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Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
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Orodrassus coloradensis (Emerton, 1877)
FAMILY: GNAPHOSIDAE Pocock, 1898
Genus: Orodrassus Chamberlin, 1922
Species: Orodrassus coloradensis (Emerton, 1877)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
stealthy ground spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: USA, Canada
Nearctic States & Provinces:
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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:
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Image(s) of Habitus:
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Details About Males
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of External Male Genitalia:
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Details About Females
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of Epigynum:
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Synonyms and Chresonyms†
| Drassus coloradensis Emerton 1877 |
| Orodrassus coloradensis Emerton 1877 |
| Teminius continentalis Keyserling 1887 |
| Drassus coloradensis Emerton 1894 |
| Syrisca continentalis Simon 1897 |
| Drassodes melius Chamberlin 1919 |
| Orodrassus coloradensis Chamberlin 1922 |
| Orodrassus coloradensis Chamberlin 1936 |
| Orodrassus coloradensis Platnick & Shadab 1975 |
| Orodrassus coloradensis Platnick & Dondale 1992 |
Taxonomic References†
Chamberlin, R. V. 1936. Further records and descriptions of North American Gnaphosidae. Amer. Mus. Novit. 853: 1-25.
Chamberlin, R. V. 1922. The North American spiders of the family Gnaphosidae. Proc. biol. Soc. Wash. 35: 145-172.
Chamberlin, R. V. 1919. New western spiders. Ann. ent. Soc. Amer. 12: 239-260.
Emerton, J. H. 1894. Canadian spiders. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 9: 400-429.
Emerton, J. H. 1877. Descriptions of two new spiders from Colorado. Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. 3: 528-529.
Keyserling, E. 1887. Neue Spinnen aus America. VII. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 37: 421-490.
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 genera Haplodrassus and Orodrassus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in North America. Am. Mus. Novit. 2583: 1-40.
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/GNAPHOSIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Orodrassus Chamberlin, 1922‡‡
O. assimilis (Banks, 1895) ...............USA
O. canadensis Platnick & Shadab, 1975 ...............USA, Canada
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution