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Species Gnaphosa sericata

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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 Gnaphosidae (Ground Spiders)

Genus Gnaphosa

Species sericata (Gnaphosa sericata)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

See the World Spider Catalog.

Identification

Palp

Epigynum

Range

Utah to Michigan and NewYork, south to Mexico, Florida, and Cuba.(1)

Works Cited

1.	Insects and Arachnids of Canada Part 19: The ground spiders of Canada and Alaska : Araneae: Gnaphosidae Norman Platnick & Charles Dondale. 1992. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1875: 1-297.

Contributed by John F. Carr on 23 March, 2009 - 12:24pm
Additional contributions by cheins, Laura P.
Last updated 8 March, 2023 - 12:09pm

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