Natural History, Phenology & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:‡
space web builders
‡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: Bryant, Peter
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†
| Argyrodes nephilae Taczanowski 1873 |
| Argyrodes nephilae O. P.-Cambridge 1880 |
| Argyrodes nephilae Keyserling 1884 |
| Argyrodes cambridgei Keyserling 1891 |
| Argyrodes nephilae Emerton 1902 |
| Argyrodes rostratus Banks 1908 |
| Argyrodes banksi Petrunkevitch 1911 |
| Argyrodes nephilae Petrunkevitch 1930 |
| Conopistha cambridgei Bryant 1942 |
| Argyrodes nephilae Exline & Levi 1962 |
Taxonomic References†
Banks, N. 1908. New species of Theridiidae. Canad. Ent. 40: 205-208.
Bryant, E. B. 1942. Notes on the spiders of the Virgin Islands. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 89: 317-366.
Cambridge, O. P.-. 1880. On some new and little known spiders of the genus Argyrodes. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1880: 320-344.
Emerton, J. H. 1902. The common spiders of the United States. Boston, pp. 1-225.
Exline, H. & H. W. Levi. 1962. American spiders of the genus Argyrodes (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 127: 75-204.
Keyserling, E. 1891. Die Spinnen Amerikas. Brasilianische Spinnen. Nürnberg, 3: 1-278.
Keyserling, E. 1884. Die Spinnen Amerikas II. Theridiidae. Nürnberg, 1: 1-222.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1930. The spiders of Porto Rico. Part two. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 30: 159-356.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1911. A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greeland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 29: 1-791.
Taczanowski, L. 1873. Les aranéides de la Guyane française. Horae Soc. ent. Ross. 9: 113-150, 261-286.
†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/THERIDIIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Argyrodes Simon, 1864‡‡
A. argentatus O. P.-Cambridge, 1880 ...............China, East Indies, Hawaii
A. elevatus Taczanowski, 1873 ...............USA to Argentina, Galapagos Is.
A. hawaiiensis Simon, 1900 ...............Hawaii
A. pluto Banks, 1906 ...............USA, Mexico, Jamaica
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution