Nearctic States & Provinces: FL MO NC OK SC VA
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/14409
Acacesia hamata (Hentz, 1847)
FAMILY: ARANEIDAE Simon, 1895
Genus: Acacesia Simon, 1895
Species: Acacesia hamata (Hentz, 1847)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
orbweavers
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: USA to Argentina
Nearctic States & Provinces:
FL MO NC OK SC VA
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: Bartlett, Troy
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†
| Acacesia hamata Hentz 1847 |
| Epeira foliata Hentz 1847 |
| Epeira hamata Hentz 1847 |
| Epeira foliata Emerton 1884 |
| Epeira folifera Marx 1890 |
| Epeira foliata McCook 1894 |
| Acacesia foliata Simon 1895 |
| Acacesia foliata F. O. P.-Cambridge 1904 |
| Araneus hallucinor Petrunkevitch 1911 |
| Acacesia foliata Petrunkevitch 1930 |
| Acacesia lanceolata Badcock 1932 |
| Acacesia foliata Comstock 1940 |
| Acacesia hamata Bryant 1945 |
| Acacesia hamata Kaston 1948 |
| Acacesia folifera Camargo 1953 |
| Araneus nigrolineatus Caporiacco 1955 |
| Acacesia hamata Levi 1976 |
| Acacesia nigrolineata Levi 1991 |
| Acacesia hamata Breene et al. 1993 |
| Acacesia hamata Glueck 1994 |
| Acacesia hamata Scharff & Coddington 1997 |
| Acacesia hamata Levi 2002 |
Taxonomic References†
Badcock, A. D. 1932. Reports of an expedition to Paraguay and Brazil in 1926-1927 supported by the Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund and the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. Arachnida from the Paraguayan Chaco. Jour. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 38: 1-48.
Breene, R. G., D. A. Dean, M. Nyffeler & G. B. Edwards. 1993. Biology, Predation Ecology, and Significance of Spiders in Texas Cotton Ecosystems with a Key to Species. Texas Agriculture Experiment Station, College Station, 115 pp.
Bryant, E. B. 1945. The Argiopidae of Hispaniola. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 95: 357-422.
Camargo, H. F. de A. 1953. Sobre algumas aranhas que ocorrem no Brasil, com descriçãode um alótipo (Arachnida-Araneae). Papéis Dep. Zool. S Paulo 11: 301-340.
Cambridge, F. O. P.-. 1904. Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2: 465-560.
Caporiacco, L. di. 1955. Estudios sobre los aracnidos de Venezuela. 2a parte: Araneae. Acta biol. venez. 1: 265-448.
Comstock, J. H. 1940. The spider book, revised and edited by W. J. Gertsch. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, xi + 727 pp.
Emerton, J. H. 1884. New England spiders of the family Epeiridae. Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci. 6: 295-342.
Glueck, S. 1994. A taxonomic revision of the orb weaver genus Acacesia (Araneae: Araneidae). Psyche, Camb. 101: 59-84.
Hentz, N. M. 1847. Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston J. nat. Hist. 5: 443-478.
Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.
Levi, H. W. 2002. Keys to the genera of araneid orbweavers (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Americas. J. Arachnol. 30: 527-562.
Levi, H. W. 1991. The Neotropical and Mexican species of the orb-weaver genera Araneus, Dubiepeira, and Aculepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 152: 167-315.
Levi, H. W. 1976. The orb-weaver genera Verrucosa, Acanthepeira, Wagneriana, Acacesia, Wixia, Scoloderus and Alpaida north of Mexico. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 147: 351-391.
Marx, G. 1890. Catalogue of the described Araneae of temperate North America. Proc. U. S. nat. Mus. 12: 497-594.
McCook, H. C. 1894. American spiders and their spinningwork. Philadelphia, 3: 1-285.
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.
Scharff, N. & J. A. Coddington. 1997. A phylogenetic analysis of the orb-weaving spider family Araneidae (Arachnida, Araneae). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 120: 355-434.
Simon, E. 1895. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris, 1: 761-1084.
†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/ARANEIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Acacesia Simon, 1895‡‡
No Other Species
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution