Nearctic States & Provinces: CT NH NJ OK TX
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/23877
Hibana gracilis (Hentz, 1847)
garden ghost spider
FAMILY: ANYPHAENIDAE Bertkau, 1878
Genus: Hibana Brescovit, 1991
Species: Hibana gracilis (Hentz, 1847)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
ghost spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
garden ghost spider
Distribution
Global Distribution: USA, Canada
Nearctic States & Provinces:
CT NH NJ OK TX
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
Natural History, Phenology & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:‡
foliage runners
‡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†
| Anyphaena gracilis Hentz 1847 |
| Clubiona gracilis Hentz 1847 |
| Hibana gracilis Hentz 1847 |
| Anyphaena gracilis L. Koch 1866 |
| Anyphaena rubra Emerton 1890 |
| Anyphaena rubra Emerton 1902 |
| Anyphaena rubra Emerton 1909 |
| Aysha striata Banks 1909 |
| Anyphaena gracilis Comstock 1912 |
| Aysha gracilis Bryant 1931 |
| Anyphaena gracilis Peelle & Saito 1932 |
| Aysha gracilis Chickering 1939 |
| Aysha gracilis Comstock 1940 |
| Aysha gracilis Muma 1943 |
| Aysha gracilis Kaston 1948 |
| Anyphaena gracilis Saito 1959 |
| Aysha gracilis Shear 1967 |
| Aysha gracilis Platnick 1974 |
| Aysha gracilis Dondale & Redner 1982 |
| Hibana gracilis Brescovit 1991 |
| Aysha gracilis Breene et al. 1993 |
Taxonomic References†
Banks, N. 1909. Arachnida of Cuba. Estación central agronómica de Cuba, Second Report. II: 150-174.
Breene, R. G., D. A. Dean, M. Nyffeler & G. B. Edwards. 1993. Biology, Predation Ecology, and Significance of Spiders in Texas Cotton Ecosystems with a Key to Species. Texas Agriculture Experiment Station, College Station, 115 pp.
Brescovit, A. D. 1991. Hibana, novo gênero de aranhas da família Anyphaenidae (Arachnida, Araneae). Revta bras. Ent. 35: 729-744.
Bryant, E. B. 1931. Note on the North American Anyphaeninae in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Psyche 38: 102-126.
Chickering, A. M. 1939. Anyphaenidae and Clubionidae of Michigan. Pap. Michig. Acad. Sci. 24: 49-84.
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
Dondale, C. D. & J. H. Redner. 1982. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 9. The sac spiders of Canada and Alaska, Araneae: Clubionidae and Anyphaenidae. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1724: 1-194.
Emerton, J. H. 1909. Supplement to the New England Spiders. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 14: 171-236.
Emerton, J. H. 1902. The common spiders of the United States. Boston, pp. 1-225.
Emerton, J. H. 1890. New England spiders of the families Drassidae, Agalenidae and Dysderidae. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 8: 166-206.
Hentz, N. M. 1847. Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston J. nat. Hist. 5: 443-478.
Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.
Koch, L. 1866. Die Arachniden-Familie der Drassiden. Nürnberg, Hefte 1-6, pp. 1-304.
Muma, M. H. 1943. Common spiders of Maryland. Natural History Society of Maryland, Baltimore, 179 pp.
Peelle, M. L. & S. Saito. 1932. Spiders from the southern Kurile Islands. I. Araneida from Iturup. Jour. Fac. Sci. Hokkaido Zool. (6) 2: 83-96.
Platnick, N. I. 1974. The spider family Anyphaenidae in America north of Mexico. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 146: 205-266.
Saito, S. 1959. The Spider Book Illustrated in Colours. Hokuryukan, Tokyo, 194 pp.
Shear, W. A. 1967. Expanding the palpi of male spiders. Breviora 259: 1-27.
†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/ANYPHAENIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Hibana Brescovit, 1991‡‡
H. arunda (Platnick, 1974) ...............USA, Mexico
H. cambridgei (Bryant, 1931) ...............USA, Mexico
H. futilis (Banks, 1898) ...............USA to Venezuela, Cuba
H. incursa (Chamberlin, 1919) ...............USA to Panama
H. velox (Becker, 1879) ...............USA, Mexico, West Indies
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution