Nearctic States & Provinces: NC OK SC VA
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/36565
Thiodina sylvana (Hentz, 1846)
FAMILY: SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841
Genus: Thiodina Simon, 1900
Species: Thiodina sylvana (Hentz, 1846)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
jumping spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: USA to Panama
Nearctic States & Provinces:
NC OK SC VA
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: Bartlett, Troy
Credit: Barnes, Jay
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 sylvanus Hentz 1846 |
| Thiodina sylvana Hentz 1846 |
| Attus retiarius Hentz 1850 |
| Plexippus puerperus Peckham & Peckham 1885 |
| Plexippus puerperus Peckham & Peckham 1888 |
| Dendryphantes retarius Banks 1898 |
| Colonus puerperus F. O. P.-Cambridge 1901 |
| Metaphidippus retiarius F. O. P.-Cambridge 1901 |
| Thiodina puerpera Simon 1901 |
| Thiodina retarius Banks 1904 |
| Thiodina sylvana Peckham & Peckham 1909 |
| Thiodina inquies Kraus 1955 |
| Thiodina sylvana Oehler 1980 |
| Thiodina sylvana Breene et al. 1993 |
| Thiodina sylvana Richman & Vetter 2004 |
Taxonomic References†
Banks, N. 1904. Some Arachnida from California. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (3) 3: 331-376.
Banks, N. 1898. Arachnida from Baja California and other parts of Mexico. Proc. Californ. Acad. Sci. (3) 1: 205-308.
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.
Hentz, N. M. 1850. Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston J. nat. Hist. 6: 18-35, 271-295.
Hentz, N. M. 1846. Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston J. nat. Hist. 5: 352-370.
Kraus, O. 1955. Spinnen aus El Salvador (Arachnoidea, Araneae). Abh. senckenb. naturforsch. Ges. 493: 1-112.
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.
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. 1885. On some new genera and species of Attidae from the eastern part of Guatamala. Proc. nat. Hist. Soc. Wiscons. 1885: 62-86.
Richman, D. B. & R. S. Vetter. 2004. A review of the spider genus Thiodina (Araneae, Salticidae) in the United States. J. Arachnol. 32: 418-431.
Simon, E. 1901. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris, 2: 381-668.
†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 Thiodina Simon, 1900‡‡
T. hespera Richman & Vetter, 2004 ...............USA, Mexico
T. puerpera (Hentz, 1846) ...............USA
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution