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Species Castianeira amoena

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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 Corinnidae (Antmimics and Ground Sac Spiders)
Genus Castianeira
Species amoena (Castianeira amoena)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Explanation of Names
Castianeira amoena (C. L. Koch, 1841)
Identification
Epigynum
Range
North Carolina west to Kansas and south to Florida and Texas (1)
Print References
Spiders of the Eastern United States (2)--according to comments here, on page 263 of this reference, the image labeled as Castianeira amoena is actually C. gertschi.
Works Cited
1.The Spider Subfamily Castianeirinae of North and Central America
J. Reiskind. 1969. Bull. Mus. of Comp. Zool. Vol 138: 163-325.
2.Spiders of the Eastern US, A Photographic Guide
W. Mike Howell and Ronald L. Jenkins. 2004. pearson education.