The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/25021
Castianeira longipalpa (Hentz, 1847)
FAMILY: CORINNIDAE Karsch, 1880
Genus: Castianeira Keyserling, 1879
Species: Castianeira longipalpa (Hentz, 1847)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
antmimic spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: USA, Canada
Nearctic States & Provinces:
ON CO CT MO NH OK SC VA WA
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
Natural History, Phenology & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:‡
(not yet recorded or unknown)
‡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: Murray, Tom
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†
| Castianeira longipalpa Hentz 1847 |
| Herpyllus longipalpus Hentz 1847 |
| Agroeca tristis Keyserling 1887 |
| Geotrecha pinnata Emerton 1890 |
| Thargalia longipalpis Marx 1890 |
| Thargalia pinnata Marx 1890 |
| Thargalia perplexa Banks 1892 |
| Corinna media Banks 1896 |
| Corinna pacifica Banks 1896 |
| Castianeira pinnata Bryant 1908 |
| Castianeira longipalpis Banks 1910 |
| Castianeira tristis Banks 1910 |
| Castianeira longipalpis Comstock 1912 |
| Castianeira longipalpis Chickering 1939 |
| Castianeira longipalpis Kaston 1948 |
| Castianeira longipalpus Reiskind 1969 |
| Castianeira longipalpa Dondale & Redner 1982 |
| Castianeira longipalpus Breene et al. 1993 |
| Castianeira longipalpa Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
Taxonomic References†
Banks, N. 1910. Catalogue of Nearctic spiders. Bull. U. S. nat. Mus. 72: 1-80.
Banks, N. 1896. New North American spiders and mites. Trans. Amer. ent. Soc. 23: 57-77.
Banks, N. 1892. The spider fauna of the Upper Cayuga Lake Basin. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 1892: 11-81.
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. 1908. List of the Araneina. In Fauna of New England, 9. Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. nat. Hist. 7: 1-105.
Chickering, A. M. 1939. Anyphaenidae and Clubionidae of Michigan. Pap. Michig. Acad. Sci. 24: 49-84.
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. 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.
Keyserling, E. 1887. Neue Spinnen aus America. VII. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 37: 421-490.
Marx, G. 1890. Catalogue of the described Araneae of temperate North America. Proc. U. S. nat. Mus. 12: 497-594.
Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.
Reiskind, J. 1969. The spider subfamily Castianeirinae of North and Central America (Araneae, Clubionidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 138: 163-325.
†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/CORINNIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Castianeira Keyserling, 1879‡‡
C. alata Muma, 1945 ...............USA
C. alfa Reiskind, 1969 ...............USA
C. alteranda Gertsch, 1942 ...............USA, Canada
C. amoena (C. L. Koch, 1841) ...............USA, Mexico
C. athena Reiskind, 1969 ...............USA, Mexico
C. cingulata (C. L. Koch, 1841) ...............USA, Canada
C. crocata (Hentz, 1847) ...............USA
C. crucigera (Hentz, 1847) ...............USA
C. cubana (Banks, 1926) ...............USA, Cuba, Panama
C. descripta (Hentz, 1847) ...............USA, Canada
C. dorsata (Banks, 1898) ...............USA, Mexico
C. floridana (Banks, 1904) ...............USA, Cuba
C. gertschi Kaston, 1945 ...............USA, Canada
C. luctifera Petrunkevitch, 1911 ...............USA
C. mexicana (Banks, 1898) ...............USA, Mexico
C. nanella Gertsch, 1933 ...............USA, Mexico
C. occidens Reiskind, 1969 ...............USA, Mexico
C. peregrina (Gertsch, 1935) ...............USA
C. rothi Reiskind, 1969 ...............USA
C. thalia Reiskind, 1969 ...............USA
C. trilineata (Hentz, 1847) ...............USA, Canada
C. variata Gertsch, 1942 ...............USA, Canada
C. vulnerea Gertsch, 1942 ...............USA
C. walsinghami (O. P.-Cambridge, 1874) ...............USA, Canada
C. zionis (Chamberlin & Woodbury, 1929) ...............USA
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution