Nearctic States & Provinces: CA TX UT
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/14279
Tetragnatha nitens (Audouin, 1826)
FAMILY: TETRAGNATHIDAE Menge, 1866
Genus: Tetragnatha Latreille, 1804
Species: Tetragnatha nitens (Audouin, 1826)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
longjawed orbweavers
Genus Common Name:
longjawed orbweavers
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: Cosmotropical
Nearctic States & Provinces:
CA TX UT
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: Lindsey, Irene
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†
| Eugnatha nitens Audouin 1826 |
| Eugnatha pelusia Audouin 1826 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Andouin 1826 |
| Tetragnatha gracilis Lucas 1838 |
| Tetragnatha deinognatha Walckenaer 1842 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Walckenaer 1842 |
| Tetragnatha pelusia Walckenaer 1842 |
| Deinagnatha dandridgei White 1846 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Keyserling 1865 |
| Tetragnatha ferox L. Koch 1872 |
| Tetragnatha gulosa L. Koch 1872 |
| Tetragnatha molesta O. P.-Cambridge 1872 |
| Tetragnatha ejuncida Simon 1874 |
| Tetragnatha andina Taczanowski 1878 |
| Tetragnatha typica Urquhart 1890 |
| Tetragnatha antillana Simon 1897 |
| Tetragnatha vicina Simon 1897 |
| Tetragnatha peninsulana Banks 1898 |
| Tetragnatha galapagoensis Banks 1902 |
| Tetragnatha antillana F. O. P.-Cambridge 1903 |
| Tetragnatha ferox crossae Hogg 1911 |
| Tetragnatha aptans Chamberlin 1920 |
| Tetragnatha eremita Chamberlin 1924 |
| Tetragnatha antillana Seeley 1928 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Simon 1929 |
| Cyrtognatha producta Franganillo 1930 |
| Tetragnatha antillana Petrunkevitch 1930 |
| Tetragnatha seminola Gertsch 1936 |
| Tetragnatha steckleri Gertsch & Ivie 1936 |
| Tetragnatha elmora Chamberlin & Ivie 1942 |
| Tetragnatha festina Bryant 1945 |
| Tetragnatha haitiensis Bryant 1945 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Parrott 1946 |
| Tetragnatha antillana Chickering 1957 |
| Tetragnatha antillana Bücherl 1959 |
| Tetragnatha antillana Chickering 1962 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Wiehle 1962 |
| Tetragnatha nitens kullmanni Wiehle 1962 |
| Tetragnatha hotingchiehi Schenkel 1963 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Okuma 1968 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Song et al. 1976 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Yin 1976 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Song 1980 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Levi 1981 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Okuma 1983 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Hu 1984 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Guo 1985 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Yaginuma 1986 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Okuma 1987 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Song 1987 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Zhang 1987 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Davies 1988 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Okuma 1988 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Okuma & Dippenaar-Schoeman 1988 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Vungsilabutr 1988 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Chen & Gao 1990 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Feng 1990 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Chen & Zhang 1991 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Okuma 1992 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Wunderlich 1992 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Okuma et al. 1993 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Zhao 1993 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Barrion & Litsinger 1995 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Song, Zhu & Chen 1999 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Song, Zhu & Chen 2001 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Namkung 2002 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Yoo & Kim 2002 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Zhu et al. 2002 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Namkung 2003 |
| Tetragnatha nitens Zhu, Song & Zhang 2003 |
Taxonomic References†
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Banks, N. 1902. Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos Expedition; 1898-1899. VII. Entomological Results (6). Arachnida. With field notes by Robert E. Snodgrass. Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci. 4: 49-86.
Banks, N. 1898. Arachnida from Baja California and other parts of Mexico. Proc. Californ. Acad. Sci. (3) 1: 205-308.
Barrion, A. T. & J. A. Litsinger. 1995. Riceland Spiders of South and Southeast Asia. CAB International, Wallingford, UK, xix + 700 pp.
Bryant, E. B. 1945. The Argiopidae of Hispaniola. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 95: 357-422.
Bücherl, W. 1959. Fauna aracnológica e alguns aspectos ecológicos da ilha de Trindade. Mems Inst. Butantan 29: 277-313.
Cambridge, F. O. P.-. 1903. Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2: 425-464.
Cambridge, O. P.-. 1872. General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1871: 212-354.
Chamberlin, R. V. 1924. The spider fauna of the shores and islands of the Gulf of California. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 12: 561-694.
Chamberlin, R. V. 1920. South American Arachnida, chiefly from the Guano Islands of Peru. Bull. Brooklyn Inst. Arts. Sci. 3: 35-44.
Chamberlin, R. V. & W. Ivie. 1942. A hundred new species of American spiders. Bull. Univ. Utah 32(13): 1-117.
Chen, X. E. & J. C. Gao. 1990. The Sichuan farmland spiders in China. Sichuan Sci. Tech. Publ. House, Chengdu, 226 pp.
Chen, Z. F. & Z. H. Zhang. 1991. Fauna of Zhejiang: Araneida. Zhejiang Science and Technology Publishing House, 356 pp.
Chickering, A. M. 1962. The genus Tetragnatha (Araneae, Argiopidae) in Jamaica, W. I. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 127: 423-450.
Chickering, A. M. 1957. The genus Tetragnatha (Araneae, Argiopidae) in Jamaica, B.W.I., and other neighboring islands. Breviora 68: 1-15.
Chickering, A. M. 1957. The genus Tetragnatha (Araneae, Argiopidae) in Panama. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 116: 301-354.
Davies, V. T. 1988. An illustrated guide to the genera of orb-weaving spiders in Australia. Mem. Qd Mus. 25: 273-332.
Feng, Z. Q. 1990. Spiders of China in colour. Hunan Science and Technology Publishing House, 256 pp.
Franganillo B., P. 1930. Arácnidos de Cuba: Mas arácnidos nuevos de la Isla de Cuba. Mem. Inst. nac. Invest. cien. 1: 47-99 [reprinted separately, pp. 1-55; only reprint seen and cited].
Gertsch, W. J. 1936. Further diagnoses of new American spiders. Amer. Mus. Novit. 852: 1-27.
Gertsch, W. J. & W. Ivie. 1936. Descriptions of new American spiders. Amer. Mus. Novit. 858: 1-25.
Guo, J. F. (ed.). 1985. [Farm spiders from Shaanxi Province]. Shaanxi Science and Technology Press.
Hogg, H. R. 1911. On some New Zealand spiders. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1911: 297-313.
Hu, J. L. 1984. The Chinese spiders collected from the fields and the forests. Tianjin Press of Science and Techniques, 482 pp.
Keyserling, E. 1865. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Orbitelae Latr. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 15: 799-856.
Koch, L. 1872. Die Arachniden Australiens. Nürnberg, 1: 105-368.
Levi, H. W. 1981. The American orb-weaver genera Dolichognatha and Tetragnatha north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae, Tetragnathinae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 149: 271-318.
Lucas, H. 1838. Arachnides, Myriapodes et Thysanoures. In Barker-Webb, P. & S. Berthelot (eds.), Histoire naturelle des îles Canaries. Paris, 2(2): 19-52, pls. 6-7.
Namkung, J. 2003. The Spiders of Korea, 2nd. ed. Kyo-Hak Publ. Co., Seoul, 648 pp.
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Okuma, C. 1992. Notes on the Neotropical and Mexican species of Tetragnatha (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) with descriptions of three new species. J. Fac. Agr., Kyushu Univ. 36: 219-243.
Okuma, C. 1988. A revision of the genus Tetragnatha Latreille (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) of Asia, Part II. J. Fac. Agr. Kyushu Univ. 32: 183-213.
Okuma, C. 1987. A revision of the Australasian species of the genus Tetragnatha (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Esakia 25: 37-96.
Okuma, C. 1983. New synonymies and new records of some cosmopolitan species of the genus Tetragnatha (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Esakia 20: 69-80.
Okuma, C. 1968. Two spiders new to fauna of Japan. Acta arachn. Tokyo 21: 40-42.
Okuma, C. 1968. Preliminary survey on the spider-fauna of the paddy fields in Thailand. Mushi 42: 89-117.
Okuma, C. & A. S. Dippenaar-Schoeman. 1988. Tetragnatha (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) in the collection of the Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria with a description of a new species. Phytophylactica 20: 219-232.
Okuma, C., N. Q. Kamal, Y. Hirashima, M. Z. Alam & K. Ogata. 1993. Illustrated Monograph of the Rice Field Spiders of Bangladesh. Institute of Postgraduate Studies in Agriculture (Salna, Gazipur, Bangladesh)-Japan International Cooperation Agency Project Publication 1, 93 pp.
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Song, D. X., M. S. Zhu & J. Chen. 2001. The Fauna of Hebei, China: Araneae. Hebei Science Technol. Publ. House, 510 pp.
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Zhu, M. S., D. X. Song, J. X. Zhang & D. X. Gu. 2002. The Tetragnatha spiders familiar to paddy field from China. Natural Enemies of Insects 24: 77-95.
†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 Tetragnatha Latreille, 1804‡‡
T. acuta Gillespie, 1992 ...............Hawaii
T. albida Gillespie, 1994 ...............Hawaii
T. anuenue Gillespie, 2002 ...............Hawaii
T. branda Levi, 1981 ...............USA
T. brevignatha Gillespie, 1992 ...............Hawaii
T. caudata Emerton, 1884 ...............North, Central America, Cuba, Jamaica
T. cuneiventris Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
T. dearmata Thorell, 1873 ...............Holarctic
T. earmra Levi, 1981 ...............USA
T. elongata Walckenaer, 1842 ...............North, Central America, Cuba, Jamaica
T. elongata debilis Thorell, 1877 ...............USA
T. elongata principalis Thorell, 1877 ...............USA
T. elongata undulata Thorell, 1877 ...............USA
T. eurychasma Gillespie, 1992 ...............Hawaii
T. extensa (Linnaeus, 1758) ...............Holarctic, Madeira
T. filiciphilia Gillespie, 1992 ...............Hawaii
T. guatemalensis O. P.-Cambridge, 1889 ...............North, Central America, Cuba, Jamaica
T. hawaiensis Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
T. kamakou Gillespie, 1992 ...............Hawaii
T. kauaiensis Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
T. kea Gillespie, 1994 ...............Hawaii
T. kikokiko Gillespie, 2002 ...............Hawaii
T. kukuhaa Gillespie, 2002 ...............Hawaii
T. kukuiki Gillespie, 2002 ...............Hawaii
T. laboriosa Hentz, 1850 ...............North, Central America
T. lena Gillespie, 2003 ...............Hawaii
T. limu Gillespie, 2003 ...............Hawaii
T. macracantha Gillespie, 1992 ...............Hawaii
T. maka Gillespie, 1994 ...............Hawaii
T. mohihi Gillespie, 1992 ...............Hawaii
T. montana Simon, 1874 ...............Palearctic
T. netrix Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
T. nigrita Lendl, 1886 ...............Palearctic
T. obscura Gillespie, 2002 ...............Hawaii
T. obtusa C. L. Koch, 1837 ...............Palearctic
T. palikea Gillespie, 2003 ...............Hawaii
T. pallescens F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1903 ...............North, Central America, West Indies
T. paludicola Gillespie, 1992 ...............Hawaii
T. panopea L. Koch, 1872 ...............Macronesia, Polynesia, Hawaii
T. perkinsi Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
T. perreirai Gillespie, 1992 ...............Hawaii
T. pilosa Gillespie, 1992 ...............Hawaii
T. pinicola L. Koch, 1870 ...............Palearctic
T. polychromata Gillespie, 1992 ...............Hawaii
T. quasimodo Gillespie, 1992 ...............Hawaii
T. restricta Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
T. shoshone Levi, 1981 ...............USA, Canada, Europe
T. sobrina Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
T. stelarobusta Gillespie, 1992 ...............Hawaii
T. straminea Emerton, 1884 ...............USA, Canada, Cuba
T. tantalus Gillespie, 1992 ...............Hawaii
T. trituberculata Gillespie, 1992 ...............Hawaii
T. uluhe Gillespie, 2003 ...............Hawaii
T. uncifera Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
T. vermiformis Emerton, 1884 ...............Canada to Panama, Southern Africa to Japan, Philippines
T. versicolor Walckenaer, 1842 ...............North, Central America, Cuba
T. viridis Walckenaer, 1842 ...............USA, Canada
T. waikamoi Gillespie, 1992 ...............Hawaii
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution