Nearctic States & Provinces: CT MD NH SC MD
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/22930
Coras medicinalis (Hentz, 1821)
FAMILY: AMAUROBIIDAE Thorell, 1870
Genus: Coras Simon, 1898
Species: Coras medicinalis (Hentz, 1821)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
hackledmesh weavers
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: USA, Canada
Nearctic States & Provinces:
CT MD NH SC MD
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:
Image(s) of Habitus:
Credit: Dept. Biology, Samford University
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†
| Coras medicinalis Hentz 1821 |
| Tegenaria medicinalis Hentz 1821 |
| Clubiona medicinalis Walckenaer 1837 |
| Tegenaria nemorensis Walckenaer 1842 |
| Tegenaria medicinalis Hentz 1847 |
| Tegenaria medicinalis Hentz 1867 |
| Coelotes urbanus Keyserling 1887 |
| Coras medicinalis Simon 1898 |
| Tegenaria medicinalis Emerton 1902 |
| Coras medicinalis Comstock 1912 |
| Coras medicinalis Comstock 1940 |
| Coras medicinalis Muma 1943 |
| Coras medicinalis Muma 1946 |
| Coras medicinalis Kaston 1948 |
| Coras medicinalis Gering 1953 |
| Coras montanus Roth & Brame 1972 |
| Coras medicinalis Roth 1982 |
| Coras medicinalis Roth 1985 |
| Coras medicinalis Roth 1994 |
| Coras medicinalis Wang 2002 |
| Coras medicinalis Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
Taxonomic References†
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. 1902. The common spiders of the United States. Boston, pp. 1-225.
Gering, R. L. 1953. Structure and function of the genitalia in some American agelenid spiders. Smithsonian misc. Coll. 121(4): 1-84.
Hentz, N. M. 1867. Supplement to the descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States by Nicholas Marcellus Hentz (edited by S. H. Scudder, after death of Hentz). Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist. 11: 103-111.
Hentz, N. M. 1847. Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston J. nat. Hist. 5: 443-478.
Hentz, N. M. 1821. A notice concerning the spiders whose web is used in medicine. Jour. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 2: 53-55.
Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.
Keyserling, E. 1887. Neue Spinnen aus America. VII. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 37: 421-490.
Muma, M. H. 1946. North American Agelenidae of the genus Coras Simon. Am. Mus. Novit. 1329: 1-20.
Muma, M. H. 1943. Common spiders of Maryland. Natural History Society of Maryland, Baltimore, 179 pp.
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.
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.
Simon, E. 1898. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris, 2: 193-380.
Walckenaer, C. A. 1842. Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Paris, 2: 1-549.
Walckenaer, C. A. 1837. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Paris, 1: 1-682.
Wang, X. P. 2002. A generic-level revision of the spider subfamily Coelotinae (Araneae, Amaurobiidae). Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 269: 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 Coras Simon, 1898‡‡
C. aerialis Muma, 1946 ...............USA
C. alabama Muma, 1946 ...............USA
C. angularis Muma, 1944 ...............USA
C. cavernorum Barrows, 1940 ...............USA
C. crescentis Muma, 1944 ...............USA
C. furcatus Muma, 1946 ...............USA
C. juvenilis (Keyserling, 1881) ...............USA
C. kisatchie Muma, 1946 ...............USA
C. lamellosus (Keyserling, 1887) ...............USA
C. montanus (Emerton, 1889) ...............USA, Canada
C. parallelis Muma, 1944 ...............USA
C. perplexus Muma, 1946 ...............USA
C. taugynus Chamberlin, 1925 ...............USA
C. tennesseensis Muma, 1946 ...............USA
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution