Nearctic States & Provinces: CO WY
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/27973
Sosticus loricatus (L. Koch, 1866)
FAMILY: GNAPHOSIDAE Pocock, 1898
Genus: Sosticus Chamberlin, 1922
Species: Sosticus loricatus (L. Koch, 1866)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
stealthy ground spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: Holarctic
Nearctic States & Provinces:
CO 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:
(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†
| Drassus loricatus L. Koch 1866 |
| Sosticus loricatus L. Koch 1866 |
| Drassus loricatus longipes Kroneberg 1875 |
| Drassus navaricus Simon 1878 |
| Drassus corcyraeus Simon 1884 |
| Drassus loricatus Chyzer & Kulczynski 1897 |
| Drassus loricatus Bösenberg 1902 |
| Scotophaeus loricatus Strand 1907 |
| Scotophaeus loricatus Simon 1914 |
| Scotophaeus loricatus Reimoser 1937 |
| Sostogeus zygethus Chamberlin & Gertsch 1940 |
| Scotophaeus loricatus Palmgren 1943 |
| Scotophaeus loricatus Levi & Field 1954 |
| Gnaphosa rufa Denis 1958 |
| Scotophaeus loricatus Miller 1971 |
| Sostogeus loricatus Ubick & Roth 1973 |
| Sosticus loricatus Platnick & Shadab 1976 |
| Sostogeus loricatus Kaston 1977 |
| Sosticus loricatus Grimm 1985 |
| Sosticus loricatus Hu & Wu 1989 |
| Sosticus loricatus Heimer & Nentwig 1991 |
| Sosticus loricatus Ovtsharenko, Platnick & Song 1992 |
| Sosticus loricatus Platnick & Dondale 1992 |
| Sosticus loricatus Tuneva & Esyunin 2002 |
| Sosticus loricatus Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
| Sosticus loricatus Song, Zhu & Zhang 2004 |
| Sosticus loricatus Trotta 2005 |
Taxonomic References†
Bösenberg, W. 1902. Die Spinnen Deutschlands. II-IV. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 14: 97-384.
Chamberlin, R. V. & W. J. Gertsch. 1940. Descriptions of new Gnaphosidae from the United States. Amer. Mus. Novit. 1068: 1-19.
Chyzer, C. & W. Kulczynski. 1897. Araneae hungariae. Budapest, 2: 151-366.
Denis, J. 1958. Araignées (Araneidea) de l'Afghanistan. I. Vidensk. Meddr dansk naturh. Foren. 120: 81-120.
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. & W. G. Wu. 1989. Spiders from agricultural regions of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Shandong Univ. Publ. House, Jinan, 435 pp.
Kaston, B. J. 1976. Supplement to the spiders of Connecticut. J. Arachnol. 4: 1-72.
Koch, L. 1866. Die Arachniden-Familie der Drassiden. Nürnberg, Hefte 1-6, pp. 1-304.
Kroneberg, A. 1875. Araneae. In Fedtschenko, A. P. (ed.), Puteshestvie v Tourkestan. Reisen in Turkestan. Zoologischer Theil. Nachr. Ges. Moskau 19: 1-58
Levi, H. W. & H. M. Field. 1954. The spiders of Wisconsin. Am. Midl. Nat. 51: 440-467.
Miller, F. 1971. Pavouci-Araneida. Klíc zvíreny CSSR 4: 51-306.
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. 1976. A revision of the spider genera Rachodrassus, Sosticus, and Scopodes (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in North America. Am. Mus. Novit. 2594: 1-33.
Reimoser, E. 1937. Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea. VII. Gnaphosidae oder Plattbauchspinnen. In Die Tierwelt Deutschlands. Jena, 33(16): 1-41.
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. 1884. Études arachnologiques. 16e Mémoire. XXIII. Matériaux pour servir à la faune des arachnides de la Grèce. Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. (6) 4: 305-356.
Simon, E. 1878. Description de Xysticus dentiger et de Drassus navaricus. Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. (5) 8(Bull.): 158-160.
Song, D. X., M. S. Zhu & F. Zhang. 2004. Fauna Sinica: Invertebrata Vol. 39: Arachnida: Araneae: Gnaphosidae. Science Press, Beijing, ix + 362 pp.
Strand, E. 1907. Süd- und ostasiatische Spinnen. Abh. naturf. Ges. Görlitz 25: 107-215.
Trotta, A. 2005. Introduzione al ragni italiani (Arachnida Araneae). Memorie Soc. entomol. ital. 83: 3-178.
Tuneva, T. K. & S. L. Esyunin. 2002. A review of the family Gnaphosidae in the fauna of the Urals (Aranei), 2. New and rare genera. Arthropoda Selecta 10: 217-224.
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 Sosticus Chamberlin, 1922‡‡
S. californicus Platnick & Shadab, 1976 ...............USA
S. insularis (Banks, 1895) ...............USA, Canada
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution