Nearctic States & Provinces: NC SC
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/3927
Spermophora senoculata (Dugès, 1836)
shortbodied cellar spider
FAMILY: PHOLCIDAE C. L. Koch, 1851
Genus: Spermophora Hentz, 1841
Species: Spermophora senoculata (Dugès, 1836)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
cellar or daddylongleg spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
shortbodied cellar spider
Distribution
Global Distribution: Holarctic
Nearctic States & Provinces:
NC SC
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
Natural History, Phenology & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:‡
space web builders
‡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: Pfeiffer, Kevin
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†
| Pholcus senoculatus Dugès 1836 |
| Spermophora senoculata Dugès 1836 |
| Spermophora meridionalis Hentz 1841 |
| Pholcus quadri-punctatus Lucas 1846 |
| Rachus quadripunctatus Walckenaer 1847 |
| Oophora meridionalis Hentz 1850 |
| Pholcus sexoculatus Simon 1866 |
| Rachus quadrioculatus Canestrini 1868 |
| Spermophora meridionalis Emerton 1882 |
| Spermophora senoculata Chyzer & Kulczynski 1891 |
| Spermophora meridionalis Petrunkevitch 1910 |
| Simonius typicus Kishida 1913 |
| Spermophora senoculata Simon 1914 |
| Spermophora topolia Roewer 1928 |
| Comaroma ressenensis Drensky 1929 |
| Comaroma resnensis Drensky 1935 |
| Spermophora meridionalis Gertsch 1939 |
| Spermophora topolia Hadjissarantos 1940 |
| Simonius typicus Shinkai 1969 |
| Spermophora senoculata Dresco & Hubert 1969 |
| Spermophora senoculata Yaginuma 1974 |
| Spermophora senoculata Yaginuma 1975 |
| Spermophora senoculata Miller & Zitnanská 1976 |
| Spermophora senoculata Yaginuma 1986 |
| Spermophora senoculata Chikuni 1989 |
| Spermophora senoculata Heimer & Nentwig 1991 |
| Spermophora senoculata Wunderlich 1992 |
| Spermophora senoculata Paik 1996 |
| Spermophora senoculata Song, Zhu & Chen 1999 |
| Spermophora senoculata Szinetár, Kenyeres & Kovács 1999 |
| Spermophora senoculata Huber 2000 |
| Spermophora senoculata Deltshev & Blagoev 2001 |
| Spermophora senoculata Senglet 2001 |
| Spermophora senoculata Huber 2002 |
| Spermophora senoculata Kim & Cho 2002 |
| Spermophora senoculata Namkung 2002 |
| Spermophora senoculata Deltshev 2003 |
| Spermophora senoculata Lee & Kim 2003 |
| Spermophora senoculata Namkung 2003 |
| Spermophora senoculata Trotta 2005 |
| Spermophora senoculata Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman 2006 |
Taxonomic References†
Canestrini, G. 1868. Nuove aracnidi italiani. Annuar. Soc. nat. Modena. 3: 190-206.
Chikuni, Y. 1989. Pictorial Encyclopedia of Spiders in Japan. Kaisei-sha Publ. Co., Tokyo, 310 pp.
Chyzer, C. & W. Kulczynski. 1891. Araneae Hungariae. Budapest, 1: 1-170.
Deltshev, C. 2003. A critical review of the spider species (Araneae) described by P. Drensky in the period 1915-1942 from the Balkans. Ber. nat.-med. Verein Innsbruck 90 135-150.
Deltshev, C. & G. Blagoev. 2001. A critical check list of Bulgarian spiders (Araneae). Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc. 12: 110-138.
Drensky, P. 1935. Paiatzi (Araneae) seubirani ot Dr Stanko Karaman w Jougoslavia i osobeno w Makedonia. Izw. tzar. prirod. Inst. Sofia 8: 97-110.
Drensky, P. 1929. Paiatzi (Aranea) ot tzentralna i iougo-zapadna Makedonia. Spis. beulg. Akad. naouk. 39: 1-76.
Dresco, E. & M. Hubert. 1969. Araneae speluncarum Italiae I. Fragm. ent. 6: 167-181.
Dugès, A. 1836. Observations sur les aranéides. Ann. sci. nat., Zool. (2) 6: 159-219.
Emerton, J. H. 1882. New England spiders of the family Theridiidae. Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci. 6: 1-86.
Gertsch, W. J. 1939. A new genus in the Pholcidae. Amer. Mus. Novit. 1033: 1-4.
Hadjissarantos, H. 1940. Les araignées de l'Attique. Athens, 132 pp.
Heimer, S. & W. Nentwig. 1991. Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Verlag Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp.
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. 1841. Description of an American spider, constituting a new sub-genus of the tribe Inaequiteloe of Latreille. Sillimans J. Sci. Arts 41: 115-117.
Huber, B. A. 2002. Functional morphology of the genitalia in the spider Spermophora senoculata (Pholcidae, Araneae). Zool. Anz. 241 105-116.
Huber, B. A. 2000. New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): A revision at generic level. Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 254: 1-348.
Jocqué, R. & A. S. Dippenaar-Schoeman. 2006. Spider Families of the World. Musée Royal de l'Afrique Central, Tervuren, 336 pp.
Kim, J. P. & J. H. Cho. 2002. Spider: Natural Enemy & Resources. Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), 424 pp.
Kishida, K. 1913. Japanese spiders (6). Kagaku-sekai 7: 1020-1024.
Lee, J. Y. & J. P. Kim. 2003. A taxonomic study of family Pholcidae C. L. Koch, 1851 (Arachnida: Araneae) from Korea. Korean Arachnol. 19 103-132.
Lucas, H. 1846. Histoire naturelle des animaux articules. In Exploration scientifique de l'Algerie pendant les annees 1840, 1841, 1842 publiee par ordre du Gouvernement et avec le concours d'une commission academique. Paris, Sciences physiques, Zoologie, 1: 89-271
Miller, F. & O. Zitnansk . 1976. Einige bemerkenswerte Spinnen aus der Slowakei. Biologia Bratisl. 31: 81-88.
Namkung, J. 2003. The Spiders of Korea, 2nd. ed. Kyo-Hak Publ. Co., Seoul, 648 pp.
Namkung, N. 2002. The spiders of Korea. Kyo-Hak Publishing Co., Seoul, 648 pp.
Paik, K. Y. 1996. Korean spiders of the genus Spermophora Hentz, 1841 (Araneae: Pholcidae). Korean Arachnol. 12(1): 21-27.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1910. Some new or little known American Spiders. Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 19: 205-224.
Roewer, C. F. 1928. Araneae. In Zoologische Streifzüge in Attika, Morea, und besonders auf der Insel Kreta, II. Abh. naturw. Ver. Bremen 27: 92-123.
Senglet, A. 2001. Copulatory mechanisms in Hoplopholcus, Stygopholcus (revalidated), Pholcus, Spermophora and Spermophorides (Araneae, Pholcidae), with additional faunistic and taxonomic data. Bull. Soc. ent. Suisse 74: 43-
Shinkai, E. 1969. Spiders of Tokyo. Arachnological Society of East Asia, Osaka, 65 pp.
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. 1866. Monographie des espèces européennes du genre Pholcus. Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. 6: 117-124.
Song, D. X., M. S. Zhu & J. Chen. 1999. The Spiders of China. Hebei Sci. Technol. Publ. House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp.
Szinet r, C., Z. Kenyeres & H. Kov cs. 1999. Adatok a Balaton-felvidék néh ny településének épületlakó pókfaun j hoz. Folia Mus. hist.-nat. Bakonyiensis 14: 159-170.
Trotta, A. 2005. Introduzione al ragni italiani (Arachnida Araneae). Memorie Soc. entomol. ital. 83: 3-178.
Walckenaer, C. A. 1847. Histoire naturelles des Insects. Aptères. Paris, 4: 1-623 (Araneae, pp. 365-564).
Wunderlich, J. 1992. Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Biogeographie und Evolution. Beitr. Araneol. 1: 1-619.
Yaginuma, T. 1986. Spiders of Japan in color (new ed.). Hoikusha Publ. Co., Osaka.
Yaginuma, T. 1975. A note on a pholcid spider, Spermophora senoculata, from Japan. Atypus 63: 20-25.
Yaginuma, T. 1974. The spider fauna of Japan (IV). Fac. Let. Rev. Otemon Gakuin Univ. 8: 169-173.
†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/PHOLCIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Spermophora Hentz, 1841‡‡
No Other Species
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution