Nearctic States & Provinces: AB BC MB NB NL NT NS NU ON QC SK YT AK AZ CA CO CT FL MI MO MT NH NM NC ND OK SC SD TX UT VA WA WI WY
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/14388
Tetragnatha versicolor Walckenaer, 1842
FAMILY: TETRAGNATHIDAE Menge, 1866
Genus: Tetragnatha Latreille, 1804
Species: Tetragnatha versicolor Walckenaer, 1842
Common Names
Family Common Name:
longjawed orbweavers
Genus Common Name:
longjawed orbweavers
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: North, Central America, Cuba
Nearctic States & Provinces:
AB BC MB NB NL NT NS NU ON QC SK YT AK AZ CA CO CT FL MI MO MT NH NM NC ND OK SC SD TX UT VA WA WI WY
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:
Credit: Slowik, Joey
Details About Females
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of Epigynum:
Credit: Slowik, Joey
Synonyms and Chresonyms†
| Tetragnatha casula Walckenaer 1842 |
| Tetragnatha trapezoides Walckenaer 1842 |
| Tetragnatha versicolor Walckenaer 1842 |
| Tetragnatha convexa Banks 1898 |
| Tetragnatha dentigera F. O. P.-Cambridge 1903 |
| Tetragnatha limnocharis Seeley 1928 |
| Tetragnatha munda Chamberlin & Gertsch 1929 |
| Tetragnatha marianna Archer 1940 |
| Tetragnatha versicolor Chamberlin & Ivie 1944 |
| Tetragnatha versicolor Chickering 1957 |
| Tetragnatha versicolor Chickering 1959 |
| Tetragnatha versicolor Levi 1981 |
| Tetragnatha versicolor Hormiga, Eberhard & Coddington 1995 |
| Tetragnatha versicolor Griswold et al. 1998 |
| Tetragnatha versicolor Dondale et al. 2003 |
| Tetragnatha versicolor Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
Taxonomic References†
Archer, A. F. 1940. The Argiopidae or orb-weaving spiders of Alabama. Mus. Pap. geol. Surv. Ala 14: 1-77.
Banks, N. 1898. Arachnida from Baja California and other parts of Mexico. Proc. Californ. Acad. Sci. (3) 1: 205-308.
Cambridge, F. O. P.-. 1903. Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2: 425-464.
Chamberlin, R. V. & W. Ivie. 1944. Spiders of the Georgia region of North America. Bull. Univ. Utah 35(9): 1-267.
Chamberlin, R. V. & W. J. Gertsch. 1929. New spiders from Utah and California. Jour. Ent. Zool. Claremont 21: 101-112.
Chickering, A. M. 1959. The genus Tetragnatha (Araneae, Argiopidae) in Michigan. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 119: 475-499.
Chickering, A. M. 1957. Notes on certain species of Tetragnatha (Araneae, Argiopidae) in Central America and Mexico. Breviora 67: 1-4.
Chickering, A. M. 1957. The genus Tetragnatha (Araneae, Argiopidae) in Jamaica, B.W.I., and other neighboring islands. Breviora 68: 1-15.
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.
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.
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.
Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.
Seeley, R. M. 1928. Revision of the spider genus Tetragnatha. New York St. Mus. Bull. 278: 99-150.
Walckenaer, C. A. 1842. Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Paris, 2: 1-549.
†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. vermiformis Emerton, 1884 ...............Canada to Panama, Southern Africa to Japan, Philippines
T. viridis Walckenaer, 1842 ...............USA, Canada
T. waikamoi Gillespie, 1992 ...............Hawaii
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution