Nearctic States & Provinces: ON
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/14386
Tetragnatha vermiformis Emerton, 1884
FAMILY: TETRAGNATHIDAE Menge, 1866
Genus: Tetragnatha Latreille, 1804
Species: Tetragnatha vermiformis Emerton, 1884
Common Names
Family Common Name:
longjawed orbweavers
Genus Common Name:
longjawed orbweavers
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: Canada to Panama, Southern Africa to Japan, Philippines
Nearctic States & Provinces:
ON
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:
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Details About Females
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of Epigynum:
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Synonyms and Chresonyms†
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Emerton 1884 |
| Eucta vermiformis Simon 1894 |
| Eugnatha vermiformis McCook 1894 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Emerton 1909 |
| Tetragnatha mackenziei Gravely 1921 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Seeley 1928 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Kaston 1948 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Chickering 1957 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Chickering 1959 |
| Tetragnatha shikokiana Yaginuma 1960 |
| Tetragnatha mackenziei Okuma 1968 |
| Tetragnatha shikokiana Song et al. 1976 |
| Tetragnatha shikokiana Paik & Namkung 1979 |
| Tetragnatha shikokiana Song 1980 |
| Tetragnatha coreana Seo & Paik 1981 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Levi 1981 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Okuma 1983 |
| Tetragnatha shikokiana Hu 1984 |
| Tetragnatha shikokiana Guo 1985 |
| Tetragnatha shikokiana Zhu et al. 1985 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Yaginuma 1986 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Song 1987 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Zhang 1987 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Okuma 1988 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Okuma & Dippenaar-Schoeman 1988 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Vungsilabutr 1988 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Chikuni 1989 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Hu & Wu 1989 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Chen & Gao 1990 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Feng 1990 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Chen & Zhang 1991 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Okuma et al. 1993 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Zhao 1993 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Kurenshchikov 1994 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Barrion & Litsinger 1995 |
| Tetragnatha coreana Kim, Kim & Lee 1999 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Kim, Kim & Lee 1999 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Song, Zhu & Chen 1999 |
| Tetragnatha coreana Hu 2001 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Hu 2001 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Song, Zhu & Chen 2001 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Namkung 2002 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Zhu et al. 2002 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Dondale et al. 2003 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Namkung 2003 |
| Tetragnatha vermiformis Zhu, Song & Zhang 2003 |
Taxonomic References†
Barrion, A. T. & J. A. Litsinger. 1995. Riceland Spiders of South and Southeast Asia. CAB International, Wallingford, UK, xix + 700 pp.
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. 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.
Chikuni, Y. 1989. Pictorial Encyclopedia of Spiders in Japan. Kaisei-sha Publ. Co., Tokyo, 310 pp.
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. 1909. Supplement to the New England Spiders. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 14: 171-236.
Emerton, J. H. 1884. New England spiders of the family Epeiridae. Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci. 6: 295-342.
Feng, Z. Q. 1990. Spiders of China in colour. Hunan Science and Technology Publishing House, 256 pp.
Gravely, F. H. 1921. Some Indian spiders of the subfamily Tetragnathinae. Rec. Indian Mus. Calcutta 22: 423-459.
Guo, J. F. (ed.). 1985. [Farm spiders from Shaanxi Province]. Shaanxi Science and Technology Press.
Hu, J. L. 2001. Spiders in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China. Henan Science and Technology Publishing House, 658 pp.
Hu, J. L. 1984. The Chinese spiders collected from the fields and the forests. Tianjin Press of Science and Techniques, 482 pp.
Hu, J. L. & W. G. Wu. 1989. Spiders from agricultural regions of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Shandong Univ. Publ. House, Jinan, 435 pp.
Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.
Kim, J. P., S. D. Kim & Y. B. Lee. 1999. A revisional study of the Korean spiders, family Tetragnathidae Menge, 1866 (Arachnida: Araneae). Korean Arachnol. 15(2): 41-100.
Kurenshchikov, D. K. 1994. The spider genus Tetragnatha Latreille, 1804, from the southern Far East of Russia (Aranei Tetragnathidae). Arthropoda Selecta 3(1-2): 57-64.
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.
Namkung, J. 2003. The Spiders of Korea, 2nd. ed. Kyo-Hak Publ. Co., Seoul, 648 pp.
Namkung, N. 2002. The spiders of Korea. Kyo-Hak Publishing Co., Seoul, 648 pp.
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. 1983. New synonymies and new records of some cosmopolitan species of the genus Tetragnatha (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Esakia 20: 69-80.
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.
Paik, W. H. & J. Namkung. 1979. [??]. ??, 101 pp.
Seeley, R. M. 1928. Revision of the spider genus Tetragnatha. New York St. Mus. Bull. 278: 99-150.
Seo, B. K. & K. Y. Paik. 1981. A new species of the genus Tetragnatha (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) from Korea. Korean J. Zool. 24: 87-90.
Simon, E. 1894. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris, 1: 489-760.
Song, D. X. 1987. Spiders from agricultural regions of China (Arachnida: Araneae). Agriculture Publishing House, Beijing, 376pp.
Song, D. X. 1980. [Farm Spiders]. Science Press, Beijing, 247 pp.
Song, D. X., et al. 1976. [The common species of Tetragnatha from the paddy fields of Zhejiang province]. Dongwuxue zazhi (Zool. Mag.) 1976(4): 38-39.
Song, D. X., M. S. Zhu & J. Chen. 2001. The Fauna of Hebei, China: Araneae. Hebei Science Technol. Publ. House, 510 pp.
Song, D. X., M. S. Zhu & J. Chen. 1999. The Spiders of China. Hebei Sci. Technol. Publ. House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp.
Vungsilabutr, W. 1988. The spider genus Tetragnatha in the paddy fields of Thailand (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Thai J. agric. Sci. 21: 63-74.
Yaginuma, T. 1986. Spiders of Japan in color (new ed.). Hoikusha Publ. Co., Osaka.
Yaginuma, T. 1960. Spiders of Japan in colour. Hoikusha, Osaka, 186 pp.
Zhang, W. S. (ed.). 1987. [Farm spiders from Hubei Province]. Hubei Sci. Tech. Press, 299 pp.
Zhao, J. Z. 1993. Spiders in the Cotton Fields in China. Wuhan Publishing House, Wuhan, China, 552 pp.
Zhu, M. S., D. X. Song & J. X. Zhang. 2003. Fauna Sinica: Invertebrata Vol. 35: Arachnida: Araneae: Tetragnathidae. Science Press, Beijing, vii + 418 pp.
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.
Zhu, M. S., et al. (eds.). 1985. [Crop field spiders of Shanxi Province]. Agriculture Planning Committee of Shanxi Province.
†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. 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. 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