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BugGuide Gathering
Smoky Mountains
University of Tennessee Biological Field Station
August 8-10, 2008
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Genus Oxyopes

Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynes)
Family Oxyopidae (Lynx Spiders)
Genus Oxyopes
Explanation of Names
Oxyopes: Greek, means having sharp eyes.
Numbers
Aceistus Group: O. acleistus, aglossus, aureus, and occidens.
Apollo Group: O. apollo, artemis, cougar, felinus, lynx, pardus, and tridens.
Others: O. salticus, scalaris, and panther (panther-apollo group species?).
Print References
The Lynx Spiders Of North America, North Of Mexico (Araneae: Oxyopidae)
By Allen R. Brady
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Vol. 131, No. 13 Cambridge, Mass. September 30, 1964

Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual
By D. Ubick, P. Paquin, P.E. Cushing, and V. Roth (eds)
American Arachnological Society, 2005

The Spider Book by John Henry Comstock
Fifth printing 1980
ISBN 0-8014-0084-8

How to Know the Spiders by B. J. Kaston
Third Edition 1978
ISBN: 0697048985

Common Spiders Of The United States by James H. Emerton 1961
ISBN 486-20223-2

The Spiders Of The United States by Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, MD
Occasional Papers Of The Boston Society Of Natural History II 1875

Occasional Papers of the Florida State Collection of Arthropods Vol. 11 2004
Revision of the Jumping Spiders of the Genus Phidippus (Araneae: Salticidae)
By G. B. Edwards, Ph.D.
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services