Nearctic States & Provinces: CO NH NM OK WY
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/23189
Titanoeca americana Emerton, 1888
FAMILY: TITANOECIDAE Lehtinen, 1967
Genus: Titanoeca Thorell, 1870
Species: Titanoeca americana Emerton, 1888
Common Names
Family Common Name:
titanoecid spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: North America
Nearctic States & Provinces:
CO NH NM OK WY
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:
(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†
| Titanoeca americana Emerton 1888 |
| Amaurobius americanus Emerton 1902 |
| Amaurobius americanus Crosby & Bishop 1928 |
| Titanoeca americana anopla Chamberlin 1947 |
| Titanoeca americana Kaston 1948 |
| Titanoeca anopla Lehtinen 1967 |
| Titanoeca americana Leech 1972 |
| Titanoeca americana Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
| Titanoeca americana Griswold et al. 2005 |
Taxonomic References†
Chamberlin, R. V. 1947. A summary of the known North American Amaurobiidae. Bull. Univ. Utah 38(8): 1-31.
Crosby, C. R. & S. C. Bishop. 1928. Araneae. In A list of the insects of New York. Mem. Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta. 101: 1034-1074.
Emerton, J. H. 1902. The common spiders of the United States. Boston, pp. 1-225.
Emerton, J. H. 1888. New England spiders of the family Ciniflonidae. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 7: 443-458.
Griswold, C. E., M. J. Ramírez, J. A. Coddington & N. I. Platnick. 2005. Atlas of phylogenetic data for entelegyne spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae: Entelegynae) with comments on their phylogeny. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 56(Suppl. II): 1-324.
Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.
Leech, R. E. 1972. A revision of the Nearctic Amaurobiidae (Arachnida: Araneida). Mem. ent. Soc. Can. 84: 1-182.
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.
Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.
†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/TITANOECIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Titanoeca Thorell, 1870‡‡
T. brunnea Emerton, 1888 ...............USA, Canada
T. flavicoma L. Koch, 1872 ...............Palearctic
T. nigrella (Chamberlin, 1919) ...............North America
T. nivalis Simon, 1874 ...............Holarctic
T. quadriguttata (Hahn, 1833) ...............Palearctic
T. schineri L. Koch, 1872 ...............Palearctic
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution