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Species Gnaphosa parvula

Black ground - Gnaphosa parvula - female

Gnaphosa parvula--voucher image - Gnaphosa parvula - 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

Species parvula (Gnaphosa parvula)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

See the World Spider Catalog.

Explanation of Names

Author of the name: Banks. Year first published: 1896.

Identification

Palp

Epigynum

Range

Alaska to Nova Scotia and south to Colorado and West Virginia (1)

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the spider genus Gnaphosa (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in America Platnick, N. I. & Shadab, M. U. 1975. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 155: 1-66.

Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 10 June, 2009 - 8:47am
Additional contributions by cheins
Last updated 8 March, 2023 - 9:50am

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