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: Nieuwenhuys, Ed
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†
| Araneus cellulanus Clerck 1757 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Clerck 1757 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Clerck 1758 |
| Aranea cellulana Olivier 1789 |
| Aranea cellularia Meyer 1790 |
| Aranea crypticola Walckenaer 1802 |
| Aranea crypticola Latreille 1804 |
| Theridion crypticolens Walckenaer 1805 |
| Linyphia cellulanus Sundevall 1831 |
| Linyphia cellulanus Sundevall 1832 |
| Linyphia pallidula Blackwall 1834 |
| Meta cellulana C. L. Koch 1841 |
| Linyphia crypticolens Walckenaer 1842 |
| Theridium cellulanum Thorell 1858 |
| Linyphia crypticolens Blackwall 1864 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Thorell 1869 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Simon 1881 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Chyzer & Kulczynski 1894 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Becker 1896 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Bösenberg 1901 |
| Nesticus noctivaga Simon 1913 |
| Theridion terrestre Emerton 1924 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Emerton 1926 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Reimoser 1929 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Simon 1929 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Roewer 1931 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Kratochvíl 1933 |
| Nesticus cellulanus noctivaga Kratochvíl 1933 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Caporiacco 1934 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Bryant 1941 |
| Theridion terrestrellum Roewer 1942 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Kaston 1948 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Locket & Millidge 1951 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Locket & Millidge 1953 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Wiehle 1953 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Bristowe 1958 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Dresco 1966 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Brignoli 1971 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Miller 1971 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Palmgren 1974 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Dumitrescu 1979 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Ribera 1979 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Dumitrescu 1980 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Lehtinen & Saaristo 1980 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Thaler 1981 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Heimer 1982 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Gertsch 1984 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Roberts 1985 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Wunderlich 1986 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Bürgis 1989 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Coddington 1990 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Heimer & Nentwig 1991 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Huber 1993 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Roberts 1995 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Jäger 1998 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Roberts 1998 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Agnarsson 2004 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Almquist 2005 |
| Nesticus cellulanus Trotta 2005 |
Taxonomic References†
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Clerck, C. 1757. Svenska spindlar, uti sina hufvud-slågter indelte samt under några och sextio särskildte arter beskrefne och med illuminerade figurer uplyste. Stockholmiae, 154 pp.
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.
Dresco, E. 1966. Étude de quelques espèces d'araignées du genre Nesticus (fam. Nesticidae). Annls Spéléol. 21: 795-813.
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Huber, B. A. 1993. Genital mechanics and sexual selection in the spider Nesticus cellulanus (Araneae: Nesticidae). Can. J. Zool. 71: 2437-2447.
Jäger, P. 1998. Weitere Funde von Nesticus eremita (Araneae: Nesticidae) in Süddeutschland mit Angaben zur Taxonomie im Vergleich zu N. cellulanus. Arachnol. Mitt. 15: 13-20.
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†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 Nesticus Thorell, 1869‡‡
N. archeri Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
N. barri Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
N. barrowsi Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
N. bishopi Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
N. brimleyi Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
N. carolinensis (Bishop, 1950) ...............USA
N. carteri Emerton, 1875 ...............USA
N. cooperi Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
N. crosbyi Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
N. dilutus Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
N. furtivus Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
N. georgia Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
N. gertschi Coyle & McGarity, 1992 ...............USA
N. holsingeri Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
N. jonesi Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
N. mimus Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
N. nasicus Coyle & McGarity, 1992 ...............USA
N. paynei Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
N. pecki Hedin & Dellinger, 2005 ...............USA
N. potterius (Chamberlin, 1933) ...............USA
N. reclusus Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
N. secretus Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
N. sheari Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
N. silvanus Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
N. silvestrii Fage, 1929 ...............USA
N. sodanus Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
N. stupkai Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
N. stygius Gertsch, 1984 ...............USA
N. tennesseensis (Petrunkevitch, 1925) ...............USA
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution