Sheet-Web Spiders
Mermessus maculatus (Banks, 1892)

Taxonomy

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class

Trogloxene

Realm

Terrestrial

Distribution

Range

Known from 14 counties across five states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee

Counties

Alabama

Jackson, Madison

Georgia

Bartow, Decatur, Grady

Illinois

Jackson, Jo Daviess, Johnson, Monroe, Pope

Missouri

St. Genevieve

Tennessee

Overton, Van Buren, Warren

Conservation and management

NatureServe

GNR Unranked

National ranks

Canada

N4 Apparently Secure

United States

NNR

Subnational ranks

Ontario

S4 Apparently Secure

Nova Scotia

SU Unrankable

Quebec

SNR Unranked

Newfoundland and Labrador

SU Unrankable

Indiana

SNR Unranked

West Virginia

SNR Unranked

Illinois

SNR Unranked

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

• Godwin, J.C. 2008. Biological inventory of the cave and karst systems of The Nature Conservancy's Sharp-Bingham Mountain Preserve. Alabama Natural Heritage Program, Auburn, Alabama, USA. 40 pp.
• Lewis, J.J., Moss, P., Tecic, D. & Nelson, M.E. 2003. A conservation focused inventory of subterranean invertebrates of the southwestern Illinois karst. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 65: 9–21.
• Lewis, J.J. 2005. A biological inventory of caves of the Cumberland Plateau. Tennessee Chapter Cave Program, The Nature Conservancy, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. 156 pp.
• Peck, S.B. & Lewis, J.J. 1978. Zoogeography and evolution of the subterranean invertebrate faunas of Illinois and southeastern Missouri. National Speleological Society Bulletin 40: 39–63.
• Peck, S.B. 1989. The cave fauna of Alabama. Part I. The terrestrial invertebrates (excluding insects). National Speleological Society Bulletin 51: 11–33.
• Reeves, W.K., Jensen, J.B. & Ozier, J.C. 2000. New faunal and fungal records from caves in Georgia, USA. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 62: 169–179. https://caves.org/wp-content/uploads/Publications/JCKS/v62/v62n3-Reeves.pdf.
• Webb, D.W., Taylor, S.J. & Krejca, J.K. 1993. The biological resources of Illinois caves and other subterranean environments. Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, Illinois, USA. 143 pp.
• Zigler, K.S., Niemiller, M.L., Stephen, C.D.R., Ayala, B.N., Milne, M.A., Gladstone, N.S., Engel, A.S., Jensen, J.B., Camp, C.D., Ozier, J.C. & Cressler, A. 2020. Biodiversity from caves and other subterranean habitats of Georgia, USA. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 82: 125–167. doi:10.4311/2019LSC0125

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