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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Titanoecidae » Titanoeca

Genus Titanoeca

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · See Also · 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 Titanoecidae
Genus Titanoeca
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Genus was removed from family Amaurobiidae and placed in Titanoecidae by Lehtinen, 1967(1).
See the World Spider Catalog.
Numbers
4 species in BugGuide's range (North America north of Mexico).
Size
Body length (excluding legs) is about 4-8 millimeters.(2)
Range
T. americana - New England west to Ontario, west to Colorado and south to Texas and New Mexico, and northwestern Mexico.(3)
T. brunnea - New England south to Florida, west to Illinois and Arkansas.(3)
T. nigrella - BC south to Baja California & Durango, east to Manitoba & Louisiana.(3)
T. nivalis - western North America (including Alaska).(3)
See Also
Amaurobiidae, Kibramoa
Works Cited
1.Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha
Pekka Lehtinen. 1967. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468.
2.Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual
D. Ubick, P. Paquin, P.E. Cushing and V. Roth (eds). 2005. American Arachnological Society.
3.A revision of the Nearctic Amaurobiidae (Arachnida: Araneidae)
Robin Leech. 1972. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 84: 1-82.
Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 21 September, 2008 - 11:52pm
Additional contributions by Mandy Howe
Last updated 14 February, 2016 - 2:24am

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