The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/21108

Novalena intermedia (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1930)

FAMILY: AGELENIDAE C. L. Koch, 1837
    Genus: Novalena Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942

        Species: Novalena intermedia (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1930)

Common Names

Family Common Name:  funnel weavers
Genus Common Name:  none
Species Common Name:  none

Distribution

Global Distribution: USA
Nearctic States & Provinces:   BC CA WA
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected: 


Natural History, Phenology & Image(s)

Feeding Guild:  sheet web builders
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:

   seasonality
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

Agelena intermedia Chamberlin & Gertsch 1930
Novalena intermedia Chamberlin & Gertsch 1930
Hololena intermedia Exline 1938
Novalena intermedia Chamberlin & Ivie 1941
Novalena intermedia Chamberlin & Ivie 1942
Novalena intermedia Lehtinen 1967
Novalena intermedia Roth & Brame 1972
Novalena intermedia Roth 1982
Novalena intermedia Roth 1985
Novalena intermedia Roth 1994

Taxonomic References

Chamberlin, R. V. & W. Ivie. 1942. Agelenidae of the genera Hololena, Novalena, Rualena and Melpomene. Ann. ent. Soc. Amer. 35: 203-241.

Chamberlin, R. V. & W. Ivie. 1941. Spiders collected by L. W. Saylor and others, mostly in California. Bull. Univ. Utah 31(8): 1-49.

Chamberlin, R. V. & W. J. Gertsch. 1930. On fifteen new North American spiders. Proc. biol. Soc. Wash. 43: 137-144.

Exline, H. 1938. The Araneida of Washington: Agelenidae and Hahniidae. Univ. Wash. Publ. Biol. 9(1): 1-44.

Lehtinen, P. T. 1967. Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Ann. Zool. Fenn. 4: 199-468.

Roth, V. D. 1994. Spider Genera of North America, with Keys to Families and Genera, and a Guide to Literature, third edition. Am. Arachnol. Soc., Gainesville, 203 pp.

Roth, V. D. 1985. Spider genera of North America. American Arachnological Society, Gainesville, Florida.

Roth, V. D. 1982. Handbook for spider identification. Published by the author, Portal, Arizona.

Roth, V. D. & P. L. Brame. 1972. Nearctic genera of the spider family Agelenidae (Arachnida, Araneida). Am. Mus. Novit. 2505: 1-52.

Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/AGELENIDAE.html

Other Nearctic Members of Genus Novalena Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942‡‡

N. calavera Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 ...............USA
N. idahoana (Gertsch, 1934) ...............USA
N. lutzi (Gertsch, 1933) ...............USA
N. pina Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 ...............USA
N. wawona Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 ...............USA

‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution