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Clubiona moesta Banks, 1896

	FAMILY: CLUBIONIDAE Wagner, 1887     Genus: Clubiona Latreille, 1804         Species: Clubiona moesta Banks, 1896
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General Comments: Males of C. moesta can be distinguished from other species of Clubiona by the presence of two teeth on the tegulum and by the 90^o angle in the embolus near its base. The range of this species is Alaska to Nova Scotia, southward to Colorado and to Long Island, New York. Collections of C. moesta can be made by beating branches of deciduous trees. Specimens can also be found under loose bark, in wasp nests (as food for larvae), or in fall webworm nests. Material from Dondale & Redner (1982).

Family Common Name:  sac spiders
Genus Common Name:  leafcurling sac spiders
Species Common Name:  none

Global Distribution: USA, Canada, Alaska, China
Nearctic States & Provinces: (from the Nearctic Spider Database)   AB CO MT NE WY
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected: (from the Nearctic Spider Database)

Specimen Search Specimen list 8, 8

Feeding Guild:^† foliage runners
^†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: Under loose bark, branches of deciduous trees, hayfields, coniferous trees.
Life & Natural History: Mature males from May to September and mature females from May to October. Females with egg sacs can be found in June (Dondale & Redner, 1982).

Seasonality of Specimen Records: (from the Nearctic Spider Database - Requires Flash plug-in - refresh this page if not visible)

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Description: Carapace orange yellow to orange brown. Chelicerae orange brown to dull red each with five long erect setae on antrerior surface. Legs yellow. Abdomen dull red, dull yellow, or pale grey (Dondale & Redner, 1982).

Male Dimensions: A = 1.97 mm  A+B = 4.4 mm  C = 1.42 mm

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Description: Carapace orange yellow to orange brown. Chelicerae orange brown to dull red each with five long erect setae on antrerior surface. Legs yellow. Abdomen dull red, dull yellow, or pale grey (Dondale & Redner, 1982).

Female Dimensions: A = 2.12 mm  A+B = 4.6 mm  C = 1.53 mm

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Descriptions Source:
Dondale, C. D. & J. H. Redner. 1982. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 9. The sac spiders of Canada and Alaska, Araneae: Clubionidae and Anyphaenidae. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1724: 1-194.

Clubiona pusilla Emerton 1890 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2087877

Clubiona moesta Banks 1896 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2027378

Clubiona emertoni Petrunkevitch 1911 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2087879

Clubiona orinoma Chamberlin 1919 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2087880

Clubiona moesta Chickering 1939 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2087881

Clubiona emertoni Chamberlin & Ivie 1947 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2087882

Clubiona moesta Kaston 1948 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2087883

Clubiona moesta Edwards 1958 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2087884

Clubiona moesta Dondale & Redner 1982 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2087885

Clubiona moesta Song, Zhu & Chen 1999 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2087886

Clubiona moesta Hu 2001 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:9734085

Clubiona moesta Paquin & Dupérré 2003 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2009970

Banks, N. 1896. New North American spiders and mites. Trans. Amer. ent. Soc. 23: 57-77.

Chamberlin, R. V. 1919. New western spiders. Ann. ent. Soc. Amer. 12: 239-260.

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

Chickering, A. M. 1939. Anyphaenidae and Clubionidae of Michigan. Pap. Michig. Acad. Sci. 24: 49-84.

Dondale, C. D. & J. H. Redner. 1982. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 9. The sac spiders of Canada and Alaska, Araneae: Clubionidae and Anyphaenidae. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1724: 1-194.

Edwards, R. J. 1958. The spider subfamily Clubioninae of the United States, Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Clubionidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 118: 365-436.

Emerton, J. H. 1890. New England spiders of the families Drassidae, Agalenidae and Dysderidae. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 8: 166-206.

Hu, J. L. 2001. Spiders in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China. Henan Science and Technology Publishing House, 658 pp.

Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.

Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.

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.

Song, D. X., M. S. Zhu & J. Chen. 1999. The Spiders of China. Hebei Sci. Technol. Publ. House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp.

^‡Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog

Dondale, C. D. & J. H. Redner. 1982. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 9. The sac spiders of Canada and Alaska, Araneae: Clubionidae and Anyphaenidae. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1724: 1-194.

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