The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/17179

Parazygiella montana (C. L. Koch, 1834)

FAMILY: ARANEIDAE Simon, 1895
    Genus: Parazygiella Wunderlich, 2004

        Species: Parazygiella montana (C. L. Koch, 1834)

Common Names

Family Common Name:  orbweavers
Genus Common Name:  none
Species Common Name:  none

Distribution

Global Distribution: Palearctic

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)

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

Parazygiella montana C. L. Koch 1834
Zilla montana C. L. Koch 1834
Zygiella montana C. L. Koch 1834
Zilla montana C. L. Koch 1839
Epeira montana Westring 1851
Zilla alpina L. Koch 1870
Zilla montana Emerton 1884
Zilla montana Kulczynski 1885
Zilla montana Chyzer & Kulczynski 1891
Zilla montana McCook 1894
Zilla montana Bösenberg 1901
Zilla montana Emerton 1902
Zilla montana Emerton 1909
Araneus montanus Lessert 1910
Zygiella montana Simon 1929
Zilla montana Wiehle 1931
Zilla montana Drensky 1943
Zygiella montana Miller 1971
Zygiella montana Levi 1974
Zygiella montana Heimer & Nentwig 1991
Zygiella montana Roberts 1995
Zygiella montana Roberts 1998
Parazygiella montana Wunderlich 2004
Parazygiella montana Topçu et al. 2006

Taxonomic References

Bösenberg, W. 1901. Die Spinnen Deutschlands. I. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 14(1): 1-96.

Chyzer, C. & W. Kulczynski. 1891. Araneae Hungariae. Budapest, 1: 1-170.

Drensky, P. 1943. Die Spinnenfauna Bulgariens. VI. Unterordnung Arachnomorphae, II Gruppe Trionichia, Familie Euetrioidae. Bull. Inst. r. Hist. Nat. Sofia 16: 219-254.

Emerton, J. H. 1909. Supplement to the New England Spiders. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 14: 171-236.

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.

Heimer, S. & W. Nentwig. 1991. Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Verlag Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp.

Koch, C. L. 1839. Die Arachniden. Nürnberg, Funfter Band, pp. 125-158, Sechster Band, pp. 1-156, Siebenter Band, pp. 1-106.

Koch, C. L. 1834. Arachniden. In Herrich-Schäffer, G. A. W., Deutschlands Insekten. Heft 122-127.

Koch, L. 1870. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Arachnidenfauna Galiziens. Jahrb. k. k. Gelerh. Ges. Krakau 41: 1-56.

Kulczynski, W. 1885. Araneae in Camtschadalia a Dre B. Dybowski collectae. Pam. Akad. umiej. Krakow 11: 1-60.

Lessert, R. de. 1910. Catalogue des invertebres de la Suisse. Fasc. 3, Araignées. Musée d'histoire naturelle de Genève, pp. 1-635.

Levi, H. W. 1974. The orb-weaver genus Zygiella (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 146: 267-290.

McCook, H. C. 1894. American spiders and their spinningwork. Philadelphia, 3: 1-285.

Miller, F. 1971. Pavouci-Araneida. Klíc zvíreny CSSR 4: 51-306.

Roberts, M. J. 1998. Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp.

Roberts, M. J. 1995. Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp.

Simon, E. 1929. Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae; 3e partie. Paris, 6: 533-772.

Topçu, A., O. Seyyar, H. Demir & T. Türkes. 2006. A contribution to the knowledge of the Turkish spider fauna (Araneae). In C. Deltshev & P. Stoev (eds.), European Arachnology 2005. Acta zool. bulg. Suppl. 1: 335-338.

Westring, N. 1851. Förteckning öfver de till närvarande tid Kände, i Sverige förekommande Spindlarter, utgörande ett antal af 253, deraf 132 äro nya för svenska Faunan. Götenborg. Kongl. Vet. Handl. 2: 25-62.

Wiehle, H. 1931. Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea. Araneidae. In Die Tierwelt Deutschlands. Jena, 27: 1-136

Wunderlich, J. 2004. The fossil spiders (Araneae) of the families Tetragnathidae and Zygiellidae n. stat. in Baltic and Dominican amber, with notes on higher extant and fossil taxa. Beitr. Araneol. 3: 899-955.

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 Parazygiella Wunderlich, 2004‡‡

P. carpenteri (Archer, 1951) ...............USA
P. dispar (Kulczynski, 1885) ...............Holarctic

‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution