Nearctic States & Provinces: NB NL NS ON QC GA NY NC SC TN
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/13891
Meta ovalis (Gertsch, 1933)
FAMILY: TETRAGNATHIDAE Menge, 1866
Genus: Meta C. L. Koch, 1836
Species: Meta ovalis (Gertsch, 1933)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
longjawed orbweavers
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: USA, Canada
Nearctic States & Provinces:
NB NL NS ON QC GA NY NC SC TN
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†
| Meta menardi Emerton 1884 |
| Meta menardi Emerton 1902 |
| Auchicybaeus ovalis Gertsch 1933 |
| Meta ovalis Gertsch 1933 |
| Meta menardi Kaston 1948 |
| Meta menardi Lehtinen 1967 |
| Meta menardi Levi 1980 |
| Meta americana Marusik & Koponen 1992 |
| Meta americana Hormiga, Eberhard & Coddington 1995 |
| Meta ovalis Dondale 1995 |
| Meta americana Griswold et al. 1998 |
| Meta ovalis Dondale et al. 2003 |
| Meta ovalis Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
Taxonomic References†
Dondale, C. D. 1995. A new synonym in the genus Meta (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). J. Arachnol. 23: 125-126.
Dondale, C. D., J. H. Redner, P. Paquin & H. W. Levi. 2003. The insects and arachnids of Canada. Part 23. The orb-weaving spiders of Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Uloboridae, Tetragnathidae, Araneidae, Theridiosomatidae). NRC Research Press, Ottawa, 371 pp.
Emerton, J. H. 1902. The common spiders of the United States. Boston, pp. 1-225.
Emerton, J. H. 1884. New England spiders of the family Epeiridae. Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci. 6: 295-342.
Gertsch, W. J. 1933. Diagnoses of new American spiders. Amer. Mus. Novit. 637: 1-14.
Griswold, C. E., J. A. Coddington, G. Hormiga & N. Scharff. 1998. Phylogeny of the orb-web building spiders (Araneae, Orbiculariae: Deinopoidea, Araneoidea). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 123: 1-99.
Hormiga, G., W. G. Eberhard & J. A. Coddington. 1995. Web-construction behaviour in Australian Phonognatha and the phylogeny of nephiline and tetragnathid spiders (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Aust. J. Zool. 43: 313-364.
Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.
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.
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
Marusik, Y. M. & S. Koponen. 1992. A review of Meta (Araneae, Tetragnathidae), with description of two new species. J. Arachnol. 20: 137-143.
Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.
†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 Meta C. L. Koch, 1836‡‡
M. dolloff Levi, 1980 ...............USA
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution