Nearctic States & Provinces: AR DE IN NC OH SC TX
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/16109
Gea heptagon (Hentz, 1850)
FAMILY: ARANEIDAE Simon, 1895
Genus: Gea C. L. Koch, 1843
Species: Gea heptagon (Hentz, 1850)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
orbweavers
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: USA to Agentina, South Pacific Is., Australia
Nearctic States & Provinces:
AR DE IN NC OH SC TX
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: Schimming, Lynette
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†
| Epeira heptagon Hentz 1850 |
| Gea heptagon Hentz 1850 |
| Ebaea praecincta L. Koch 1872 |
| Gea heptagon Keyserling 1892 |
| Gea heptagon McCook 1894 |
| Gea praecincta Simon 1895 |
| Gea praedicta O. P.-Cambridge 1898 |
| Gea heptagon Tullgren 1901 |
| Gea heptagon Petrunkevitch 1930 |
| Gea heptagon nigra Petrunkevitch 1930 |
| Gea ergaster Chamberlin & Ivie 1944 |
| Gea heptagon Levi & Field 1954 |
| Gea heptagon Levi 1968 |
| Gea heptagon Levi 1983 |
| Gea heptagon Coddington 1990 |
| Gea heptagon Breene et al. 1993 |
| Gea heptagon Levi 2002 |
| Gea heptagon Dondale et al. 2003 |
| Gea hetapagon Levi 2004 |
Taxonomic References†
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.
Cambridge, O. P.-. 1898. Arachnida. Araneida. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 1: 233-288.
Chamberlin, R. V. & W. Ivie. 1944. Spiders of the Georgia region of North America. Bull. Univ. Utah 35(9): 1-267.
Coddington, J. A. 1990. Ontogeny and homology in the male palpus of orb-weaving spiders and their relatives, with comments on phylogeny (Araneoclada: Araneoidea, Deinopoidea). Smithson. Contrib. Zool. 496: 1-52.
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.
Hentz, N. M. 1850. Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston J. nat. Hist. 6: 18-35, 271-295.
Keyserling, E. 1892. Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Nürnberg, 4: 1-208.
Koch, L. 1872. Die Arachniden Australiens. Nürnberg, 1: 105-368.
Levi, H. W. 2004. Comments and new records for the American genera Gea and Argiope with the description of new species (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 158: 47-65.
Levi, H. W. 2002. Keys to the genera of araneid orbweavers (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Americas. J. Arachnol. 30: 527-562.
Levi, H. W. 1983. The orb-weaver genera Argiope, Gea, and Neogea from the western Pacific region (Araneae: Araneidae, Argiopinae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 150: 247-338.
Levi, H. W. 1968. The spider genera Gea and Argiope in America (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 136: 319-352.
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. 1930. The spiders of Porto Rico. Part two. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 30: 159-356.
Simon, E. 1895. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris, 1: 761-1084.
Tullgren, A. 1901. On the spiders collected in Florida by Dr Einer Lönnberg 1892-93. Bih. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl. 27(4;1): 1-29.
†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 Gea C. L. Koch, 1843‡‡
No Other Species
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution