Taxon details


Amaurobius ferox (Walckenaer, 1830)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2020-06-19
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022605]
  • Distribution: Europe, Turkey. Introduced to Canada, USA, Mexico
Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Clubiona ferox Walckenaer, 1830: 150, f. 12, pl. 7, f. 7 (D).
Clubiona ferox nigra Walckenaer, 1837: 607 (D).
Clubiona ferox Walckenaer, 1837: 606 (Dmf).
Amaurobius cryptarum C. L. Koch, 1837b: 15, f. 3-4 (D).
Amaurobius ferox C. L. Koch, 1839a: 41, f. 460-461 (mf).
Amaurobius ferox L. Koch, 1855: 165, f. 4 (m).
Ciniflo ferox Blackwall, 1859a: 93.
Ciniflo mordax Blackwall, 1859a: 93 (Df).
Ciniflo mordax Blackwall, 1861a: 144, pl. 9, f. 91 (f).
Ciniflo ferox Blackwall, 1861a: 142, pl. 9, f. 90 (mf).
Amaurobius ferox L. Koch, 1868: 11, pl. 1, f. 3-4 (mf).
Amaurobius mordax Canestrini & Pavesi, 1870: 40(20).
Amaurobius ferox Menge, 1871: 289, pl. 55, f. 167 (mf).
Amaurobius corsicus Simon, 1874a: 232 (Df).
Amaurobius ferox Emerton, 1888: 451, pl. 10, f. 3 (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1891: 165, pl. 6, f. 37 (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Becker, 1896: 234, pl. 14, f. 15 (mf).
Amaurobius peninsulanus Banks, 1898b: 232, pl. 14, f. 23 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056532].
Amaurobius ferox Bösenberg, 1902: 252, pl. 23, f. 364 (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Emerton, 1902: 215, f. 492 (mf).
Ciniflo ferox Lessert, 1910b: 16, f. 21, 23 (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Comstock, 1912: 278, f. 258-259.
Amaurobius ferox Berland, 1913c: 32, f. 16, 19 (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Simon, 1914: 36, 39, 59, f. 63-64, 78 (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Reimoser, 1929c: 64, f. 10 (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Comstock, 1940: 277, f. 258-259 (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Drensky, 1940: 186, f. 20a-b, 23b (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Chamberlin, 1947: 6, pl. 1, f. 1-2 (mf).
Amaurobius peninsulanus Chamberlin, 1947: 24, pl. 1, f. 3-4 (m).
Amaurobius ferox Kaston, 1948: 517, f. 1988-1991 (mf).
Ciniflo ferox Locket & Millidge, 1951: 55, f. 22A, D (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Wiehle, 1953: 124, f. 262-267 (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Muller, 1956: 202, f. 9-10 (m).
Amaurobius ferox Buchar, 1961: 91, f. 2C-E (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Hubert, 1965: 786, f. 1, 17 (f).
Amaurobius ferox Brændegaard, 1966: 43, f. 28-29 (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Czajka, 1967: 404, f. 5-8 (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Lehtinen, 1967: 212 (S of Amaurobius peninsulanus).
Amaurobius ferox Loksa, 1969: 23, f. 15A, 18B, D-E (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Tystshenko, 1971: 61, f. 77, 84 (mf).
Ciniflo ferox Miller, 1971: 65, pl. III, f. 10 (m).
Amaurobius ferox Leech, 1971: 27, f. 11-13 (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Leech, 1972: 72, f. 116-117, 312 (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Dresco, 1977: 879, f. 15 (m).
Amaurobius ferox Roberts, 1985: 48, f. 13c (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 382, f. 992 (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Pesarini, 1991a: 272, f. 13a-b, 18a-b (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Roberts, 1995: 80, f. (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Roberts, 1998: 82, f. (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Silva-Dávila, 2003: 40, f. 12a-b (m).
Amaurobius ferox Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 31, f. 142-145 (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006: 62, f. 8a-h (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Almquist, 2006: 324, f. 284a-e (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Ballarin & Pantini, 2017: 480, f. 12, 27-29, 34, 38 (mf).
Amaurobius ferox Kovács & Szinetár, 2020: 75, f. 1-3 (mf).
References

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Ballarin, F. & Pantini, P. (2017). A new species of Amaurobius C.L. Koch, 1837 (Araneae: Amaurobiidae) from Apennine Mountains (Italy) with the description of the male of A. pavesii Pesarini, 1991. Zootaxa 4276(4): 479-502. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4276.4.2 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Banks, N. (1898b). Arachnida from Baja California and other parts of Mexico. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (3) 1(7): 205-309. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Becker, L. (1896). Les arachnides de Belgique, deuxième et troisième parties. Annales du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 12(2): 1-127, pl. 1-25 & 12(3): 1-378, pl. 1-18. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.48721 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Berland, J. (1913c). Note préliminaire sur le cribellum et le calamistrum des araignées cribellates et sur les moeurs de ces araignées. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 51(Notes & Rev.): 23-41. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1859a). Descriptions of six recently discovered species, and characters of a new genus of Araneida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 3: 91-98. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1861a). A history of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. [Part I]. Ray Society, London, pp. 1-174, pl. 1-12. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.143674 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bösenberg, W. (1902). Die Spinnen Deutschlands. II-IV. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 14(2-4): 97-384, pl. 9-36. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6508 download pdf download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Brændegaard, J. (1966). Edderkopper eller spindlere I. Danmarks Fauna 72: 1-224. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Buchar, J. (1961). Revision des vorkommens von seltenen Spinnenarten auf dem Gebiete von Böhmen. Acta Universitatis Carolinae Biologica 1961: 87-101. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Canestrini, G. & Pavesi, P. (1870). Catalogo sistematico degli Araneidi italiano. Archivi per la Zoologia Anatomia e Fisiologia Bologna (2) 2: 60-64 (separate, pp. 1-44, pl. 3-4). download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chamberlin, R. V. (1947). A summary of the known North American Amaurobiidae. Bulletin of the University of Utah 38(8): 1-31. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chyzer, C. & Kulczyński, W. (1891). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus I. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae, Budapest, 170 pp., 4 Pls. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Comstock, J. H. (1912). The spider book; a manual for the study of the spiders and their near relatives, the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whipscorpions, harvestmen and other members of the class Arachnida, found in America north of Mexico, with analytical keys for their classification and popular accounts of their habits. Garden City, New York, pp. 1-721. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Comstock, J. H. (1940). The spider book, revised and edited by W. J. Gertsch. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, 727 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Czajka, M. (1967). Some new notes on Amaurobius jugorum L. Koch (Amaurobiidae, Araneae). Przegląd Zoologiczny 11: 404-407. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Drensky, P. (1940). Die Spinnenfauna Bulgariens IV. Mitteilungen aus den Königlichen Naturwissenschaftlichen Instituten in Sofia 13: 169-194. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dresco, E. (1977). Recherches sur les Amaurobius (Araneae, Amaurobiidae) et description de A. tessinensis sp. nov. du Tessin (Suisse). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 84(4): 873-882. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.91431 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1888). New England spiders of the family Ciniflonidae. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 7: 443-458. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1902). The common spiders of the United States. Boston, 225 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.5617 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hubert, M. (1965). Remarques sur quelques espèces d'araignées du genre Amaurobius C. Koch, 1837 et description d'une espèce nouvelle. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (2) 36: 784-796. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Jocqué, R. & Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (2006). Spider families of the world. Musée Royal de l'Afrique Central, Tervuren, 336 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kaston, B. J. (1948). Spiders of Connecticut. Bulletin of the Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey 70: 1-874. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1837b). Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. Heft 1. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, 39 pp., pl. 1-6. [for the detailled publishing date see Nagel & Grieder, 2019: 47] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.39561 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1839a). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Fünfter Band, pp. 125-158, pl. 175-180 (f. 418-431); Sechster Band, pp. 1-156, pl. 181-216 (f. 432-540); Siebenter Band, pp. 1-106, pl. 217-246 (f. 541-584). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1855). Zur Charakteristik des Artenunterschiedes bei den Spinnen im allgemeinen und insbesondere der Gattung Amaurobius. Korrespondenz-Blatt des Zoologisch-Mineralogischen Vereins in Regensburg 9: 158-168, 1 pl. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1868). Die Arachnidengattungen Amaurobius, Coelotes and Cybaeus. Abhandlungen der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft zu Nürnberg 4: 1-52. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kovács, G. & Szinetár, C. (2020). Adatok a nagy eretnekpók (Amaurobius ferox [Walckenaer, 1830]) biológiájához (Araneae: Amaurobiidae) [Data on the biology of Amaurobius ferox (Walckenaer, 1830) (Araneae: Amaurobiidae)]. Biológia Savaria Természettudományi és Sporttudományi Közlemények 18: 75-92. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Leech, R. E. (1971). The introduced Amaurobiidae of North America, and Callobius hokkaido n. sp. from Japan (Arachnida: Araneida). The Canadian Entomologist 103(1): 23-32. doi:10.4039/Ent10323-1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Leech, R. E. (1972). A revision of the Nearctic Amaurobiidae (Arachnida: Araneida). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 84: 1-182. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468. [second pdf: index and outline by V. D. Roth (unpubl.)] download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1910b). Catalogue des invertebres de la Suisse. Fasc. 3, Araignées. Musée d'histoire naturelle de Genève, 635 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Locket, G. H. & Millidge, A. F. (1951). British spiders. Vol. I. Ray Society, London, 310 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Loksa, I. (1969). Araneae I. Fauna Hungariae 97: 1-133. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Menge, A. (1871). Preussische Spinnen. IV. Abtheilung. Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig (N. F.) 2: 265-296. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Miller, F. (1971). Pavouci-Araneida. Klíč zvířeny ČSSR 4: 51-306. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Muller, L. (1956). Les cribellates dans le Grand-Duché de Luxembourg. Archives de l'Institut Grand-Ducal de Luxembourg 23: 195-207. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Paquin, P. & Dupérré, N. (2003). Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Supplement 11: 1-251. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pesarini, C. (1991a). The Amaurobiidae of northern Italy. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 131: 261-276. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Reimoser, E. (1929c). Einheimische Spinnen 3-4. Die Natur (Wien) 5: 36-39, 62-65, 82-89. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1985). The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1: Atypidae to Theridiosomatidae. Harley Books, Colchester, England, 229 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1995). Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1998). Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Silva-Dávila, D. (2003). Higher-level relationships of the spider family Ctenidae (Araneae: Ctenoidea). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 274: 1-86. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2003)274<0001:HLROTS>2.0.CO;2 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1874a). Les arachnides de France. Paris 1, 1-272. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1914). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 1re partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-308. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tystshenko, V. P. (1971). Opredelitel' paukov evropejskoj chasti SSSR. Leningrad, 281 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1830). Aranéides. In: Faune française ou histoire naturelle générale et particulière des animaux qui se trouvent en France, constamment ou passagèrement, à la surface du sol, dans les eaux qui le baignent et dans le littoral des mers qui le bornent par Viellot, Desmarrey, Ducrotoy, Audinet, Lepelletier et Walckenaer. F.-G. Levrault, Paris, livr. 26: 97-175, livr. 29: 177-240. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Tome premier. Roret, Paris, 682 pp., pl. 1-15. [plates in second pdf] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wiehle, H. (1953). Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea (Araneae) IX: Orthognatha-Cribellatae-Haplogynae-Entelegynae (Pholcidae, Zodariidae, Oxyopidae, Mimetidae, Nesticidae). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 42: 1-150. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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2020-06-19 New taxonomic reference entry Kovács & Szinetár, 2020 n/a
2017-06-16 New taxonomic reference entry Ballarin & Pantini, 2017 n/a