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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Eutichuridae » Longlegged Sac Spiders (Cheiracanthium) » Cheiracanthium inclusum

Species Cheiracanthium inclusum

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Habitat · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
Spider BG454 - Cheiracanthium inclusum - female Longlegged Sac Spider - Cheiracanthium inclusum Habitus, anterodorsal (face) view - Cheiracanthium inclusum - male Longlegged Sac Spider - Cheiracanthium inclusum - male Cheracanthium inclusum - Cheiracanthium inclusum - female Trachelas in nest - Cheiracanthium inclusum Trachelas in nest - Cheiracanthium inclusum Trachelas in nest - Cheiracanthium inclusum
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Eutichuridae
Genus Cheiracanthium (Longlegged Sac Spiders)
Species inclusum (Cheiracanthium inclusum)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
See the World Spider Catalog.

Cheiracanthium was previously placed in Miturgidae and was transferred to the new family Eutichuridae by Ramírez, 2014.(1)(2)
This genus was transferred to family Miturgidae from the family Clubionidae by Ramírez, Bonaldo & Brescovit, 1997.
Habitat
More often found outside.
Remarks
Nocturnal running spiders like Cheiracanthium inclusum, shown here feeding on bollworm eggs, are important nocturnal predators of cotton pests.(1)
Internet References
(1) www.ars.usda.gov - Image and information.

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

World Spider Catalog (2014). World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch, version 15.5, accessed on 11/11/2014(2)
Works Cited
1.The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders
Ramírez, Martín J. 2014. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.
2.World Spider Catalog
Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 30 September, 2006 - 12:40am
Additional contributions by Lynette Elliott, cheins, Chuck Entz, kschnei, jsloan, Laura P.
Last updated 13 June, 2015 - 8:18pm

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