Nearctic States & Provinces: ON AK DE LA OK SC
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/13644
Glenognatha foxi (McCook, 1894)
FAMILY: TETRAGNATHIDAE Menge, 1866
Genus: Glenognatha Simon, 1887
Species: Glenognatha foxi (McCook, 1894)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
longjawed orbweavers
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: Canada to Panama
Nearctic States & Provinces:
ON AK DE LA OK SC
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
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.
Recorded Habitats:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Life & Natural History:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Seasonality of Specimen Records:
Image(s) of Habitus:
(images not yet available)
Details About Males
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of External Male Genitalia:
(image not yet available)
Details About Females
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of Epigynum:
(image not yet available)
Synonyms and Chresonyms†
| Glenognatha foxi McCook 1894 |
| Theridium foxi McCook 1894 |
| Mysmena bulbifera Banks 1896 |
| Mysmena bulbifera Banks 1904 |
| Mysmena bulbifera Barrows 1919 |
| Diplocephalus crumbi Petrunkevitch 1925 |
| Glenognatha foxi Crosby & Bishop 1928 |
| Mimognatha foxi Banks 1929 |
| Mimognatha foxi Kaston 1945 |
| Mimognatha foxi Kaston 1948 |
| Glenognatha foxi Levi 1980 |
| Glenognatha foxi Coddington 1990 |
| Glenognatha foxi Breene et al. 1993 |
Taxonomic References†
Banks, N. 1929. Spiders from Panama. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 69: 53-96.
Banks, N. 1904. The Arachnida of Florida. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 56: 120-147.
Banks, N. 1896. New North American spiders and mites. Trans. Amer. ent. Soc. 23: 57-77.
Barrows, W. M. 1919. The taxonomic position of Mysmena bulbifera (Glenognatha bulbifera) Banks; with some observations on its habits. Ohio Jour. Sci. 19: 210-212.
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.
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.
Crosby, C. R. & S. C. Bishop. 1928. Araneae. In A list of the insects of New York. Mem. Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta. 101: 1034-1074.
Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.
Kaston, B. J. 1945. New Micryphantidae and Dictynidae with notes on other spiders. Am. Mus. Novit. 1292: 1-14.
Levi, H. W. 1980. The orb-weaver genus Mecynogea, the subfamily Metinae and the genera Pachygnatha, Glenognatha and Azilia of the subfamily Tetragnathinae north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 149: 1-7
McCook, H. C. 1894. American spiders and their spinningwork. Philadelphia, 3: 1-285.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1925. New Erigoninae from Tennessee. Jour. New York ent. Soc. 33: 170-176.
†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/TETRAGNATHIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Glenognatha Simon, 1887‡‡
G. emertoni Simon, 1887 ...............USA
G. heleios Hormiga, 1990 ...............USA
G. iviei Levi, 1980 ...............USA
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution