Nearctic States & Provinces: AB BC ON YT CO MT NH NM OR UT WY
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/27258
Gnaphosa muscorum (L. Koch, 1866)
FAMILY: GNAPHOSIDAE Pocock, 1898
Genus: Gnaphosa Latreille, 1804
Species: Gnaphosa muscorum (L. Koch, 1866)
Author of this page: Shorthouse, David P. (Page is in progress)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
stealthy ground spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: Holarctic
Nearctic States & Provinces:
AB BC ON YT CO MT NH NM OR UT WY
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
Natural History, Phenology & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:‡
ground 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:
under stones, logs, pieces of fallen bark in open pine and spruce forests, sandy soil, grasslands
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)
Male Dimensions:
A+B = 8.12 mm
A = 4.04 mm
C = 3.14 mm
Image of External Male Genitalia:
(image not yet available)
Details About Females
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Female Dimensions:
A+B = 10.05 mm
A = 4.58 mm
C = 3.39 mm
Image of Epigynum:
(image not yet available)
Descriptions Source:
Platnick, N. I. & C. D. Dondale. 1992. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 19. The ground spiders of Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1875: 1-297.
Synonyms and Chresonyms†
| Gnaphosa muscorum L. Koch 1866 |
| Pythonissa muscorum L. Koch 1866 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Thorell 1871 |
| Gnaphosa conspersa Thorell 1877 |
| Gnaphosa tigrina Simon 1878 |
| Gnaphosa gigantea Keyserling 1887 |
| Gnaphosa conspersa Emerton 1890 |
| Gnaphosa conspersa Emerton 1902 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Lessert 1910 |
| Gnaphosa gigantea Comstock 1912 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Simon 1914 |
| Gnaphosa similis Kulczynski 1926 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Gertsch 1935 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Reimoser 1937 |
| Gnaphosa gigantea Comstock 1940 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Palmgren 1943 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Tullgren 1946 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Kaston 1948 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Buchar 1961 |
| Gnaphosa lesserti Schenkel 1963 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Beer 1964 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Tyschchenko 1971 |
| Gnaphosa mongolica Saveljeva 1972 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Ubick & Roth 1973 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Platnick & Shadab 1975 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Grimm 1985 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Ovtsharenko & Marusik 1988 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Wesolowska 1988 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Hu & Wu 1989 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Izmailova 1989 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Heimer & Nentwig 1991 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Song 1992 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Platnick & Dondale 1992 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Marusik & Logunov 1995 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Ovtsharenko & Marusik 1996 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Mcheidze 1997 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Song, Zhu & Chen 1999 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Marusik & Koponen 2000 |
| Gnaphosa similis Marusik & Koponen 2000 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Hu 2001 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Namkung 2002 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Namkung 2003 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Song, Zhu & Zhang 2004 |
| Gnaphosa muscorum Almquist 2006 |
Taxonomic References†
Almquist, S. 2006. Swedish Araneae, part 2--families Dictynidae to Salticidae. Insect Syst. Ecol., Suppl. 63: 285-601.
Beer, S. A. 1964. On the fauna and ecology of spiders in the Murman region. Zool. Zh. 43: 525-533.
Buchar, J. 1961. Revision des vorkommens von seltenen Spinnenarten auf dem Gebiete von Böhmen. Acta Univ. Carolinae Biol. 1961: 87-101.
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
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.
Gertsch, W. J. 1935. Spiders from the southwestern United States. Amer. Mus. Novit. 792: 1-31.
Grimm, U. 1985. Die Gnaphosidae Mitteleuropas (Arachnida, Araneae). Abh. naturw. Ver. Hamb. 26: 1-318.
Heimer, S. & W. Nentwig. 1991. Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Verlag Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp.
Hu, J. L. 2001. Spiders in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China. Henan Science and Technology Publishing House, 658 pp.
Hu, J. L. & W. G. Wu. 1989. Spiders from agricultural regions of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Shandong Univ. Publ. House, Jinan, 435 pp.
Izmailova, M. V. 1989. [Fauna of Spiders of South Part of Eastern Siberia]. Irkutsk, State Univ. Publ., 184 pp.
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.
Koch, L. 1866. Die Arachniden-Familie der Drassiden. Nürnberg, Hefte 1-6, pp. 1-304.
Kulczynski, W. 1926. Arachnoidea Camtschadalica. Iejiegod. Zool. Mouz. Akad. Naouk. SSSR 27: 29-72.
Lessert, R. de. 1910. Catalogue des invertebres de la Suisse. Fasc. 3, Araignées. Musée d'histoire naturelle de Genève, pp. 1-635.
Marusik, Y. M. & D. V. Logunov. 1995. Gnaphosid spiders from Tuva and adjacent territories, Russia. Beitr. Araneol. 4: 177-210.
Marusik, Y. M. & S. Koponen. 2000. New data on spiders (Aranei) from the Maritime Province, Russian Far East. Arthropoda Selecta 9: 55-68.
Mcheidze, T. S. 1997. [Spiders of Georgia: Systematics, Ecology, Zoogeographic Review]. Tbilisi Univ., 390 pp. (in Georgian).
Namkung, J. 2003. The Spiders of Korea, 2nd. ed. Kyo-Hak Publ. Co., Seoul, 648 pp.
Namkung, N. 2002. The spiders of Korea. Kyo-Hak Publishing Co., Seoul, 648 pp.
Ovtsharenko, V. I. & Y. M. Marusik. 1996. Additional data on the spiders of the family Gnaphosidae (Aranei) of the north-east of Asia. In ntomological Studies in the North-East of the USSR. USSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Vladivostok, pp. 114-130 (
Ovtsharenko, V. I. & Y. M. Marusik. 1988. Spiders of the family Gnaphosidae (Aranei) of the north-east of the USSR (the Magadan Province). Ent. Obozr. 67: 204-217.
Ovtsharenko, V. I., N. I. Platnick & D. X. Song. 1992. A review of the North Asian ground spiders of the genus Gnaphosa (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 212: 1-88.
Palmgren, P. 1943. Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands II. Act. zool. Fennica 36: 1-115.
Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.
Platnick, N. I. & C. D. Dondale. 1992. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 19. The ground spiders of Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1875: 1-297.
Platnick, N. I. & M. U. Shadab. 1975. A revision of the spider genus Gnaphosa (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in America. Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 155: 1-66.
Reimoser, E. 1937. Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea. VII. Gnaphosidae oder Plattbauchspinnen. In Die Tierwelt Deutschlands. Jena, 33(16): 1-41.
Saveljeva, L. G. 1972. New species of Gnaphosidae (Aranei) from the East-Kazakhstan district. Zool. Zh. 51: 1238-1241.
Schenkel, E. 1963. Ostasiatische Spinnen aus dem Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris. Mém. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. Paris (A, Zool.) 25: 1-481.
Simon, E. 1914. Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae; 1re partie. Paris, 6: 1-308.
Simon, E. 1878. Les arachnides de France. Paris, 4: 1-334.
Song, D. X., M. S. Zhu & F. Zhang. 2004. Fauna Sinica: Invertebrata Vol. 39: Arachnida: Araneae: Gnaphosidae. Science Press, Beijing, ix + 362 pp.
Song, D. X., M. S. Zhu & J. Chen. 1999. The Spiders of China. Hebei Sci. Technol. Publ. House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp.
Thorell, T. 1877. Descriptions of the Araneae collected in Colorado in 1875, by A. S. Packard jun., M.D. Bull. U. S. geol. Surv. 3: 477-529.
Thorell, T. 1871. Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. Part II. Uppsala, pp. 97-228.
Tullgren, A. 1946. Svenska spindelfauna: 3. Egentliga spindlar. Araneae. Fam. 5-7. Clubionidae, Zoridae och Gnaphosidae. Entomologiska Föreningen, Stockholm, 141 pp.
Tyschchenko, V. P. 1971. Opredelitel' paukov evropejskoj casti SSSR. Leningrad, pp. 1-281.
Ubick, D. & V. D. Roth. 1973. Nearctic Gnaphosidae including species from adjacent Mexican states. Am. Arachnol. 9(suppl. 2): 1-12.
Wesolowska, W. 1988. Redescriptions of the A. Grube's East Siberian species of spiders (Aranei) in the collection of the Natural History Museum at Wroclaw. Annls zool. Warsz. 41: 403-413.
†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/GNAPHOSIDAE.html
Natural History References
Platnick, N. I. & C. D. Dondale. 1992. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 19. The ground spiders of Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1875: 1-297.
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Gnaphosa Latreille, 1804‡‡
G. altudona Chamberlin, 1922 ...............USA
G. antipola Chamberlin, 1933 ...............USA, Canada
G. borea Kulczynski, 1908 ...............Holarctic
G. brumalis Thorell, 1875 ...............USA, Canada, Alaska
G. californica Banks, 1904 ...............USA, Canada
G. clara (Keyserling, 1887) ...............North America
G. dentata Platnick & Shadab, 1975 ...............USA
G. dolosa Herman, 1879 ...............Palearctic
G. fontinalis Keyserling, 1887 ...............USA, Mexico
G. hirsutipes Banks, 1901 ...............USA, Mexico
G. inconspecta Simon, 1878 ...............Palearctic
G. leporina (L. Koch, 1866) ...............Palearctic
G. lucifuga (Walckenaer, 1802) ...............Palearctic
G. maritima Platnick & Shadab, 1975 ...............USA, Mexico
G. microps Holm, 1939 ...............Holarctic
G. montana (L. Koch, 1866) ...............Palearctic
G. nigerrima L. Koch, 1877 ...............Palearctic
G. orites Chamberlin, 1922 ...............Holarctic
G. parvula Banks, 1896 ...............USA, Canada, Alaska
G. salsa Platnick & Shadab, 1975 ...............USA, Mexico
G. saxosa Platnick & Shadab, 1975 ...............USA
G. sericata (L. Koch, 1866) ...............USA to Guatemala, Cuba
G. snohomish Platnick & Shadab, 1975 ...............USA, Canada
G. sticta Kulczynski, 1908 ...............Palearctic
G. synthetica Chamberlin, 1924 ...............USA, Mexico
G. utahana Banks, 1904 ...............USA
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution
Page Reference:
Shorthouse, David P. in prep. Taxonomic and natural history description of FAM: GNAPHOSIDAE, Gnaphosa muscorum (L. Koch, 1866).
In: The Nearctic Spider Database. David P. Shorthouse (editor). World Wide Web electronic publication. Direct link: http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/27258 (Accessed: 7/20/2008 4:01:45 PM).
Author Email Address: dshorthouse@eol.org
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