Nearctic States & Provinces: AB BC MB NL NT SK YT CO MO MT OR UT WA WY
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/14448
Aculepeira packardi (Thorell, 1875)
FAMILY: ARANEIDAE Simon, 1895
Genus: Aculepeira Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942
Species: Aculepeira packardi (Thorell, 1875)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
orbweavers
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: North America, Russia, China, Kazakhstan
Nearctic States & Provinces:
AB BC MB NL NT SK YT CO MO MT OR UT WA 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:
(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†
| Aculepeira packardi Thorell 1875 |
| Epeira packardii Thorell 1875 |
| Epeira aculeata Emerton 1877 |
| Epeira carbonaria Keyserling 1892 |
| Epeira aculeata Emerton 1894 |
| Epeira carbonaria McCook 1894 |
| Araneus septentrionalis Kulczynski 1908 |
| Araneus aculeatus Petrunkevitch 1911 |
| Araneus septentrionalis Schenkel 1930 |
| Aculepeira packardi Chamberlin & Ivie 1942 |
| Aculepeira verae Chamberlin & Ivie 1942 |
| Aculepeira verae Levi & Field 1954 |
| Aculepeira packardi Holm 1970 |
| Aculepeira packardi Levi 1977 |
| Aculepeira packardi Yin et al. 1990 |
| Aculepeira packardi Yin et al. 1997 |
| Aculepeira packardi Song, Zhu & Chen 1999 |
| Aculepeira packardi Hu 2001 |
| Aculepeira packardi Levi 2002 |
| Aculepeira packardi Blick & Nentwig 2003 |
| Aculepeira packardi Dondale et al. 2003 |
Taxonomic References†
Blick, T. & W. Nentwig. 2003. Taxonomische Notiz zu Aculepeira lapponica (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae). Arachnol. Mitt. 25 38-41.
Chamberlin, R. V. & W. Ivie. 1942. A hundred new species of American spiders. Bull. Univ. Utah 32(13): 1-117.
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. 1894. Canadian spiders. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 9: 400-429.
Emerton, J. H. 1877. Descriptions of two new spiders from Colorado. Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. 3: 528-529.
Holm, Å. 1970. Notes on spiders collected by the "Vega" Expedition 1878-1880. Entomologica scand. 1: 188-208.
Hu, J. L. 2001. Spiders in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China. Henan Science and Technology Publishing House, 658 pp.
Keyserling, E. 1892. Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Nürnberg, 4: 1-208.
Kulczynski, W. 1908. Araneae et Oribatidae. Expeditionum rossicarum in insulas Novo-Sibiricas annis 1885-1886 et 1900-1903 susceptarum. Zap. imp. Akad. naouk St. Petersb. (8) 18(7): 1-97.
Levi, H. W. 2002. Keys to the genera of araneid orbweavers (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Americas. J. Arachnol. 30: 527-562.
Levi, H. W. 1977. The orb-weaver genera Metepeira, Kaira and Aculepeira in America north of Mexico (Araneae, Araneidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 148: 185-238.
Levi, H. W. & H. M. Field. 1954. The spiders of Wisconsin. Am. Midl. Nat. 51: 440-467.
McCook, H. C. 1894. American spiders and their spinningwork. Philadelphia, 3: 1-285.
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.
Schenkel, E. 1930. Die Araneiden der Schwedischen Kamtchatka-Expedition 1920-1922. Ark. Zool. 21(A15): 1-33.
Song, D. X., M. S. Zhu & J. Chen. 1999. The Spiders of China. Hebei Sci. Technol. Publ. House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp.
Thorell, T. 1875. Notice of some spiders from Labrador. Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist. 17: 490-504.
Yin, C. M., J. F. Wang, L. P. Xie & X. J. Peng. 1990. New and newly recorded species of the spiders of family Araneidae from China (Arachnida, Araneae). In Spiders in China: One Hundred New and Newly Recorded Species of the Families Araneidae and Agelenidae. Hunan Normal Univ. Press, pp. 1-171.
Yin, C. M., X. J. Peng, L. S. Gong, Y. F. Chen & J. P. Kim. 1997. Six new species of the genus Pardosa from China (Araneae: Lycosidae). Korean Arachnol. 13(2): 19-31.
†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 Aculepeira Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942‡‡
A. aculifera (O. P.-Cambridge, 1889) ...............USA to Guatemala
A. armida (Audouin, 1826) ...............Palearctic
A. carbonaria (L. Koch, 1869) ...............Palearctic
A. carbonarioides (Keyserling, 1892) ...............USA, Canada, Alaska, Russia
A. ceropegia (Walckenaer, 1802) ...............Palearctic
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution