Nearctic States & Provinces: MB ON QC CO FL MI OK PA WI
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/14297
Tetragnatha pallescens F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1903
FAMILY: TETRAGNATHIDAE Menge, 1866
Genus: Tetragnatha Latreille, 1804
Species: Tetragnatha pallescens F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1903
Common Names
Family Common Name:
longjawed orbweavers
Genus Common Name:
longjawed orbweavers
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: North, Central America, West Indies
Nearctic States & Provinces:
MB ON QC CO FL MI OK PA WI
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: Slowik, Joey
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†
| Tetragnatha pallida Banks 1892 |
| Eugnatha pallida McCook 1894 |
| Tetragnatha bidens F. O. P.-Cambridge 1903 |
| Tetragnatha pallescens F. O. P.-Cambridge 1903 |
| Eugnatha pallidula Banks 1910 |
| Eugnatha pallescens Petrunkevitch 1911 |
| Tetragnatha pallidula Comstock 1912 |
| Tetragnatha pallescens Seeley 1928 |
| Tetragnatha pallescens Petrunkevitch 1930 |
| Tetragnatha pallescens Chickering 1957 |
| Tetragnatha pallescens Chickering 1959 |
| Tetragnatha pallescens Chickering 1962 |
| Tetragnatha pallescens Levi 1981 |
| Tetragnatha pallescens Okuma 1992 |
| Tetragnatha pallescens Dondale et al. 2003 |
| Tetragnatha pallescens Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
Taxonomic References†
Banks, N. 1910. Catalogue of Nearctic spiders. Bull. U. S. nat. Mus. 72: 1-80.
Banks, N. 1892. The spider fauna of the Upper Cayuga Lake Basin. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 1892: 11-81.
Cambridge, F. O. P.-. 1903. Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2: 425-464.
Chickering, A. M. 1962. The genus Tetragnatha (Araneae, Argiopidae) in Jamaica, W. I. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 127: 423-450.
Chickering, A. M. 1959. The genus Tetragnatha (Araneae, Argiopidae) in Michigan. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 119: 475-499.
Chickering, A. M. 1957. The genus Tetragnatha (Araneae, Argiopidae) in Panama. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 116: 301-354.
Comstock, J. H. 1912. The spider book; a manual for the study of the spiders and their near relatives, the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whipscorpions, harvestmen and other members of the class Arachnida, found in America north of Mexico, with analytical keys for their classification and popular accounts of their habits. Garden City, New York, pp. 1-721
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.
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.
McCook, H. C. 1894. American spiders and their spinningwork. Philadelphia, 3: 1-285.
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.
Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1930. The spiders of Porto Rico. Part two. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 30: 159-356.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1911. A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greeland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 29: 1-791.
Seeley, R. M. 1928. Revision of the spider genus Tetragnatha. New York St. Mus. Bull. 278: 99-150.
†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. nitens (Audouin, 1826) ...............Cosmotropical
T. obscura Gillespie, 2002 ...............Hawaii
T. obtusa C. L. Koch, 1837 ...............Palearctic
T. palikea Gillespie, 2003 ...............Hawaii
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