Nearctic States & Provinces: CT LA PA SC WI
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/24117
Wulfila saltabundus (Hentz, 1847)
FAMILY: ANYPHAENIDAE Bertkau, 1878
Genus: Wulfila O. P.-Cambridge, 1895
Species: Wulfila saltabundus (Hentz, 1847)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
ghost spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: USA, Canada
Nearctic States & Provinces:
CT LA PA SC WI
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†
| Clubiona saltabunda Hentz 1847 |
| Wulfila saltabundus Hentz 1847 |
| Anyphaena saltabunda Emerton 1890 |
| Anyphaena saltabunda Emerton 1902 |
| Gayenna saltabunda Comstock 1912 |
| Anyphaenella saltabunda Bryant 1931 |
| Anyphaenella saltabunda Comstock 1940 |
| Anyphaenella saltabunda Muma 1943 |
| Anyphaenella saltabunda Kaston 1948 |
| Wulfila saltabunda Platnick 1974 |
| Wulfila saltabundus Dondale & Redner 1982 |
| Wulfila saltabundus Breene et al. 1993 |
| Wulfila saltabundus Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
Taxonomic References†
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.
Bryant, E. B. 1931. Note on the North American Anyphaeninae in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Psyche 38: 102-126.
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. 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.
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.
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 Wulfila O. P.-Cambridge, 1895‡‡
W. albens (Hentz, 1847) ...............USA
W. bryantae Platnick, 1974 ...............USA, Mexico
W. immaculatus Banks, 1914 ...............USA, Cuba, Puerto Rico
W. immaculellus (Gertsch, 1933) ...............USA, Mexico
W. scopulatus Simon, 1897 ...............America
W. tantillus Chickering, 1940 ...............USA to Panama
W. wunda Platnick, 1974 ...............USA, Cuba, Mona Is.
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution