Nearctic States & Provinces: CA SC
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/23926
Lupettiana mordax (O. P.-Cambridge, 1896)
FAMILY: ANYPHAENIDAE Bertkau, 1878
Genus: Lupettiana Brescovit, 1997
Species: Lupettiana mordax (O. P.-Cambridge, 1896)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
ghost spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: USA to Peru, Brazil
Nearctic States & Provinces:
CA SC
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:
Credit: Hollenbeck, Jeff
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†
| Delozeugma mordax O. P.-Cambridge 1896 |
| Lupettiana mordax O. P.-Cambridge 1896 |
| Teudis mordax O. P.-Cambridge 1896 |
| Anyphaena fragilis Banks 1897 |
| Gayenna minuta Banks 1898 |
| Gayenna parvula Banks 1899 |
| Gayenna minutissima Petrunkevitch 1911 |
| Gayenna absoluta Chamberlin 1924 |
| Anyphaena fragilis Bryant 1931 |
| Anyphaena laticeps Bryant 1931 |
| Sillus coloratus Chickering 1937 |
| Anyphaena barrowsi Chamberlin & Ivie 1946 |
| Teudis fragilis Barnes 1953 |
| Teudis mordax Platnick 1974 |
| Teudis mordax Breene et al. 1993 |
| Lupettiana mordax Brescovit 1997 |
| Lupettiana mordax Brescovit 1999 |
Taxonomic References†
Banks, N. 1899. Some spiders from northern Louisiana. Proc. ent. Soc. Wash. 4: 188-195.
Banks, N. 1898. Arachnida from Baja California and other parts of Mexico. Proc. Californ. Acad. Sci. (3) 1: 205-308.
Banks, N. 1897. Descriptions of new spiders. Canad. Ent. 29: 193-197.
Barnes, R. D. 1953. Report on a collection of spiders from the coast of North Carolina. Am. Mus. Novit. 1632: 1-21.
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. 1999. Revisão das aranhas do gênero Lupettiana Brescovit (Araneae, Anyphaenidae, Anyphaeninae). Revta bras. Zool. 16(Supl. 2): 63-76.
Brescovit, A. D. 1997. Revisão de Anyphaeninae Bertkau a nivel de gêneros na região Neotropical (Araneae, Anyphaenidae). Revta bras. Zool. 13(Suppl.1): 1-187.
Bryant, E. B. 1931. Note on the North American Anyphaeninae in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Psyche 38: 102-126.
Cambridge, O. P.-. 1896. Arachnida. Araneida. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 1: 161-224.
Chamberlin, R. V. 1924. The spider fauna of the shores and islands of the Gulf of California. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 12: 561-694.
Chamberlin, R. V. & W. Ivie. 1946. On several new American spiders. Bull. Univ. Utah 36(13): 1-15.
Chickering, A. M. 1937. Anyphaenidae of Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone. Pap. Michigan Acad. Sci. 22: 541-561.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1911. A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greeland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 29: 1-791.
Platnick, N. I. 1974. The spider family Anyphaenidae in America north of Mexico. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 146: 205-266.
†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 Lupettiana Brescovit, 1997‡‡
No Other Species
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution