Nearctic States & Provinces: NS LA OK SC
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/15923
Eustala cepina (Walckenaer, 1842)
FAMILY: ARANEIDAE Simon, 1895
Genus: Eustala Simon, 1895
Species: Eustala cepina (Walckenaer, 1842)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
orbweavers
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: North America
Nearctic States & Provinces:
NS LA OK SC
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:
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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†
| Epeira cepina Walckenaer 1842 |
| Eustala cepina Walckenaer 1842 |
| Epeira parvula Keyserling 1864 |
| Epeira parvula Emerton 1884 |
| Epeira parvula Emerton 1902 |
| Eustala cepina Chamberlin & Ivie 1944 |
| Eustala cepina Levi 1977 |
| Eustala cepina Breene et al. 1993 |
| Eustala cepina Dondale et al. 2003 |
Taxonomic References†
Archer, A. F. 1951. Studies in the orbweaving spiders (Argiopidae). 1. Am. Mus. Novit. 1487: 1-52.
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.
Chamberlin, R. V. & W. Ivie. 1944. Spiders of the Georgia region of North America. Bull. Univ. Utah 35(9): 1-267.
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. 1902. The common spiders of the United States. Boston, pp. 1-225.
Emerton, J. H. 1884. New England spiders of the family Epeiridae. Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci. 6: 295-342.
Keyserling, E. 1864. Beschreibungen neuer und wenig bekannter Arten aus der Familie Orbitelae Latr. oder Epeiridae Sund. Sitz.-ber. nat. Ges. Isis Dresden 1863: 63-98, 119-154.
Levi, H. W. 1977. The American orb-weaver genera Cyclosa, Metazygia and Eustala north of Mexico (Araneae, Araneidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 148: 61-127.
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/ARANEIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Eustala Simon, 1895‡‡
E. anastera (Walckenaer, 1842) ...............North, Central America
E. bifida F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1904 ...............USA to Costa Rica
E. brevispina Gertsch & Davis, 1936 ...............USA, Mexico
E. californiensis (Keyserling, 1885) ...............USA, Mexico
E. cameronensis Gertsch & Davis, 1936 ...............USA
E. cazieri Levi, 1977 ...............USA, Bahama Is.
E. clavispina (O. P.-Cambridge, 1889) ...............USA to El Salvador
E. conchlea (McCook, 1888) ...............USA, Mexico
E. devia (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936) ...............USA to Panama, West Indies
E. eleuthera Levi, 1977 ...............USA, Bahama Is., Jamaica
E. emertoni (Banks, 1904) ...............USA, Mexico
E. rosae Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 ...............USA, Mexico
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution