The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/33233

Eris militaris (Hentz, 1845)
bronze jumper

FAMILY: SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841
    Genus: Eris C. L. Koch, 1846
        Species: Eris militaris (Hentz, 1845)

Common Names

Family Common Name:  jumping spiders
Genus Common Name:  none
Species Common Name:  bronze jumper

Distribution

Global Distribution: USA, Canada, Alaska
Nearctic States & Provinces:   AB QC CO ID MT NJ OK TX
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected: 

Natural History, Phenology & Image(s)

Feeding Guild:‡  stalkers
‡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:


Credit: Buckle, Don

Details About Males

Description:  (not yet recorded or unknown)

Image of External Male Genitalia:


Credit: Barnes, Jay

Details About Females

Description:  (not yet recorded or unknown)

Image of Epigynum:  (image not yet available)

Synonyms and Chresonyms†

Attus militaris Hentz 1845
Eris militaris Hentz 1845
Eris aurigera C. L. Koch 1846
Euophrys humilis C. L. Koch 1846
Plexippus albovittatus C. L. Koch 1846
Icius albovittatus Keyserling 1885
Eris marginatus Peckham & Peckham 1886
Philaeus militaris Peckham & Peckham 1888
Dendryphantes militaris Emerton 1891
Icius moestus Banks 1892
Paraphidippus militaris F. O. P.-Cambridge 1901
Dendryphantes militaris Emerton 1902
Dendryphantes militaris Emerton 1909
Dendryphantes militaris Peckham & Peckham 1909
Dendryphantes marginatus Petrunkevitch 1911
Dendryphantes militaris Comstock 1912
Dendryphantes louisianus Chamberlin 1924
Phidippus molinor Chamberlin 1925
Paraphidippus marginatus Crosby & Bishop 1928
Metaphidippus marginatus Muma 1943
Paraphidippus marginatus Chickering 1944
Paraphidippus marginatus Kaston 1948
Eris marginatus Kaston 1972
Eris marginata Kaston 1973
Eris marginatus Prószynski 1976
Eris marginata Oehler 1980
Eris militaris Maddison 1986
Eris militaris Breene et al. 1993
Eris militaris Maddison 1996
Eris militaris Paquin & Dupérré 2003

Taxonomic References†

Banks, N. 1892. The spider fauna of the Upper Cayuga Lake Basin. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 1892: 11-81.

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.

Cambridge, F. O. P.-. 1901. Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2: 193-312.

Chamberlin, R. V. 1925. New North American spiders. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (4) 14: 105-142.

Chamberlin, R. V. 1924. Descriptions of new American and Chinese spiders, with notes on other Chinese species. Proc. U. S. nat. Mus. 63(13): 1-38.

Chickering, A. M. 1944. The Salticidae of Michigan. Pap. Michig. Acad. Sci. 29: 139-222.

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

Crosby, C. R. & S. C. Bishop. 1928. Araneae. In A list of the insects of New York. Mem. Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta. 101: 1034-1074.

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

Emerton, J. H. 1902. The common spiders of the United States. Boston, pp. 1-225.

Emerton, J. H. 1891. New England spiders of the family Attidae. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 8: 220-252.

Hentz, N. M. 1845. Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston J. nat. Hist. 5: 189-202.

Kaston, B. J. 1973. Four new species of Metaphidippus, with notes on related jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the eastern and central United States. Trans. Am. microsc. Soc. 92: 106-122.

Kaston, B. J. 1972. Some name changes in spiders. Ent. News 83: 105-106.

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

Keyserling, E. 1885. Neue Spinnen aus America. VI. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 34: 489-534.

Koch, C. L. 1846. Die Arachniden. Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band, pp. 1-234, Vierzehnter Band, pp. 1-88.

Maddison, W. 1986. Distinguishing the jumping spiders Eris militaris and Eris flava in North America (Araneae: Salticidae). Psyche, Camb. 93: 141-149.

Maddison, W. P. 1996. Pelegrina Franganillo and other jumping spiders formerly placed in the genus Metaphidippus (Araneae: Salticidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 154: 215-368.

Muma, M. H. 1943. Common spiders of Maryland. Natural History Society of Maryland, Baltimore, 179 pp.

Oehler, C. M. 1980. Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in the Cincinnati region of Ohio, including Butler, Clermont, Hamilton, and Warren Counties. Ohio biol. Surv. biol. Notes 13: 1-36.

Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.

Peckham, G. W. & E. G. Peckham. 1909. Revision of the Attidae of North America. Trans. Wiscons. Ac. Sci. Arts Let. 16(1): 355-655.

Peckham, G. W. & E. G. Peckham. 1888. Attidae of North America. Trans. Wiscons. Acad. Sci. Arts Let. 7: 1-104.

Peckham, G. W. & E. G. Peckham. 1886. Genera of the family Attidae: with a partial synonymy. Trans. Wiscons. Acad. Sci. Arts Let. 6: 255-342.

Petrunkevitch, A. 1911. A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greeland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 29: 1-791.

Prószynski, J. 1976. Studium systematyczno-zoogeograflczne nad rodzina Salticidae (Aranei) Regionów Palearktycznego i Nearktycznego. Wyzsza Szkola Pedagogiczna Siedlcach 6: 1-260.

†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/SALTICIDAE.html

Other Nearctic Members of Genus Eris C. L. Koch, 1846‡‡

E. flava (Peckham & Peckham, 1888) ...............USA to Hispaniola
E. floridana (Banks, 1904) ...............USA
E. rufa (C. L. Koch, 1865) ...............USA

‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution