Nearctic States & Provinces: AR CA CO LA NC OK PA SC TX VA WY
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/20111
Oxyopes salticus Hentz, 1845
striped lynx spider
FAMILY: OXYOPIDAE Thorell, 1870
Genus: Oxyopes Latreille, 1804
Species: Oxyopes salticus Hentz, 1845
Common Names
Family Common Name:
lynx spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
striped lynx spider
Distribution
Global Distribution: USA to Brazil
Nearctic States & Provinces:
AR CA CO LA NC OK PA SC TX VA WY
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
Natural History, Phenology & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:‡
stalkers
‡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
Credit: larvalbug,
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†
| Oxyopes astutus Hentz 1845 |
| Oxyopes salticus Hentz 1845 |
| Sphasus luteus Blackwall 1862 |
| Oxyopes varians Taczanowski 1874 |
| Oxyopes gracilis Keyserling 1877 |
| Oxyopes luteus Keyserling 1891 |
| Oxyopes salticus Simon 1897 |
| Oxyopes gracilis F. O. P.-Cambridge 1902 |
| Oxyopes salticus Emerton 1902 |
| Oxyopes salticus Montgomery 1902 |
| Oxyopes gracilis Tullgren 1905 |
| Oxyopes salticus Comstock 1912 |
| Oxyopes salticus Chamberlin 1929 |
| Oxyopes salticus Mello-Leitao 1929 |
| Oxyopes salticus Petrunkevitch 1929 |
| Oxyopes salticus Muma 1943 |
| Oxyopes salticus Kaston 1948 |
| Oxyopes gracilis Brady 1964 |
| Oxyopes salticus Brady 1964 |
| Oxyopes salticus Brady 1975 |
| Oxyopes salticus Dondale & Redner 1990 |
| Oxyopes salticus Breene et al. 1993 |
| Oxyopes salticus Townsend, Felgenhauer & Grimshaw 2001 |
| Oxyopes salticus Deeleman-Reinhold 2005 |
Taxonomic References†
Blackwall, J. 1862. Descriptions of newly discovered spiders captured in Rio de Janeiro, by John Gray and the Rev. Hamlet Clark [part]. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (3) 10: 348-360.
Brady, A. R. 1975. The lynx spider genus Oxyopes in Mexico and Central America (Araneae: Oxyopidae). Psyche, Camb. 82: 189-243.
Brady, A. R. 1964. The lynx spiders of North America, north of Mexico (Araneae: Oxyopidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 131: 429-518.
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.-. 1902. Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2: 313-424.
Chamberlin, R. V. 1929. On three new spiders of the genus Oxyopes (Araneina). Ent. News 40: 17-20.
Comstock, J. H. 1912. The spider book; a manual for the study of the spiders and their near relatives, the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whipscorpions, harvestmen and other members of the class Arachnida, found in America north of Mexico, with analytical keys for their classification and popular accounts of their habits. Garden City, New York, pp. 1-721
Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. 2005. On the taxonomic relations of lynx spiders from the canopy of a tropical Asian rainforest (Araneae: Oxyopidae). In Logunov, D. V. & D. Penney (eds.), European Arachnology 2003 (Proceedings of the 21st European Colloquium of Arachnology, St.-Petersburg, 4-9 August 2003). Arthropoda Selecta, Special Issue 1: 41-52.
Dondale, C. D. & J. H. Redner. 1990. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 17. The wolf spiders, nurseryweb spiders, and lynx spiders of Canada and Alaska, Araneae: Lycosidae, Pisauridae, and Oxyopidae. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1856: 1-383.
Emerton, J. H. 1902. The common spiders of the United States. Boston, pp. 1-225.
Hentz, N. M. 1845. Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston J. nat. Hist. 5: 189-202.
Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.
Keyserling, E. 1891. Die Spinnen Amerikas. Brasilianische Spinnen. Nürnberg, 3: 1-278.
Keyserling, E. 1877. Ueber amerikanische Spinnenarten der Unterordnung Citigradae. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 26: 609-708.
Mello-Leitao, C. F. de. 1929. Oxyopideos do Brasil. Rev. Mus. Paulista 16: 489-536.
Montgomery, T. H. 1902. Descriptions of Lycosidae and Oxyopidae of Philadelphia and its vicinity. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 54: 534-592.
Muma, M. H. 1943. Common spiders of Maryland. Natural History Society of Maryland, Baltimore, 179 pp.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1929. The spiders of Porto Rico. Part one. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 30: 1-158.
Simon, E. 1897. On the spiders of the island of St Vincent. III. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1897: 860-890.
Taczanowski, L. 1874. Les aranéides de la Guyane française. Horae Soc. ent. Ross. 10: 56-115.
Townsend, V. R., Jr., B. E. Felgenhauer & J. F. Grimshaw. 2001. Comparative morphology of the Australian lynx spiders of the genus Oxyopes (Araneae: Oxyopidae). Aust. J. Zool. 49: 561-576.
Tullgren, A. 1905. Aranedia from the Swedish expedition through the Gran Chaco and the Cordilleras. Ark. Zool. 2(19): 1-81.
†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/OXYOPIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Oxyopes Latreille, 1804‡‡
O. acleistus Chamberlin, 1929 ...............USA, Mexico
O. aglossus Chamberlin, 1929 ...............USA
O. apollo Brady, 1964 ...............USA, Mexico
O. artemis Brady, 1969 ...............USA
O. cougar Brady, 1969 ...............USA
O. felinus Brady, 1964 ...............USA, Mexico
O. heterophthalmus (Latreille, 1804) ...............Palearctic
O. lineatus Latreille, 1806 ...............Palearctic
O. lynx Brady, 1964 ...............USA
O. occidens Brady, 1964 ...............USA, Mexico
O. panther Brady, 1975 ...............USA, Mexico
O. pardus Brady, 1964 ...............USA
O. ramosus (Martini & Goeze, 1778) ...............Palearctic
O. scalaris Hentz, 1845 ...............North America
O. tridens Brady, 1964 ...............USA, Mexico
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution