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)
Image(s) of Habitus:
Credit: Nieuwenhuys, Ed
Details About Males
Description:
Carapace orange and darkened in cephalic region. Legs are slightly paler than carapace. Palpal tibiae and cymbium slightly darker than legs. Chelicerae orange-brown and slightly darker than cephalic region of carapace. Opisthosoma with dark grey and yellow streaks and dorsal region with three pale stripes toward anterior region and irregular or indistinct chevrons toward posterior region.
Male Dimensions:
A+B = 8.5 mm
A = (not recorded)
C = (not recorded)
Image of External Male Genitalia:
(image not yet available)
Details About Females
Description:
Carapace light orange and darkened in cephalic region to brown-orange. Legs have pale annulations and as a whole, are paler than carapace. Legs I are darker toward distal end as are palpi. Chelicerae are chestnut brown. Otherwise similar to males.
Female Dimensions:
A+B = 12 mm
A = (not recorded)
C = (not recorded)
Image of Epigynum:
(image not yet available)
Descriptions Source:
Leech, R. E. 1972. A revision of the Nearctic Amaurobiidae (Arachnida: Araneida). Mem. ent. Soc. Can. 84: 1-182.
Synonyms and Chresonyms†
| Amaurobius similis Blackwall 1861 |
| Ciniflo similis Blackwall 1861 |
| Amaurobius similis L. Koch 1868 |
| Amaurobius similis O. P.-Cambridge 1879 |
| Amaurobius similis F. O. P.-Cambridge 1892 |
| Amaurobius similis Becker 1896 |
| Amaurobius similis Bösenberg 1902 |
| Ciniflo similis Smith 1908 |
| Amaurobius similis J. Berland 1913 |
| Amaurobius similis Simon 1914 |
| Amaurobius alaskanus Chamberlin & Ivie 1947 |
| Callobius alaskanus Chamberlin 1947 |
| Ciniflo similis Jong 1948 |
| Ciniflo similis Chrysanthus 1949 |
| Ciniflo similis Locket & Millidge 1951 |
| Amaurobius similis Wiehle 1953 |
| Amaurobius similis Dresco 1959 |
| Amaurobius similis Braendegaard 1966 |
| Amaurobius similis Leech 1971 |
| Amaurobius similis Tyschchenko 1971 |
| Amaurobius similis Leech 1972 |
| Amaurobius similis Forster & Wilton 1973 |
| Amaurobius similis Dresco 1977 |
| Amaurobius similis Roberts 1985 |
| Amaurobius similis Roth 1985 |
| Amaurobius similis Heimer & Nentwig 1991 |
| Amaurobius similis Grothendieck & Kraus 1994 |
| Amaurobius similis Roth 1994 |
| Amaurobius similis Roberts 1995 |
| Amaurobius similis Bellmann 1997 |
| Amaurobius similis Mcheidze 1997 |
| Amaurobius similis Roberts 1998 |
| Amaurobius similis Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
| Amaurobius similis Almquist 2006 |
Taxonomic References†
Almquist, S. 2005. Swedish Araneae, part 1: families Atypidae to Hahniidae (Linyphiidae excluded). Insect Syst. Ecol., Suppl. 62: 1-284.
Becker, L. 1896. Les arachnides de Belgique. Ann. Mus. Roy. Hist. nat. Belg. 12: 1-3788.
Bellmann, H. 1997. Kosmos-Atlas Spinnentiere Europas. Frankh-Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart, 304 pp.
Berland, J. 1913. Note préliminaire sur le cribellum et le calamistrum des araignées cribellates et sur les moeurs de ces araignées. Arch. Zool. expér. gen. 51(Notes & Rev.): 23-41
Blackwall, J. 1861. A history of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. London, 1: 1-174.
Bösenberg, W. 1902. Die Spinnen Deutschlands. II-IV. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 14: 97-384.
Braendegaard, J. 1966. Edderkopper: Eller Spindlere I. Danmarks Fauna 72: 1-224.
Cambridge, F. O. P.-. 1892. New and obscure British spiders. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 10: 384-397.
Cambridge, O. P.-. 1879. The spiders of Dorset. Araneidea. Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist Field Club 1: 1-235.
Chamberlin, R. V. 1947. A summary of the known North American Amaurobiidae. Bull. Univ. Utah 38(8): 1-31.
Chamberlin, R. V. & W. Ivie. 1947. North American dictynid spiders. Ann. ent. Soc. Amer. 40: 29-55.
Chrysanthus, P. 1949. Paringsbiologie bij spinnen. In In het Voetspoor van Thijsse. Wageningen, H. Veenman, pp. 349-359.
Dresco, E. 1977. Recherches sur les Amaurobius (Araneae, Amaurobiidae) et description de A. tessinensis sp. nov. du Tessin (Suisse). Revue suisse Zool. 84: 873-882.
Dresco, E. 1959. Araignées et opilions capturés dans quelques cavités souterraines de l'Ouest et du Sud-Ouest de la France. Bull. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. Paris 31: 88-94.
Forster, R. R. & C. L. Wilton. 1973. The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV. Otago Mus. Bull. 4: 1-309.
Grothendieck, K. & O. Kraus. 1994. Die Wasserspinne Argyroneta aquatica: Verwandtschaft und Spezialisation (Arachnida, Araneae, Agelenidae). Verh. naturwiss. Ver. Hamburg (N.F.) 34: 259-273.
Heimer, S. & W. Nentwig. 1991. Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Verlag Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp.
Jong, B. de. 1948. Onze Spinnen. Levende Natuur 51: 115-122.
Koch, L. 1868. Die Arachnidengattungen Amaurobius, Coelotes and Cybaeus. Abh. naturh. Ges. Nürnberg 4: 1-52.
Leech, R. E. 1972. A revision of the Nearctic Amaurobiidae (Arachnida: Araneida). Mem. ent. Soc. Can. 84: 1-182.
Leech, R. E. 1971. The introduced Amaurobiidae of North America, and Callobius hokkaido n. sp. from Japan (Arachnida: Araneida). Can. Ent. 103: 23-32.
Locket, G. H. & A. F. Millidge. 1951. British spiders. Ray Society, London, 1: 1-310.
Mcheidze, T. S. 1997. [Spiders of Georgia: Systematics, Ecology, Zoogeographic Review]. Tbilisi Univ., 390 pp. (in Georgian).
Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.
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.
Roberts, M. J. 1985. The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1: Atypidae to Theridiosomatidae. Harley Books, Colchester, England.
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. 1914. Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae; 1re partie. Paris, 6: 1-308.
Smith, F. P. 1908. Some British spiders taken in 1908. Jour. Queck. Micr. Cl. (2) 10: 311-334.
Tyschchenko, V. P. 1971. Opredelitel' paukov evropejskoj casti SSSR. Leningrad, pp. 1-281.
Wiehle, H. 1953. Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae) IX: Orthognatha-Cribellatae-Haplogynae-Entelegynae (Pholcidae, Zodariidae, Oxyopidae, Mimetidae, Nesticidae). Tierwelt Deutschlands 42: i-viii, 1-150.
†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/AMAUROBIIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Amaurobius C. L. Koch, 1837‡‡
A. agastus (Chamberlin, 1947) ...............USA
A. barbaricus Leech, 1972 ...............USA
A. borealis Emerton, 1909 ...............USA, Canada
A. corruptus Leech, 1972 ...............USA
A. diablo Leech, 1972 ...............USA
A. distortus Leech, 1972 ...............USA
A. dorotheae (Chamberlin, 1947) ...............USA
A. ferox (Walckenaer, 1830) ...............Holarctic
A. galeritus Leech, 1972 ...............USA
A. hagiellus (Chamberlin, 1947) ...............USA
A. heathi (Chamberlin, 1947) ...............USA
A. intermedius Leech, 1972 ...............USA
A. latescens (Chamberlin, 1919) ...............USA
A. leechi Brignoli, 1983 ...............USA
A. mathetes (Chamberlin, 1947) ...............USA
A. mephisto (Chamberlin, 1947) ...............USA
A. minutus Leech, 1972 ...............USA
A. palomar Leech, 1972 ...............USA
A. prosopidus Leech, 1972 ...............USA
A. tamalpais Leech, 1972 ...............USA
A. transversus Leech, 1972 ...............USA
A. triangularis Leech, 1972 ...............USA
A. tulare Leech, 1972 ...............USA
A. vexans Leech, 1972 ...............USA
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution
Page Reference:
Shorthouse, David P. submitted. Taxonomic and natural history description of FAM: AMAUROBIIDAE, Amaurobius similis (Blackwall, 1861).
In: The Nearctic Spider Database. David P. Shorthouse (editor). World Wide Web electronic publication. Direct link: http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/22639 (Accessed: 8/8/2008 3:10:50 PM).
Author Email Address: dshorthouse@eol.org
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