Pelegrina montana
Containing group: Pelegrina
Introduction
A large, dark northern and montane species. The embolus that expands near tip and the rough epigynum with ridges behind the flaps are diagnostic.
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5- Male face
- Palpus
- Female abdomen
- Epigynum
- Male (Butte, MT)
Natural History
From birch, willow, poplar and other deciduous bushes and trees beside streams, rivers, and in bogs in British Columbia, Yukon, Montana (4 records). In aspen-lodgepole pine meadow in Colorado (1 records). In Yukon below 450 m elevation (1 record), Montana and Idaho 1800-2000 m (2 records), Colorado, Utah and Wyoming 2400-2900 m (9 records).Distribution
Newfoundland west to British Columbia, Yukon Territory south to Colorado in the west and New Hampshire and New York in the east. Kaston`s (1973) report of a record from Illinois is probably based on a pair of insignis from Urbana in the AMNH identified by him in 1949 as montana; the male has the tip of both emboli broken (see Cutler, 1979) and thus resembles montana.About This Page
Included on this page are images and text from Maddison, W.P. 1996. Pelegrina Franganillo and other jumping spiders formerly placed in the genus Metaphidippus (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. l54(4): 215-368. These images and text are copyright © 1996 The President and Fellows of Harvard CollegePage copyright © 1995 Wayne Maddison
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Tree of Life Web Project. 1995. Pelegrina montana . Version 01 January 1995 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Pelegrina_montana/5024/1995.01.01 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
