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Gnaphosa borea Kulczynski, 1908

	FAMILY: GNAPHOSIDAE Pocock, 1898     Genus: Gnaphosa Latreille, 1804         Species: Gnaphosa borea Kulczynski, 1908
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General Comments: The range of this species is Alaska to Labrador, south to northern New England, and further south to New Mexico (Platick & Dondale, 1992).

Family Common Name:  stealthy ground spiders
Genus Common Name:  none
Species Common Name:  none

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

Specimen Search Specimen list 60, 21

Feeding Guild:^† ground 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
Habitat (published): under stones, on moss, marshes, among willows (Platnick & Dondale, 1992).
Habitat (<30 randomly chosen specimens): Base camp. Spruce bog; Along creek; Birch point; Mixedwood forest, 20% standing trees; Deciduous-dominant forest, 50% standing trees; Mixedwood forest, 75% standing trees; Beach ridge; Dry muskeg; Deciduous-dominant forest, clearcut; Base camp. Pine forest; Deciduous-dominant , contiguous forest; Aspen, grass, willow; Pine forest; Ridge top; Wet muskeg; Base camp. Beach; Mixedwood forest, 10% standing trees; Bog;

Life & Natural History: Mature specimens have been collected from June to August. This species may be collected up to 3900 m or more in elevation.

Seasonality of Contributed Specimen Records:

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Description: (not yet recorded or unknown)

Male Dimensions: A = 3.25 mm  A+B = 6.47 mm  C = 2.49 mm

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Description: (not yet recorded or unknown)

Female Dimensions: A = 3.31 mm  A+B = 7.54 mm  C = 2.38 mm

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Descriptions Source:
Platnick, N. I. & C. D. Dondale. 1992. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 19. The ground spiders of Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1875: 1-297.

Gnaphosa borea Kulczynski 1908 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2031070

Gnaphosa mima Chamberlin 1933 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:246743

Gnaphosa subparvula Fox 1938 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:246744

Gnaphosa borea Holm 1970 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2093656

Gnaphosa mima Platnick & Shadab 1975 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2093657

Gnaphosa borea Ovtsharenko & Marusik 1988 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2093659

Gnaphosa borea Izmailova 1989 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2093660

Gnaphosa borea Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Song 1992 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2093662

Gnaphosa borea Platnick & Dondale 1992 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2093661

Gnaphosa borea Ovtsharenko & Marusik 1996 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2093663

Gnaphosa borea Marusik & Koponen 2001 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:9734102

Gnaphosa borea Paquin & Dupérré 2003 urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:2010447

Chamberlin, R. V. 1933. Four new spiders of the family Gnaphosidae. Amer. Mus. Novit. 631: 1-7.

Fox, I. 1938. Notes on North American spiders of the families Gnaphosidae, Anyphaenidae and Clubionidae. Iowa State Coll. Jour. Sci. 12: 227-243.

Holm, Å. 1970. Notes on spiders collected by the "Vega" Expedition 1878-1880. Entomologica scand. 1: 188-208.

Izmailova, M. V. 1989. [Fauna of Spiders of South Part of Eastern Siberia]. Irkutsk, State Univ. Publ., 184 pp.

Kulczynski, W. 1908. Araneae et Oribatidae. Expeditionum rossicarum in insulas Novo-Sibiricas annis 1885-1886 et 1900-1903 susceptarum. Zap. imp. Akad. naouk St. Petersb. (8) 18(7): 1-97.

Marusik, Y. M. & S. Koponen. 2001. Description of a new species and new records of some species of the genus Gnaphosa (Araneae: Ganphosidae) from east Palearctic. Acta arachn. Tokyo 50: 135-144.

Ovtsharenko, V. I. & Y. M. Marusik. 1996. Additional data on the spiders of the family Gnaphosidae (Aranei) of the north-east of Asia. In ntomological Studies in the North-East of the USSR. USSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Vladivostok, pp. 114-130 (

Ovtsharenko, V. I. & Y. M. Marusik. 1988. Spiders of the family Gnaphosidae (Aranei) of the north-east of the USSR (the Magadan Province). Ent. Obozr. 67: 204-217.

Ovtsharenko, V. I., N. I. Platnick & D. X. Song. 1992. A review of the North Asian ground spiders of the genus Gnaphosa (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 212: 1-88.

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

Platnick, N. I. & C. D. Dondale. 1992. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 19. The ground spiders of Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1875: 1-297.

Platnick, N. I. & M. U. Shadab. 1975. A revision of the spider genus Gnaphosa (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in America. Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 155: 1-66.

^‡Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog

Platnick, N. I. & C. D. Dondale. 1992. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 19. The ground spiders of Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1875: 1-297.

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Author of this page in progress: Shorthouse, David P. dshorthouse(at)eol.org
Text Last Modified: 2006-03-24T06:30:08Z