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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Cobweb Spiders (Theridiidae) » Phoroncidia » Phoroncidia americana

Species Phoroncidia americana

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Theridiidae (Cobweb Spiders)
Genus Phoroncidia
Species americana (Phoroncidia americana)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Oronota americana - Levi, 1955c: 334, f. 1-8 (mf).
Ulesanis americana - Levi & Levi, 1962: 57, f. 244-245 (m).
Identification
Abdomen with a series of humps, eye region projecting out above the clypeus. (1)
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.
Contributed by tom murray on 6 September, 2007 - 9:21pm
Additional contributions by Lynette Elliott
Last updated 9 February, 2012 - 4:45pm

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