The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/27926

Sergiolus minutus (Banks, 1898)

FAMILY: GNAPHOSIDAE Pocock, 1898
    Genus: Sergiolus Simon, 1891

        Species: Sergiolus minutus (Banks, 1898)

Common Names

Family Common Name:  stealthy ground spiders
Genus Common Name:  none
Species Common Name:  none

Distribution

Global Distribution: USA, Cuba, Jamaica

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)

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

Poecilochroa minuta Banks 1898
Sergiolus minutus Banks 1898
Sergiolus famulus Chamberlin 1922
Sergiolus meretrix Chamberlin 1922
Sergiolus minutus Chamberlin 1922
Poecilochroa minuta Bryant 1940
Sergiolus famulus Kaston 1945
Sergiolus meretrix Bryant 1945
Sergiolus meretrix Kaston 1945
Sergiolus famulus Kaston 1948
Poecilochroa famula Ubick & Roth 1973
Poecilochroa meretrix Ubick & Roth 1973
Sergiolus minutus Platnick & Shadab 1981
Sergiolus minutus Heiss & Allen 1986

Taxonomic References

Banks, N. 1898. Some new spiders. Canad. Ent. 30: 185-188.

Bryant, E. B. 1945. Some new or little known southern spiders. Psyche, Camb. 52: 178-192.

Bryant, E. B. 1940. Cuban spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 86: 247-554.

Chamberlin, R. V. 1922. The North American spiders of the family Gnaphosidae. Proc. biol. Soc. Wash. 35: 145-172.

Emerton, J. H. 1909. Supplement to the New England Spiders. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 14: 171-236.

Heiss, J. S. & R. T. Allen. 1986. The Gnaphosidae of Arkansas. Bull. Ark. agric. Exp. Stn 885: 1-67.

Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.

Kaston, B. J. 1945. New spiders in the group Dionycha with notes on other species. Am. Mus. Novit. 1290: 1-25.

Platnick, N. I. & M. U. Shadab. 1981. A revision of the spider genus Sergiolus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Am. Mus. Novit. 2717: 1-41.

Ubick, D. & V. D. Roth. 1973. Nearctic Gnaphosidae including species from adjacent Mexican states. Am. Arachnol. 9(suppl. 2): 1-12.

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 Sergiolus Simon, 1891‡‡

S. angustus (Banks, 1904) ...............North America
S. bicolor Banks, 1900 ...............USA, Canada
S. capulatus (Walckenaer, 1837) ...............USA, Canada
S. columbianus (Emerton, 1917) ...............USA, Canada
S. cyaneiventris Simon, 1893 ...............USA, Cuba
S. decoratus Kaston, 1945 ...............USA, Canada
S. gertschi Platnick & Shadab, 1981 ...............USA, Mexico
S. iviei Platnick & Shadab, 1981 ...............USA, Canada
S. kastoni Platnick & Shadab, 1981 ...............USA, Cuba
S. lowelli Chamberlin & Woodbury, 1929 ...............USA, Mexico
S. montanus (Emerton, 1890) ...............North America
S. ocellatus (Walckenaer, 1837) ...............USA, Canada
S. stella Chamberlin, 1922 ...............USA, Mexico
S. tennesseensis Chamberlin, 1922 ...............USA
S. unimaculatus Emerton, 1915 ...............USA, Canada

‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution