Pocock's Lampshade-Web Spider
Hypochilus pococki Platnick, 1987

Taxonomy

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class

Trogloxene

Realm

Terrestrial

Distribution

Range

Known from five counties across two states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

North Carolina, Tennessee

Counties

North Carolina

Burke, Madison, McDowell

Tennessee

Blount, Sevier

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G4 Apparently Secure

National ranks

United States

NNR

Subnational ranks

South Carolina

SNR Unranked

North Carolina

SNR Unranked

Virginia

S2 Imperiled

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

• Forster, R.R., Platnick, N.I. & Gray, M.R. 1987. A review of the spider superfamilies Hypochiloidea and Austrochiloidea (Araneae, Araneomorphae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 185: 1–116.
• Mays, J.D. 2002. A systematic approach to sampling the arthropod assemblage of Gregorys Cave, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, USA. 83 pp.
• Reeves, W.K. 2000. Invertebrate cavernicoles of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 116: 334–343. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24335885.
• Wallace, R.L. 1990. Biological survey report of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park caves. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S. National Park Service, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, USA. 34 pp.
• Wallace, R.L. 1990. Myhr Cave fauna. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S. National Park Service, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, USA. 5 pp.

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