Nearctic States & Provinces: CO LA MO OK SC VA
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/16515
Metepeira labyrinthea (Hentz, 1847)
labyrinth orbweaver
FAMILY: ARANEIDAE Simon, 1895
Genus: Metepeira F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1903
Species: Metepeira labyrinthea (Hentz, 1847)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
orbweavers
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
labyrinth orbweaver
Distribution
Global Distribution: North America
Nearctic States & Provinces:
CO LA MO 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†
| Epeira labyrinthea Hentz 1847 |
| Metepeira labyrinthea Hentz 1847 |
| Epeira crucifera Keyserling 1864 |
| Epeira solitudinis Holmberg 1881 |
| Epeira labyrinthea Emerton 1884 |
| Epeira labyrinthea Keyserling 1893 |
| Epeira labyrinthea McCook 1894 |
| Epeira labyrinthea Emerton 1902 |
| Metepeira labyrinthea F. O. P.-Cambridge 1903 |
| Araneus labyrintheus Simon 1904 |
| Araneus cruciferus Petrunkevitch 1911 |
| Araneus solitudinis Petrunkevitch 1911 |
| Metepeira labyrinthea Chamberlin 1924 |
| Metepeira labyrinthea Petrunkevitch 1930 |
| Metepeira labyrinthea Franganillo 1936 |
| Metepeira labyrinthea Comstock 1940 |
| Aranea keyserlingi Roewer 1942 |
| Metepeira labyrinthea Chamberlin & Ivie 1942 |
| Metepeira labyrinthea Muma 1943 |
| Metepeira labyrinthea Kaston 1948 |
| Araneus labyrintheus Bücherl 1959 |
| Metepeira labyrinthea Levi 1977 |
| Metepeira labyrinthea Coddington 1990 |
| Metepeira labyrinthea Piel 2001 |
| Metepeira labyrinthea Levi 2002 |
| Metepeira labyrinthea Dondale et al. 2003 |
Taxonomic References†
Bücherl, W. 1959. Fauna aracnológica e alguns aspectos ecológicos da ilha de Trindade. Mems Inst. Butantan 29: 277-313.
Cambridge, F. O. P.-. 1903. Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2: 425-464.
Chamberlin, R. V. 1924. The spider fauna of the shores and islands of the Gulf of California. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 12: 561-694.
Chamberlin, R. V. & W. Ivie. 1942. A hundred new species of American spiders. Bull. Univ. Utah 32(13): 1-117.
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.
Comstock, J. H. 1940. The spider book, revised and edited by W. J. Gertsch. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, xi + 727 pp.
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.
Franganillo B., P. 1936. Los ar cnidos de Cuba hasta 1936. Cultural, La Habana, 183 pp.
Hentz, N. M. 1847. Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston J. nat. Hist. 5: 443-478.
Holmberg, E. L. 1881. Arácnidos. In Informe oficial de la Comisión científica agregada al Estado Mayor General de la Expedición al Rio Negro (Patagonia) ... bajo los órdenes del General D. Julio A. Roca. Entrega I. Buenos Aires, Zoología: 117-168.
Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.
Keyserling, E. 1893. Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Nürnberg, 4: 209-377.
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. 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.
McCook, H. C. 1894. American spiders and their spinningwork. Philadelphia, 3: 1-285.
Muma, M. H. 1943. Common spiders of Maryland. Natural History Society of Maryland, Baltimore, 179 pp.
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.
Piel, W. H. 2001. The systematics of Neotropical orb-weaving spiders in the genus Metepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 157: 1-92.
Roewer, C. F. 1942. Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940. Bremen, 1: 1-1040.
Simon, E. 1904. Etude sur les arachnides du Chili recueillis en 1900, 1901 et 1902, par MM. C. Porter, Dr Delfin, Barcey Wilson et Edwards. Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 48: 83-114.
†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 Metepeira F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1903‡‡
M. arizonica Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 ...............USA, Mexico
M. comanche Levi, 1977 ...............USA, Mexico
M. crassipes Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 ...............USA, Mexico
M. datona Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 ...............USA, Greater Antilles
M. foxi Gertsch & Ivie, 1936 ...............USA, Canada
M. gosoga Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 ...............USA, Mexico
M. grandiosa Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941 ...............North America
M. minima Gertsch, 1936 ...............USA to Honduras
M. palustris Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 ...............USA, Canada
M. pimungan Piel, 2001 ...............USA
M. spinipes F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1903 ...............USA, Mexico
M. ventura Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 ...............USA, Mexico
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution