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)
Image(s) of Habitus:
Credit: Dept. Biology, Samford University
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†
| Mygale fluviatilis Hentz 1850 |
| Myrmekiaphila fluviatilis Hentz 1850 |
| Myrmekiaphila foliata Atkinson 1886 |
| Bolostromus fluviatilis Banks 1892 |
| Myrmekiaphila fluviatilis Simon 1892 |
| Myrmekiaphila fluviatilis Comstock 1912 |
| Myrmekiaphila fluviatilis Bishop & Crosby 1926 |
| Myrmekiaphila fluviatilis Petrunkevitch 1929 |
Taxonomic References†
Atkinson, G., F. 1886. Descriptions of some new trapdoor spiders; their nests and food habits. Ent. Amer. 2: 109-117, 128-137.
Banks, N. 1892. Our Atypidae and Theraphosidae. Ent. News 3: 147-150.
Bishop, S. C. & C. R. Crosby. 1926. Notes on the spiders of the southeastern United States with descriptions of new species. Journ. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 41: 163-212.
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
Hentz, N. M. 1850. Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston J. nat. Hist. 6: 18-35, 271-295.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1929. Descriptions of new or inadequately known American spiders (Second paper). Ann. ent. Soc. Amer. 22: 511-524.
Simon, E. 1892. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris, 1: 1-256.
†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/CYRTAUCHENIIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Myrmekiaphila Atkinson, 1886‡‡
M. atkinsoni Simon, 1891 ...............USA
M. comstocki Bishop & Crosby, 1926 ...............USA
M. torreya Gertsch & Wallace, 1936 ...............USA
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution