Nearctic States & Provinces: BC
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/13922
Metellina segmentata (Clerck, 1757)
FAMILY: TETRAGNATHIDAE Menge, 1866
Genus: Metellina Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941
Species: Metellina segmentata (Clerck, 1757)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
longjawed orbweavers
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: Palearctic (Canada, introduced)
Nearctic States & Provinces:
BC
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:
Credit: Sollfors, Stefan
Credit: Sollfors, Stefan
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†
| Araneus segmentatus Clerck 1757 |
| Metellina segmentata Clerck 1757 |
| Aranea reticulata Linnaeus 1758 |
| Metellina segmentata Clerck 1758 |
| Aranea angulata Schrank 1781 |
| Aranea senoculata Cyrillus 1787 |
| Aranea reticulata Olivier 1789 |
| Aranea segmentata Olivier 1789 |
| Aranea inclinata Walckenaer 1802 |
| Epeira inclinata Walckenaer 1805 |
| Epeira variegata Risso 1826 |
| Zilla reticulata C. L. Koch 1839 |
| Epeira inclinata Walckenaer 1842 |
| Miranda piniophila Bremi-Wolff 1849 |
| Epeira segmentata Westring 1851 |
| Meta segmentata Westring 1861 |
| Epeira inclinata Blackwall 1864 |
| Meta segmentata Menge 1866 |
| Zilla inclinata Sordelli 1868 |
| Meta segmentata Thorell 1870 |
| Meta segmentata Hansen 1882 |
| Meta segmentata Chyzer & Kulczynski 1891 |
| Meta segmentata Becker 1896 |
| Meta segmentata Bösenberg 1901 |
| Meta antrorum Simon 1907 |
| Meta reticulata Reimoser 1929 |
| Meta segmentata Simon 1929 |
| Meta reticulata Wiehle 1931 |
| Meta reticulata Drensky 1943 |
| Meta segmentata Chrysanthus 1953 |
| Meta segmentata Locket & Millidge 1953 |
| Meta segmentata Saito 1959 |
| Meta segmentata Zamaraev 1964 |
| Meta segmentata Wiehle 1967 |
| Meta segmentata Miller 1971 |
| Meta segmentata Loksa 1972 |
| Meta segmentata Locket, Millidge & Merrett 1974 |
| Meta segmentata Palmgren 1974 |
| Meta segmentata Punda 1975 |
| Metellina segmentata Levi 1980 |
| Meta segmentata Roberts 1985 |
| Metellina segmentata Yaginuma 1986 |
| Metellina segmentata Levy 1987 |
| Metellina segmentata Coddington 1990 |
| Metellina segmentata Heimer & Nentwig 1991 |
| Meta segmentata Roberts 1995 |
| Meta segmentata Mcheidze 1997 |
| Metellina segmentata Bellmann 1997 |
| Meta segmentata Roberts 1998 |
| Metellina segmentata Dondale et al. 2003 |
| Metellina segmentata Almquist 2005 |
| Metellina segmentata Trotta 2005 |
Taxonomic References†
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Becker, L. 1896. Les arachnides de Belgique. Ann. Mus. Roy. Hist. nat. Belg. 12: 1-3788.
Bellmann, H. 1997. Kosmos-Atlas Spinnentiere Europas. Frankh-Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart, 304 pp.
Blackwall, J. 1864. A history of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. London, Ray Society, 2: 175-384.
Bösenberg, W. 1901. Die Spinnen Deutschlands. I. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 14(1): 1-96.
Bremi-Wolff, J. J. 1849. In Menzel, A., Kurzer Abriss einer Naturgeschichte der Spinnen. Ein Festageschenk für die Jugend. Zürich, pp. 1-16.
Chrysanthus, P. 1953. Is Meta mengei Blackwall a variety of Meta segmentata (Clerck)? (Aranei-Argiopidae). Zool. Meded. Leiden 32: 155-163.
Chyzer, C. & W. Kulczynski. 1891. Araneae Hungariae. Budapest, 1: 1-170.
Clerck, C. 1757. Svenska spindlar, uti sina hufvud-slĺgter indelte samt under nĺgra och sextio särskildte arter beskrefne och med illuminerade figurer uplyste. Stockholmiae, 154 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.
Cyrillus, D. 1787. Entomologiae neapolitanae, specimen primum. Naples, 1-8.
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.
Drensky, P. 1943. Die Spinnenfauna Bulgariens. VI. Unterordnung Arachnomorphae, II Gruppe Trionichia, Familie Euetrioidae. Bull. Inst. r. Hist. Nat. Sofia 16: 219-254.
Hansen, H., J. 1882. Spindeldyr. In Schiödte, J. C. (ed.), Zoologia Danica. Kjöbenhavn, 3: 1-81, I-V.
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Koch, C. L. 1839. Die Arachniden. Nürnberg, Funfter Band, pp. 125-158, Sechster Band, pp. 1-156, Siebenter Band, pp. 1-106.
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
Levy, G. 1987. Spiders of the genera Araniella, Zygiella, Zilla and Mangora (Araneae, Araneidae) from Israel, with notes on Metellina species from Lebanon. Zoologica Scr. 16: 243-257.
Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae, 821 pp. (Araneae, pp. 619-624).
Locket, G. H. & A. F. Millidge. 1953. British spiders. Ray Society, London, 2: 1-449.
Locket, G. H., A. F. Millidge & P. Merrett. 1974. British Spiders, Volume III. Ray Society, London, 315 pp.
Loksa, I. 1972. Araneae II. Fauna Hungariae 109: 1-112.
Mcheidze, T. S. 1997. [Spiders of Georgia: Systematics, Ecology, Zoogeographic Review]. Tbilisi Univ., 390 pp. (in Georgian).
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†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 Metellina Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941‡‡
M. curtisi (McCook, 1894) ...............North America
M. mimetoides Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941 ...............North America
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution