Nearctic States & Provinces: CO TX
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/27612
Nodocion floridanus (Banks, 1896)
FAMILY: GNAPHOSIDAE Pocock, 1898
Genus: Nodocion Chamberlin, 1922
Species: Nodocion floridanus (Banks, 1896)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
stealthy ground spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: USA, Mexico
Nearctic States & Provinces:
CO TX
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:
(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†
| Nodocion floridanus Banks 1896 |
| Prosthesima floridana Banks 1896 |
| Herpyllus floridanus Banks 1910 |
| Herpyllus floridanus Bryant 1935 |
| Liodrassus deceptus Gertsch & Mulaik 1936 |
| Liodrassus floridicolens Chamberlin 1936 |
| Nodocion melanie Levi 1951 |
| Nodocion melanie Levi & Field 1954 |
| Nodocion floridanus Platnick & Shadab 1977 |
| Nodocion floridanus Platnick & Shadab 1980 |
| Nodocion floridanus Heiss & Allen 1986 |
| Nodocion floridanus Platnick & Dondale 1992 |
| Nodocion floridanus Breene et al. 1993 |
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.
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. 1935. A few southern spiders. Psyche 42: 73-83.
Chamberlin, R. V. 1936. Further records and descriptions of North American Gnaphosidae. Amer. Mus. Novit. 853: 1-25.
Gertsch, W. J. & S. Mulaik. 1936. Diagnoses of new southern Spiders. Amer. Mus. Novit. 851: 1-21.
Heiss, J. S. & R. T. Allen. 1986. The Gnaphosidae of Arkansas. Bull. Ark. agric. Exp. Stn 885: 1-67.
Levi, H. W. 1951. New and rare spiders from Wisconsin and adjacent states. Am. Mus. Novit. 1501: 1-41.
Levi, H. W. & H. M. Field. 1954. The spiders of Wisconsin. Am. Midl. Nat. 51: 440-467.
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. 1980. A revision of the North American spider genera Nodocion, Litopyllus, and Synaphosus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Am. Mus. Novit. 2691: 1-26.
Platnick, N. I. & M. U. Shadab. 1977. A revision of the spider genera Herpyllus and Scotophaeus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in North America. Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 159: 1-44.
†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/GNAPHOSIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Nodocion Chamberlin, 1922‡‡
N. eclecticus Chamberlin, 1924 ...............North America
N. mateonus Chamberlin, 1922 ...............USA
N. rufithoracicus Worley, 1928 ...............USA, Canada
N. utus (Chamberlin, 1936) ...............USA, Mexico
N. voluntarius (Chamberlin, 1919) ...............North America
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution