Anyphaena celer (Hentz, 1847)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023662

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Described:

Distribution: Canada, USA

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Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Boston Society of Natural History, Boston, USA m (destroyed) - (Platnick, 1974)
  • Allotype: Boston Society of Natural History, Boston, USA f (destroyed) - (Platnick, 1974)
  • Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA f of Anyphaena incerta - (Platnick, 1974)
Taxonomic References
Clubiona celer Hentz, 1847: 452, pl. 23, f. 20 (Df) Original description
Anyphaena incerta Keyserling, 1887b: 452, pl. 6, f. 22 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058599]
Anyphaena incerta Emerton, 1890: 186, pl. 6, f. 2 (Dmf)
Anyphaena celer Simon, 1897a: 96
Anyphaena incerta Emerton, 1902: 11, f. 37-41 (mf)
Gayenna celer Comstock, 1912: 563, f. 634-635 (mf)
Anyphaena celer Bryant, 1931: 111, pl. 6, f. 9, pl. 8, f. 25, 28 (mf, S of Anyphaena incerta)
Anyphaena celer Chickering, 1939: 51, f. 1-4 (mf)
Anyphaena celer Comstock, 1940: 577, f. 634-635 (mf)
Anyphaena celer Kaston, 1948: 407, f. 1471-1476 (mf)
Anyphaena celer Forster, 1970b: 13, f. 18
Anyphaena celer Platnick, 1974: 214, f. 1, 9-10, 18 (mf)
Anyphaena celer Dondale & Redner, 1982: 175, f. 320-324, 326 (mf)
Anyphaena celer Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 35, f. 193-195 (mf)
Anyphaena celer García-García et al., 2026: 25, f. 16A-G, 17A-E (mf)
References

Bryant, E. B. (1931). Note on the North American Anyphaeninae in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Psyche 38(2-3): 102-126. doi: 10.1155/1931/13898 -- Show included taxa

Chickering, A. M. (1939). Anyphaenidae and Clubionidae of Michigan. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters 24: 49-84. -- 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. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City/New York, 721 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.3163 -- Show included taxa

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

Dondale, C. D. & Redner, J. H. (1982). The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 9. The sac spiders of Canada and Alaska, Araneae: Clubionidae and Anyphaenidae. Research Branch Agriculture Canada Publication 1724: 1-194. -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1890). New England spiders of the families Drassidae, Agalenidae and Dysderidae. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 8: 166-206, pl. 3-8. -- Show included taxa

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

Forster, R. R. (1970b). The spiders of New Zealand. Part III. Otago Museum Bulletin 3: 1-184. -- Show included taxa

García-García, M. Á., Ibarra-Núñez, G., Sánchez-García, J. A. & Jiménez, M. L. (2026). Taxonomic review of the North American species of the accentuata and celer groups of the genus Anyphaena Sundevall, 1833 (Araneae: Anyphaenidae), with description of eight new species. Zootaxa 5788(1): 1-106. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5788.1.1 [[Zoobank: DB5F9F7E-23F0-4E71-811A-A4EB76B84337]] -- Show included taxa

Hentz, N. M. (1847). Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 5(4): 443-479, pl. 23-24, 30-31. -- 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. (1887b). Neue Spinnen aus America. VII. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 37: 421-490, pl. 6. -- Show included taxa

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

Platnick, N. I. (1974). The spider family Anyphaenidae in America north of Mexico. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 146(4): 205-266. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1897a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-192. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2026-04-09 New taxonomic reference entry García-García et al., 2026

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