Arctobius agelenoides (Emerton, 1919)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022667

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Described:

Distribution: Northern Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Alaska, Canada, USA, Mexico?


Type Repository Provide information
  • Lectotype: Canadian National Collection (CNC), Ottawa, Canada m (12561) - (Leech, 1972)
  • Paralectotype: Canadian National Collection (CNC), Ottawa, Canada 1f - (Leech, 1972)
Taxonomic References
Amaurobius agelenoides Emerton, 1919a: 106, pl. 7, f. 7a-d (Dmf) Original description
Hesperauximus agelenoides Chamberlin, 1947: 18, f. 28 (f, T from Amaurobius)
Hesperauximus agelenoides Bishop, 1949: 104, f. 11-13 (m)
Arctobius agelenoides Lehtinen, 1967: 215, f. 143-147 (mf, T from Ixeuticus)
Arctobius agelenoides Leech, 1972: 93, f. 173-176, 385-386 (mf)
Arctobius agelenoides Palmgren, 1977a: 25, f. 5.17-18 (mf)
Arctobius agelenoides Danilov, 1994: 200, f. 2 (f)
Arctobius agelenoides Almquist, 2007: 326, f. 286a-c (m)
Arctobius agelenoides Tanasevitch & Kamayev, 2011: 8, f. 1-3 (f)
Arctobius agelenoides Marusik, Ballarin & Omelko, 2012a: 57, f. 9-11 (mf)
Arctobius agelenoides Marusik & Omelko, 2025: 390, f. 1-30, 32-33 (mf)
References

Almquist, S. (2007). Swedish Araneae, part 2 – families Dictynidae to Salticidae. Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 63(2006): 285-601. [[publ. in 2007 per Jonsson, in litt.]] -- Show included taxa

Bishop, S. C. (1949). Spiders of the Nueltin Lake Expedition, Keewatin, 1947. The Canadian Entomologist 81(4): 101-104. doi: 10.4039/Ent81101-4 -- 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. -- Show included taxa

Danilov, S. N. (1994). Cribellate spiders (Aranei, Cribellatae) of Transbaicalia. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 73: 200-209. -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1919a). New spiders from Canada and the adjoining states, No. 2. The Canadian Entomologist 51(5): 105-108, pl. 7. doi: 10.4039/Ent51105-5 -- 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. -- 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.)]] -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M., Ballarin, F. & Omelko, M. M. (2012a). On the spider genus Amaurobius (Araneae, Amaurobiidae) in India and Nepal. ZooKeys 168: 55-64. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.168.2352 -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2025). Redescription of a monotypic genus Arctobius belonging to a monotypic subfamily from the northern Holarctic (Aranei: Amaurobiidae: Arctobiinae). Arthropoda Selecta 34(3): 387-395. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.34.3.10 -- Show included taxa

Palmgren, P. (1977a). Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands und Ostfennoskandiens. VIII. Argyronetidae, Agelenidae, Hahniidae, Dictynidae, Amaurobiidae, Titanoecidae, Segestriidae, Pholcidae und Sicariidae. Fauna Fennica 30: 1-50. -- Show included taxa

Tanasevitch, A. V. & Kamayev, I. O. (2011). Spiders of Kola Peninsula, Russia (Arachnida: Aranei). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 7: 7-32. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-09-23 New taxonomic reference entry Marusik & Omelko, 2025
2025-09-23 Species distribution update Marusik & Omelko, 2025 Old value

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