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Species Amaurobius borealis

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynae)

Family Amaurobiidae (Hacklemesh Weavers)

Genus Amaurobius

Species borealis (Amaurobius borealis)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

See the World Spider Catalog.

Explanation of Names

Emerton, 1909

Identification

Eye arrangement

Left palp (ventral/dorsal/distal-ventral)

Epigynum

Range

Newfoundland west to British Columbia in Canada; Maine south to New York and west to Minnesota in the United States. (1)

Habitat

Under logs or small stones or deep in the leaf litter. (1)

Season

April to October with peak in May. (1)

Food

Black Flies are indicated by Leech, 1972 (1) but will probably eat any small arthropods.

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the Nearctic Amaurobiidae (Arachnida: Araneidae) Robin Leech. 1972. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 84: 1-82.

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 1 November, 2009 - 9:29am
Additional contributions by cheins, jsloan
Last updated 4 January, 2023 - 7:10pm

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