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Hypochilus thorelli Marx, 1888

FAMILY: HYPOCHILIDAE Marx, 1888
    Genus: Hypochilus Marx, 1888

        Species: Hypochilus thorelli Marx, 1888

Common Names

Family Common Name:  lampshade weavers
Genus Common Name:  none
Species Common Name:  none

Distribution

Global Distribution: USA
Nearctic States & Provinces:   GA KY NC
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:

   seasonality
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

Hypochilus thorelli Marx 1888
Hypochilus thorellii Marx 1888
Hypochilus thorelli Simon 1892
Hypochilus thorelli Comstock 1912
Hypochilus thorelli Comstock 1940
Hypochilus thorelli Forster & Gray 1979
Hypochilus thorelli Forster, Platnick & Gray 1987
Hypochilus thorelli Catley 1994

Taxonomic References

Catley, K. M. 1994. Descriptions of new Hypochilus species from New Mexico and California with a cladistic analysis of the Hypochilidae (Araneae). Am. Mus. Novit. 3088: 1-27.

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

Forster, R. R. & M. R. Gray. 1979. Progradungula, a new cribellate genus of the spider family Gradungulidae (Araneae). Aust. J. Zool. 27: 1051-1071.

Forster, R. R., N. I. Platnick & M. R. Gray. 1987. A review of the spider superfamilies Hypochiloidea and Austrochiloidea (Araneae, Araneomorphae). Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 185: 1-116.

Gertsch, W. J. 1958. The spider family Hypochilidae. Am. Mus. Novit. 1912: 1-28.

Marx, G. 1888. On a new and interesting spider. Ent. Amer. 4: 160-162.

Simon, E. 1892. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris, 1: 1-256.

Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/HYPOCHILIDAE.html

Other Nearctic Members of Genus Hypochilus Marx, 1888‡‡

H. bernardino Catley, 1994 ...............USA
H. bonneti Gertsch, 1964 ...............USA
H. coylei Platnick, 1987 ...............USA
H. gertschi Hoffman, 1963 ...............USA
H. jemez Catley, 1994 ...............USA
H. kastoni Platnick, 1987 ...............USA
H. petrunkevitchi Gertsch, 1958 ...............USA
H. pococki Platnick, 1987 ...............USA
H. sheari Platnick, 1987 ...............USA

‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution