Nearctic States & Provinces: CT
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)
Image(s) of Habitus:
Credit: Sollfors, Stefan
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:
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Synonyms and Chresonyms†
| Aranea furcata Villers 1789 |
| Ero furcata Villers 1789 |
| Theridion variegatum Brullé 1832 |
| Theridion thoracicum Wider 1834 |
| Ero variegata C. L. Koch 1836 |
| Theridion callens Blackwall 1841 |
| Theridion variegatum Blackwall 1864 |
| Ero variegata Menge 1866 |
| Ero atomaria Ohlert 1867 |
| Ero thoracica Thorell 1870 |
| Ero furcata Simon 1881 |
| Ero furcata Keyserling 1886 |
| Ero furcata Chyzer & Kulczynski 1894 |
| Ero furcata Becker 1896 |
| Ero furcata Bösenberg 1902 |
| Ero furcata Simon 1932 |
| Ero furcata Locket & Millidge 1953 |
| Ero furcata Wiehle 1953 |
| Ero furcata Yaginuma & Nishikawa 1969 |
| Ero furcata Locket, Millidge & Merrett 1974 |
| Ero furcata Palmgren 1974 |
| Ero furcata Shinkai 1978 |
| Ero furcata Canard 1982 |
| Ero furcata Roberts 1985 |
| Ero furcata Heimer 1986 |
| Ero furcata Wunderlich 1986 |
| Ero furcata Yaginuma 1986 |
| Ero furcata Bürgis 1989 |
| Ero furcata Chikuni 1989 |
| Ero furcata Coddington 1990 |
| Ero furcata Heimer & Nentwig 1991 |
| Ero furcata Roberts 1995 |
| Ero furcata Roberts 1998 |
| Ero furcata Thaler, van Harten & Knoflach 2004 |
| Ero furcata Almquist 2005 |
Taxonomic References†
Almquist, S. 2005. Swedish Araneae, part 1: families Atypidae to Hahniidae (Linyphiidae excluded). Insect Syst. Ecol., Suppl. 62: 1-284.
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. 1841. The difference in the number of eyes with which spiders are provided proposed as the basis of their distribution into tribes; with descriptions of newly discovered species and the characters of a new family and three new genera of spiders. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 18: 601-670.
Bösenberg, W. 1902. Die Spinnen Deutschlands. II-IV. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 14: 97-384.
Brullé, A. 1832. Expédition scientifique de Morée. Paris, tome III, 1re partie: Zoologie, 2me section: Des Animaux articulé (Araneae, pp. 51-57, pl. 28).
Bürgis, H. 1989. Bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde vom Heidenberg bei Lautertal-Raidelbach (nordwestlicher Odenwald) 3. Der Spinnenfresser Ero furcata (Villers 1789) (Araneae: Mimetidae). Hessische faunist. Briefe 9: 2-10.
Canard, A. 1982. Les araignées du Massif Armoricain II. Les Mimetides. Bull. Soc. scient. Bretagne 54: 77-89.
Chikuni, Y. 1989. Pictorial Encyclopedia of Spiders in Japan. Kaisei-sha Publ. Co., Tokyo, 310 pp.
Chyzer, C. & W. Kulczynski. 1894. Araneae Hungariae. Budapest, 2: 1-151.
Coddington, J. A. 1990. Ontogeny and homology in the male palpus of orb-weaving spiders and their relatives, with comments on phylogeny (Araneoclada: Araneoidea, Deinopoidea). Smithson. Contrib. Zool. 496: 1-52.
Heimer, S. 1986. Notes on the spider family Mimetidae with description of a new genus from Australia (Arachnida, Araneae). Ent. Abh. Mus. Tierk. Dresden 49: 113-137.
Heimer, S. & W. Nentwig. 1991. Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Verlag Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp.
Keyserling, E. 1886. Die Spinnen Amerikas. Theridiidae. Nürnberg, 2: 1-295.
Koch, C. L. 1836. Arachniden. In Herrich-Schäffer, G. A. W., Deutschlands Insekten. Heft 134-141.
Locket, G. H. & A. F. Millidge. 1953. British spiders. Ray Society, London, 2: 1-449.
Locket, G. H., A. F. Millidge & P. Merrett. 1974. British Spiders, Volume III. Ray Society, London, 315 pp.
Menge, A. 1866. Preussische Spinnen. Erste Abtheilung. Schrift. naturf. Ges. Danzig (N.F.) 1: 1-152
Ohlert, E. 1867. Die Araneiden oder echten Spinnen der Provinz Preussen. Leipzig, pp. 1-172.
Palmgren, P. 1974. Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands und Ostfennoskandiens. IV. Argiopidae, Tetragnathidae und Mimetidae. Fauna Fenn. 24: 1-70.
Roberts, M. J. 1998. Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp.
Roberts, M. J. 1995. Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp.
Roberts, M. J. 1985. The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1: Atypidae to Theridiosomatidae. Harley Books, Colchester, England.
Shinkai, E. 1978. Spiders of Hachioji City, Tokyo 1. List and distribution. Mem. Educ. Inst. Private Schools Japan 56: 79-109.
Simon, E. 1932. Les arachnides de France. Tome VI. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae; 4e partie. Paris, 6: 773-978.
Simon, E. 1881. Les arachnides de France. Paris, 5: 1-180.
Thaler, K., A. van Harten & B. Knoflach. 2004. Pirate spiders of the genus Ero C.L. Koch from southern Europe, Yemen, and Ivory Coast, with two new species (Arachnida, Araneae, Mimetidae). Denisia 13: 359-368.
Thorell, T. 1870. Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. Part I. Uppsala, pp. 1-96.
Villers, C. de. 1789. Caroli Linnaei entomologia, faunae Suecicae descriptionibus aucta. Lugduni, 4: 86-130.
Wider, 1834. Beschreibung der Arachniden. In Reuss, A., Zoologischen miscellen. Mus. Senck. (Abh.) 1: 195-282.
Wiehle, H. 1953. Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae) IX: Orthognatha-Cribellatae-Haplogynae-Entelegynae (Pholcidae, Zodariidae, Oxyopidae, Mimetidae, Nesticidae). Tierwelt Deutschlands 42: i-viii, 1-150.
Wunderlich, J. 1986. Spinnenfauna gestern und heute: Fossile Spinnen in Bernstein und ihre heute lebenden Verwandten. Quelle & Meyer, Wiesbaden.
Yaginuma, T. 1986. Spiders of Japan in color (new ed.). Hoikusha Publ. Co., Osaka.
Yaginuma, T. & Y. Nishikawa. 1969. Spider survey on Mt. Ontake, Gifu Prefecture, in 1968. Ann. Rep. JIBP-CT-S Fiscal Year 1968 43: 71-87.
†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/MIMETIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Ero C. L. Koch, 1836‡‡
E. aphana (Walckenaer, 1802) ...............Palearctic (St. Helena, Queensland, introduced)
E. cambridgei Kulczynski, 1911 ...............Palearctic
E. canionis Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 ...............USA
E. leonina (Hentz, 1850) ...............USA
E. lodingi Archer, 1941 ...............USA
E. pensacolae Ivie & Barrows, 1935 ...............USA
E. tuberculata (De Geer, 1778) ...............Palearctic
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution