Nearctic States & Provinces: AR GA SC
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/6583
Eidmannella pallida (Emerton, 1875)
FAMILY: NESTICIDAE Simon, 1894
Genus: Eidmannella Roewer, 1935
Species: Eidmannella pallida (Emerton, 1875)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
cave cobweb spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: Cosmopolitan
Nearctic States & Provinces:
AR GA SC
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:
(images not yet available)
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†
| Eidmannella pallida Emerton 1875 |
| Microneta gigantea Banks 1892 |
| Nesticus cavicola Banks 1898 |
| Pocobletus mexicanus Banks 1898 |
| Theridion subterraneum Banks 1898 |
| Enoplognatha pallida Emerton 1914 |
| Nesticus suggerens Chamberlin 1924 |
| Centromerus ovigerus Petrunkevitch 1930 |
| Theonoe striatipes Petrunkevitch 1930 |
| Eidmannella attae Roewer 1935 |
| Nesticus pallidus Bryant 1940 |
| Nesticus pallidus Kaston 1948 |
| Eidmannella pallida Millidge & Locket 1955 |
| Nesticus pallidus Levi 1957 |
| Nesticus dragani Dumitrescu 1973 |
| Nesticus pallidus van Helsdingen 1973 |
| Eidmannella pallida Locket, Millidge & Merrett 1974 |
| Eidmannella suggerens Gertsch 1977 |
| Nesticus pallidus Dumitrescu 1979 |
| Nesticus pallidus Nishikawa 1982 |
| Eidmannella pallida Gertsch 1984 |
| Eidmannella pallida Roth 1985 |
| Nesticus pallidus Yaginuma 1986 |
| Eidmannella pallida Wunderlich 1992 |
| Eidmannella pallida Breene et al. 1993 |
| Eidmannella pallida Roth 1994 |
| Eidmannella pallida Ledoux & Hallé 1995 |
| Eidmannella pallida Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
| Eidmannella pallidae Agnarsson 2004 |
Taxonomic References†
Agnarsson, I. 2004. Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae). Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 141: 447-626.
Banks, N. 1898. Some new spiders. Canad. Ent. 30: 185-188.
Banks, N. 1898. Arachnida from Baja California and other parts of Mexico. Proc. Californ. Acad. Sci. (3) 1: 205-308.
Banks, N. 1892. The spider fauna of the Upper Cayuga Lake Basin. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 1892: 11-81.
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.
Bryant, E. B. 1940. Cuban spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 86: 247-554.
Chamberlin, R. V. 1924. Descriptions of new American and Chinese spiders, with notes on other Chinese species. Proc. U. S. nat. Mus. 63(13): 1-38.
Dumitrescu, M. 1979. La monographie des représentants du genre Nesticus des grottes de Roumania. Ière note. Trav. Inst. Spéol. Emile Racovitza 18: 53-84.
Dumitrescu, M. 1973. Nesticus (Gondwanonesticus) dragani n.sgen., n.sp.-famille Nesticidae. Rés. Exp. biospéol. Cubano-Roum. Cuba 1: 295-302.
Emerton, J. H. 1914. New spiders from the neighborhood of Ithaca. Jour. New York ent. Soc. 22: 262-264.
Emerton, J. H. 1875. Notes on spiders from Caves in Kentucky, Virginia and Indiana. Amer. Natural. 9: 278-281.
Gertsch, W. J. 1984. The spider family Nesticidae (Araneae) in North America, Central America, and the West Indies. Bull. Texas Meml Mus. 31: 1-91.
Gertsch, W. J. 1977. Report on cavernicole and epigean spiders from the Yucatan peninsula. Bull. Ass. Mex. Cave Stud. 6: 103-131.
Helsdingen, P. J. van. 1973. A recapitulation of the Nearctic species of Centromerus Dahl (Araneida, Linyphiidae) with remarks on Tunagyna debilis (Banks). Zool. Verh. Leiden 124: 1-45.
Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.
Ledoux, J.-C. & N. Hallé. 1995. Araignées de l'île Rapa (îles Australes, Polynésie). Revue arachnol. 11: 1-15.
Levi, H. W. 1957. The spider genera Enoplognatha, Theridion, and Paidisca in America north of Mexico (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 112: 1-124.
Locket, G. H., A. F. Millidge & P. Merrett. 1974. British Spiders, Volume III. Ray Society, London, 315 pp.
Millidge, A. F. & G. H. Locket. 1955. New and rare British spiders. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (12) 8: 161-173.
Nishikawa, Y. 1982. Araneae of Minami-Iwojima Island. Conserv. Rep. Minami-Iwojima Wilderness Area 1982: 373-376.
Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1930. The spiders of Porto Rico. Part two. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 30: 159-356.
Roewer, C. F. 1935. Zwei myrmecophile Spinnen-Arten Brasiliens. Veröff. deuts. Kolon-. Ubersee-Mus. Bremen 1: 193-197.
Roth, V. D. 1994. Spider Genera of North America, with Keys to Families and Genera, and a Guide to Literature, third edition. Am. Arachnol. Soc., Gainesville, 203 pp.
Roth, V. D. 1985. Spider genera of North America. American Arachnological Society, Gainesville, Florida.
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.
†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/NESTICIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Eidmannella Roewer, 1935‡‡
E. bullata Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
E. delicata Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
E. nasuta Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
E. reclusa Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
E. rostrata Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
E. tuckeri Cokendolpher & Reddell, 2001 ...............USA
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution