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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Ground Spiders (Gnaphosidae) » Gnaphosa

Genus Gnaphosa

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Print References
Fat Spider - Gnaphosa Adult Male - Gnaphosa borea - male Ground Spider - Gnaphosa muscorum - female Wolf spider at top of Kings Ravine, Mt. Adams, NH - Gnaphosa Ground spider - Gnaphosa sericata - male Gnaphosa parvula--voucher image - Gnaphosa parvula - male G. dentata male - Gnaphosa dentata - male Gnaphosa sericata - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Gnaphosidae (Ground Spiders)
Genus Gnaphosa
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
See the World Spider Catalog.
Numbers
There are 20 species in BugGuide's range.
Identification
Members of this genus have a serrated keel on the retromargin of each chelicera.
Range
Exact distribution within these countries will be added when time permits.

- G. altudona
- G.antipola - USA, Canada
- G.borea - Holarctic
- G.brumalis - USA, Canada, Alaska
- G.californica - USA, Canada
- G.clara - North America
- G.dentata
- G.fontinalis - USA, Mexico
- G.hirsutipes - USA, Mexico
- G.maritima - USA, Mexico
- G.microps - Holarctic
- G.muscorum - Holarctic
- G.orites - Holarctic
- G.parvula - USA, Canada, Alaska
- G.salsa - USA, Mexico
- G.saxosa
- G.sericata - USA & south
- G.snohomish - USA, Canada
- G.synthetica - USA, Mexico
- G.utahana
Print References
Ovcharenko, V. I. & N.I. Platnick. 1998. Taxonomic notes on the ground spider genus Gnaphosa (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). American Museum novitates; no. 3234. http://hdl.handle.net/2246/3364
Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 10 June, 2008 - 9:42am
Additional contributions by cheins, Bbarnd, jsloan
Last updated 13 June, 2022 - 2:17pm

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