Genus Trachelas

Classification · Numbers · Range · Print References

Sowbug Killer or Brown Recluse? - Trachelas

Trachelas pacificus? - Trachelas pacificus - female

Cream colored egg case shot through the glass - Trachelas - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynes)

Family Corinnidae (Antmimics and Ground Sac Spiders)

Genus Trachelas

Numbers

8 species in the U.S.

Range

huachucanus -

mexicanus -

organatus -

pacificus -

similis -

sinuosus -

tranquillus - New England south to Georgia and Alabama and west to Kansas and Minnesota.

volutus -

Print References

digitallibrary.amnh.org - Platnick and Shadab, 1974, A revision of the tranquillus and speciosus groups of the spider genus Trachelas (Araneae, Clubionidae) in North and Central America.

digitallibrary.amnh.org - Platnick and Shadab, 1974, A revision of the bispinosus and bicolor groups of the spider genus Trachelas (Araneae, Clubionidae) in North and Central America and the West Indies.

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 30 July, 2005 - 5:24pm
Additional contributions by Lynette, Jeff Hollenbeck, Chuck Entz, kschnei
Last updated 2 October, 2009 - 8:52am

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