Nearctic States & Provinces: FL LA MA
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/16490
Metazygia wittfeldae (McCook, 1894)
FAMILY: ARANEIDAE Simon, 1895
Genus: Metazygia F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1904
Species: Metazygia wittfeldae (McCook, 1894)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
orbweavers
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: USA to Costa Rica
Nearctic States & Provinces:
FL LA MA
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:
(image not yet available)
Details About Females
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of Epigynum:
(image not yet available)
Synonyms and Chresonyms†
| Epeira wittfeldae McCook 1894 |
| Metazygia wittfeldae McCook 1894 |
| Metazygia wittfeldae F. O. P.-Cambridge 1904 |
| Araneus wittfeldae Petrunkevitch 1911 |
| Metazygia wittfeldae Levi 1977 |
| Metazygia wittfeldae Coddington 1990 |
| Metazygia wittfeldae Breene et al. 1993 |
| Metazygia wittfeldae Levi 1995 |
| Metazygia wittfeldae Scharff & Coddington 1997 |
| Metazygia wittfeldae Levi 2002 |
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, F. O. P.-. 1904. Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2: 465-560.
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.
Levi, H. W. 2002. Keys to the genera of araneid orbweavers (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Americas. J. Arachnol. 30: 527-562.
Levi, H. W. 1995. The Neotropical orb-weaver genus Metazygia (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 154: 63-151.
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.
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.
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.
†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 Metazygia F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1904‡‡
M. calix (Walckenaer, 1842) ...............USA
M. carolinalis (Archer, 1951) ...............USA
M. zilloides (Banks, 1898) ...............USA, West Indies to Honduras
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution