Nearctic States & Provinces: MA MT NH PA
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/22458
Lathys foxi (Marx, 1891)
FAMILY: DICTYNIDAE O. P.-Cambridge, 1871
Genus: Lathys Simon, 1884
Species: Lathys foxi (Marx, 1891)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
meshweavers
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: USA
Nearctic States & Provinces:
MA MT NH PA
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
Natural History, Phenology & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:‡
space 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:
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†
| Lathys foxi Marx 1891 |
| Prodalia foxii Marx 1891 |
| Dictyna foxi Banks 1892 |
| Lathys foxi Simon 1892 |
| Lathys foxi Emerton 1911 |
| Lathys foxi Comstock 1912 |
| Lathys foxi Comstock 1940 |
| Lathys foxi Gertsch 1946 |
| Lathys foxi Kaston 1948 |
| Lathys foxi Chamberlin & Gertsch 1958 |
| Lathys foxi Roth 1985 |
| Lathys foxi Roth 1994 |
| Lathys foxii Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
Taxonomic References†
Banks, N. 1892. The spider fauna of the Upper Cayuga Lake Basin. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 1892: 11-81.
Chamberlin, R. V. & W. J. Gertsch. 1958. The spider family Dictynidae in America north of Mexico. Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 116: 1-152.
Comstock, J. H. 1940. The spider book, revised and edited by W. J. Gertsch. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, xi + 727 pp.
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
Emerton, J. H. 1911. New spiders from New England. Trans. Connect. Acad. Sci. Arts Let. 16: 383-407.
Gertsch, W. J. 1946. Notes on American spiders of the family Dictynidae. Am. Mus. Novit. 1319: 1-21.
Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.
Marx, G. 1891. A contribution to the knowledge of North American spiders. Proc. ent. Soc. Wash. 2: 28-37.
Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.
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.
Simon, E. 1892. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris, 1: 1-256.
†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/DICTYNIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Lathys Simon, 1884‡‡
L. alberta Gertsch, 1946 ...............USA, Canada, Alaska, Russia
L. albida Gertsch, 1946 ...............USA
L. delicatula (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936) ...............USA
L. dixiana Ivie & Barrows, 1935 ...............USA
L. humilis (Blackwall, 1855) ...............Palearctic
L. immaculata (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944) ...............USA
L. maculina Gertsch, 1946 ...............USA
L. pallida (Marx, 1891) ...............USA, Canada
L. stigmatisata (Menge, 1869) ...............Palearctic
L. sylvania Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958 ...............USA
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution