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Pelegrina montana (Emerton 1891)

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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  1. Male face
  2. Palpus
  3. Female abdomen
  4. Epigynum
  5. 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.
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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 College

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