Nearctic States & Provinces: CT NH OK PA SC UT
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/25559
Trachelas tranquillus (Hentz, 1847)
FAMILY: CORINNIDAE Karsch, 1880
Genus: Trachelas L. Koch, 1872
Species: Trachelas tranquillus (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:
CT NH OK PA SC UT
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: Dept. Entomology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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†
| Agalena plumbea Hentz 1847 |
| Clubiona tranquilla Hentz 1847 |
| Trachelas tranquillus Hentz 1847 |
| Trachelas ruber Keyserling 1887 |
| Trachelas ruber Emerton 1890 |
| Trachelas ruber Simon 1897 |
| Trachelas ruber Emerton 1902 |
| Trachelas tranquilla Petrunkevitch 1911 |
| Trachelas tranquilla Comstock 1912 |
| Trachelas tranquillus Chickering 1939 |
| Trachelas tranquillus Kaston 1948 |
| Trachelas tranquillus Platnick & Shadab 1974 |
| Trachelas tranquillus Dondale & Redner 1982 |
| Trachelas tranquillus Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
Taxonomic References†
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. 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.
Keyserling, E. 1887. Neue Spinnen aus America. VII. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 37: 421-490.
Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.
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. & M. U. Shadab. 1974. A revision of the tranquillus and speciosus groups of the spider genus Trachelas (Araneae, Clubionidae) in North and Central America. Am. Mus. Novit. 2553: 1-34.
Simon, E. 1897. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris, 2: 1-192.
†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 Trachelas L. Koch, 1872‡‡
T. huachucanus Gertsch, 1942 ...............USA, Mexico
T. mexicanus Banks, 1898 ...............USA, Mexico
T. organatus Platnick & Shadab, 1974 ...............USA, Mexico
T. pacificus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 ...............USA, Mexico
T. similis F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1899 ...............USA to Costa Rica
T. sinuosus Platnick & Shadab, 1974 ...............USA
T. volutus Gertsch, 1935 ...............USA, Mexico
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution