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Genus Elaver

Elaver spider - Elaver excepta spider - Elaver Elaver excepta - male Elaver sp.? - Elaver Spider - Elaver sac spider - Elaver excepta - female sac spider - Elaver - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Clubionidae (Sac Spiders)
Genus Elaver
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Numbers
There are 8 species in BugGuide's range. (US & Canada)
Identification
Femur I with two distal prolateral spines, abdomen usually with distinct chevrons. (1)
Range
Eastern USA & extreme Southeastern Canada west to Montana and Arizona. (1)

Ranges from Saturnino & Bonaldo 2015(2)
achuca - southern AZ
chisosa - southern TX (Big Bend National Park)
excepta - Throughout the eastern US into very southern Ontario (Pelee Island in Lake Erie). Western edge of US range is approximately the 97th meridian west.
kohlsi - MT
madera - southern AZ
mulaiki - NE, southern TX
texana - southern TX
wheeleri (formerly dorothea) - southern TX
Works Cited
1.Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual
D. Ubick, P. Paquin, P.E. Cushing and V. Roth (eds). 2005. American Arachnological Society.
2.Taxonomic review of the New World spider genus Elaver O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898 (Araneae, Clubionidae)
Regiane Saturnino, Alexandre Bragio Bonaldo. 2015. Zootaxa 4045 (1): 001–119.