Coras (spider)
| Coras | |
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| C. medicinalis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Suborder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Amaurobiidae |
| Subfamily: | Coelotinae |
| Genus: | Coras Simon, 1898 |
| Type species | |
| Tegeneria medicinalis Hentz, 1821 | |
| Species | |
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| Diversity | |
| 15 species | |
Coras is a genus of spiders in the family Amaurobiidae (currently still placed in Agelenidae) with 15 described species that occur in eastern North America from Nova Scotia south to Florida. They can be readily distinguished from other genera in the subfamily by their anterior median eyes being larger than the anterior lateral eyes, whereas in other genera the reverse is true, along with a number of more technical reproductive features. The type species is Coras medicinalis.[1]
These spiders are frequently found at or near ground level, or in cellars of houses,[2] where they construct small and rather messy sheet webs on the ground and attached to nearby more elevated things. These webs are small in area and are connected to tubular retreats with simple signal or catching threads radiating from entrance. [3]
The middle eyes in the lower or front row are as large as or larger than the eyes that flank them on the outside. The epigynum has projections at its forward corners. The legs have indistinct gray rings. [4]
Species
- Coras aerialis Muma, 1946 — USA
- Coras alabama Muma, 1946 — USA
- Coras angularis Muma, 1944 — USA
- Coras cavernorum Barrows, 1940 — USA
- Coras crescentis Muma, 1944 — USA
- Coras furcatus Muma, 1946 — USA
- Coras juvenilis (Keyserling, 1881) — USA
- Coras kisatchie Muma, 1946 — USA
- Coras lamellosus (Keyserling, 1887) — USA
- Coras medicinalis (Hentz, 1821) — USA, Canada
- Coras montanus (Emerton, 1890) — USA, Canada
- Coras parallelis Muma, 1944 — USA
- Coras perplexus Muma, 1946 — USA
- Coras taugynus Chamberlin, 1925 — USA
- Coras tennesseensis Muma, 1946 — USA
References
- ↑ Wang, Xin-ping (2002), "A Generic-level Revision of the Spider Subfamily Coelontinae (Araneae, Amaurobiidae)", Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (269)
- ↑ B. J. Kaston, How to Know the Spiders, p. 172
- ↑ Foelix, Biology of Spiders, p. 122
- ↑ B. J. Kaston, Spiders of Connecticut, pp. 279-281
- Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 10.0. American Museum of Natural History.
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