm  A+B = 5 mm  C = 2 mm

Image of External Male Genitalia: Credit: Hancock, John

Description: Carapace a brown-orange, abdomen dark brown with no markings.Legs dark brown with a tint of orange.

Female Dimensions: A = 2.7 mm  A+B = 7.5 mm  C = 2.2 mm

Image of Epigynum: Credit: Hancock, John

Titanoeca nivalis Simon 1874 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2083603

Ciniflo nivalis Lessert 1910 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2083604

Titanoeca nivalis Simon 1914 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2083605

Titanoeca silvicola Chamberlin 1947 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2083608

Titanoeca silvicola Chamberlin & Ivie 1947 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2083607

Titanoeca nivalis Hubert 1966 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2083609

Titanoeca silvicola Leech 1972 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2083610

Titanoeca nivalis Thaler 1981 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2083611

Titanoeca nivalis Wunderlich 1993 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:9735926

Titanoeca nivalis Marusik 1995 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2083612

Titanoeca nivalis Mcheidze 1997 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2083613

Titanoeca nivalis Almquist 2006

Almquist, S. 2006. Swedish Araneae, part 2--families Dictynidae to Salticidae. Insect Syst. Ecol., Suppl. 63: 285-601.

Chamberlin, R. V. 1947. A summary of the known North American Amaurobiidae. Bull. Univ. Utah 38(8): 1-31.

Chamberlin, R. V. & W. Ivie. 1947. The spiders of Alaska. Bull. Univ. Utah 37(10): 1-103.

Hubert, M. 1966. Remarques sur quelques espèces d'araignées appartenant au genre Titanoeca Thorell, 1870. Bull. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. Paris 38: 238-246.

Leech, R. E. 1972. A revision of the Nearctic Amaurobiidae (Arachnida: Araneida). Mem. ent. Soc. Can. 84: 1-182.

Lehtinen, P. T. 1967. Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Ann. Zool. Fenn. 4: 199-468.

Lessert, R. de. 1910. Catalogue des invertebres de la Suisse. Fasc. 3, Araignées. Musée d'histoire naturelle de Genève, pp. 1-635.

Marusik, Y. M. 1995. A review of the spider genus Titanoeca from Siberia (Aranei: Titanoecidae). Beitr. Araneol. 4: 123-132.

Mcheidze, T. S. 1997. [Spiders of Georgia: Systematics, Ecology, Zoogeographic Review]. Tbilisi Univ., 390 pp. (in Georgian).

Simon, E. 1914. Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae; 1re partie. Paris, 6: 1-308.

Simon, E. 1874. Les arachnides de France. Paris, 1: 1-272.

Thaler, K. 1981. Bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde in Nordtirol (Österreich). Veröff. Mus. Ferdinandeum Innsbr. 61: 105-150.

Wunderlich, J. 1993. Beschreibung einer bisher unbekannten Spinnenart der Gattung Titanoeca Thorell aus Deutschland (Arachnida: Araneae: Titanoecidae). Ent. Z., Frankf. a. M. 103: 347-351.

^‡Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog

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