Taxon details
Asagena americana Emerton, 1882
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
- Described:
- Last updated: 2022-11-16
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008021]
- Distribution: Canada, USA, Mexico, China
- External Resources *:
- Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; m (Levi, 1957b)
Asagena americana Keyserling, 1886b: 2, pl. 11, f. 135 (mf).
Asagena americana Simon, 1894a: 574, f. 586.
Asagena americana Emerton, 1902: 122, f. 287 (mf).
Asagena americana Bishop, 1925: 66, f. 1 (m).
Asagena americana Kaston, 1948: 73, f. 25-29 (mf, removed from S of A. dubia).
Steatoda americana Levi, 1957b: 400, f. 66-69 (mf).
Steatoda phalerata Hu & Wu, 1989: 132, f. 103.1-2 (f; misidentified per Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 128).
Steatoda americana Knoflach, 1996d: 395, f. 58-64, 69, 74 (mf).
Steatoda americana Zhu, 1998: 338, f. 226A-E (mf).
Steatoda americana Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 128, f. 67C-D, K-L (mf).
Steatoda americana Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 220, f. 2462-2464 (mf).
Steatoda americana Agnarsson, 2004: 607, f. 92D (m).
Steatoda americana Agnarsson, Coddington & Knoflach, 2007: 346, f. 17-19 (m).
Steatoda americana Agnarsson & Coddington, 2008: 53, f. 1C-D (m).
Asagena americana Wunderlich, 2008b: 199, f. 35 (m, T from Steatoda).
Asagena americana Álvarez-Padilla & Hormiga, 2011a: 849, f. 136B, 138E (mf).
Asagena americana Zhang, Peng & Zhang, 2022: 30, f. 13A-C (f).
Agnarsson, I. (2004). Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 141(4): 447-626. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00120.x -- Show included taxa
Agnarsson, I., Coddington, J. A. & Knoflach, B. (2007). Morphology and evolution of cobweb spider male genitalia (Araneae, Theridiidae). Journal of Arachnology 35(2): 334-395. doi:10.1636/SH-06-36.1 -- Show included taxa
Agnarsson, I. & Coddington, J. A. (2008). Quantitative tests of primary homology. Cladistics 24: 51-61. -- Show included taxa
Álvarez-Padilla, F. & Hormiga, G. (2011a). Morphological and phylogenetic atlas of the orb-weaving spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae: Araneoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162(4): 713-879. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00692.x -- Show included taxa
Bishop, S. C. (1925). Singing spiders. New York State Museum Bulletin 260: 65-69. -- Show included taxa
Emerton, J. H. (1882). New England spiders of the family Theridiidae. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 6: 1-86. -- Show included taxa
Emerton, J. H. (1902). The common spiders of the United States. Boston, 225 pp. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.5617 -- Show included taxa
Hu, J. L. & Wu, W. G. (1989). Spiders from agricultural regions of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Shandong University Publishing House, Jinan, 435 pp. -- Show included taxa
Kaston, B. J. (1948). Spiders of Connecticut. Bulletin of the Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey 70: 1-874. -- Show included taxa
Keyserling, E. (1886b). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Theridiidae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 2, 1-295. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832 -- Show included taxa
Knoflach, B. (1996d). Die Arten der Steatoda phalerata-Gruppe in Europa (Arachnida: Araneae, Theridiidae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 69(3-4): 377-404. doi:10.5169/seals-402640 -- Show included taxa
Levi, H. W. (1957b). The spider genera Crustulina and Steatoda in North America, Central America, and the West Indies (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 117: 367-424. -- Show included taxa
Paquin, P. & Dupérré, N. (2003). Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Supplement 11: 1-251. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1894a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 489-760. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 -- Show included taxa
Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa
Wunderlich, J. (2008b). On extant and fossil (Eocene) European comb-footed spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae), with notes on their subfamilies, and with descriptions of new taxa. Beiträge zur Araneologie 5: 140-469, 792-794, 796-800, 803, 819-859. -- Show included taxa
Zhang, F., Peng, J. Y. & Zhang, B. S. (2022). Spiders of Mt. Xiaowutai. Science Press, Beijing, 387 pp. [pdf in three parts] -- Show included taxa
Zhu, M. S. (1998). Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Theridiidae. Science Press, Beijing, 436 pp. -- Show included taxa
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Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
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2022-11-16 | New taxonomic reference entry | Zhang, Peng & Zhang, 2022 | n/a |
2020-06-06 | Species distribution update | Knoflach, 1996d | n/a (Old value) |