The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/4397
Dysdera crocata C. L. Koch, 1838
FAMILY: DYSDERIDAE C. L. Koch, 1837
Genus: Dysdera Latreille, 1804
Species: Dysdera crocata C. L. Koch, 1838
Common Names
Family Common Name:
dysderid spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: Cosmopolitan
Nearctic States & Provinces:
CA CO ID OH PA SC UT
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
Natural History, Phenology & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:‡
(not yet recorded or unknown)
‡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: Berger, Joseph
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†
| Dysdera crocata C. L. Koch 1838 |
| Dysdera interrita Hentz 1842 |
| Dysdera coerulescens C. L. Koch 1847 |
| Dysdera gracilis Nicolet 1849 |
| Dysdera crocata Doblika 1853 |
| Dysdera rubicunda Blackwall 1864 |
| Dysdera wollastoni Blackwall 1864 |
| Dysdera balearica Thorell 1873 |
| Dysdera maurusia Thorell 1873 |
| Dysdera maurusia Dahl 1883 |
| Dysdera interrita Emerton 1890 |
| Dysdera crocata Becker 1896 |
| Dysdera crocota Chyzer & Kulczynski 1897 |
| Dysdera australiensis Rainbow 1900 |
| Dysdera interrita Emerton 1902 |
| Dysdera crocota Bösenberg & Strand 1906 |
| Dysdera crocata Simon 1910 |
| Dysdera crocata Simon 1914 |
| Dysdera cretica Roewer 1928 |
| Dysdera sternalis Roewer 1928 |
| Dysdera menozzii Caporiacco 1937 |
| Dysdera crocata Drensky 1938 |
| Dysdera interrita Comstock 1940 |
| Dysdera crocata Kaston 1948 |
| Dysdera crocata Locket & Millidge 1951 |
| Dysdera crocota Wiehle 1953 |
| Dysdera crocota Charitonov 1956 |
| Dysdera crocota Grasshoff 1959 |
| Dysdera crocata Braendegaard 1966 |
| Dysdera crocata Cooke 1966 |
| Dysdera crocata Hickman 1967 |
| Dysdera crocata Loksa 1969 |
| Dysdera crocata Tyschchenko 1971 |
| Dysdera crocata Cooke 1972 |
| Dysdera crocata Dresco 1973 |
| Dysdera crocota Paik 1978 |
| Dysdera palmensis Schmidt 1982 |
| Dysdera crocata Forster & Platnick 1985 |
| Dysdera crocata Roberts 1985 |
| Dysdera crocata Yoshikura 1987 |
| Dysdera crocota Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman 1988 |
| Dysdera crocota Heimer & Nentwig 1991 |
| Dysdera crocata Dunin 1992 |
| Dysdera crocota Wunderlich 1992 |
| Dysdera inaequuscapillata Wunderlich 1992 |
| Dysdera crocota Roberts 1995 |
| Dysdera crocota Wunderlich 1995 |
| Dysdera crocata Mcheidze 1997 |
| Dysdera crocota Arnedo, Oromí & Ribera 1997 |
| Dysdera crocota Roberts 1998 |
| Dysdera crocota Arnedo & Ribera 1999 |
| Dysdera crocota Song, Zhu & Chen 1999 |
| Dysdera crocota Arnedo, Oromí & Ribera 2000 |
| Dysdera crocata Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
| Dysdera crocata Trotta 2005 |
| Dysdera crocata Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman 2006 |
Taxonomic References†
Arnedo, M. A. & C. Ribera. 1999. Radiation in the genus Dysdera (Araneae, Dysderidae) in the Canary Islands: The island of Tenerife. J. Arachnol. 27: 604-662.
Arnedo, M. A., P. Orom¡ & C. Ribera. 2000. Systematics of the genus Dysdera (Araneae, Dysderidae) in the eastern Canary Islands. J. Arachnol. 28: 261-292.
Arnedo, M. A., P. Orom¡ & C. Ribera. 1997. Radiation of the genus Dysdera (Araneae, Haplogynae, Dysderidae) in the Canary Islands: The western islands. Zool. Scripta 25: 241-274.
Becker, L. 1896. Les arachnides de Belgique. Ann. Mus. Roy. Hist. nat. Belg. 12: 1-3788.
Blackwall, J. 1864. A history of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. London, Ray Society, 2: 175-384.
Blackwall, J. 1864. Notice of spiders, indigenous to the Salvages, received from the Barao do Castello de Paiva. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (3) 14: 174-180.
Bösenberg, W. & E. Strand. 1906. Japanische Spinnen. Abh. Senck. naturf. Ges. 30: 93-422.
Braendegaard, J. 1966. Edderkopper: Eller Spindlere I. Danmarks Fauna 72: 1-224.
Caporiacco, L. di. 1937. Un manipolo di araneidi della Tripolitania costiera. Monit. zool. ital. 48: 57-60.
Charitonov, D. E. 1956. Obzor paukov semeistva Dysderidae faunii SSSR. Uchen Zap. Molotovsk. gos. Univ. 10: 17-39.
Chyzer, C. & W. Kulczynski. 1897. Araneae hungariae. Budapest, 2: 151-366.
Comstock, J. H. 1940. The spider book, revised and edited by W. J. Gertsch. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, xi + 727 pp.
Cooke, J. A. L. 1972. A new genus and species of oonopid spider from Colombia with a curious method of embolus protection. Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc. 2: 90-92.
Cooke, J. A. L. 1966. Synopsis of the structure and function of the genitalia in Dysdera crocata (Araneae, Dysderidae). Senckenberg. biol. 47: 35-43.
Dahl, F. 1883. Analytische Bearbeitung der Spinnen Norddeutschlands mit einer anatomisch-biologischen Einleitung. Schrift. naturw. Ver. Schleswig-Holstein 5: 13-88.
Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. & P. R. Deeleman. 1988. Revision des Dysderinae (Araneae, Dysderidae), les especes mediterraneennes occidentales exceptees. Tijdschr. Ent. 131: 141-269.
Doblika, K. 1853. Beitrag zur Monographie des Spinnengeschlechtes Dysdera. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 3(Abh.): 115-124.
Drensky, P. 1938. Faounata na paiatzite (Araneae) w Beulgaria. II. Podrazred Arachnomorphae; I klon Tetrastica; semeystwa Filistatidae; Dysderidae i Oonopidae. Izw. tzar. prirod. Inst. Sofia 11: 81-106.
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Dunin, P. M. 1992. The spider family Dysderidae of the Caucasian fauna (Arachnida Aranei Haplogynae). Arthropoda Selecta 1(3): 35-76.
Emerton, J. H. 1902. The common spiders of the United States. Boston, pp. 1-225.
Emerton, J. H. 1890. New England spiders of the families Drassidae, Agalenidae and Dysderidae. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 8: 166-206.
Forster, R. R. & N. I. Platnick. 1985. A review of the austral spider family Orsolobidae (Arachnida, Araneae), with notes on the superfamily Dysderoidea. Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 181: 1-230.
Grasshoff, M. 1959. Dysdera-Arten von Inseln der Mittelmeergebietes (Arachn., Araneae). Senckenberg. biol. 40: 209-220.
Heimer, S. & W. Nentwig. 1991. Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Verlag Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp.
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†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/DYSDERIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Dysdera Latreille, 1804‡‡
No Other Species
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution