Wide Shield Sheetweaver
Bathyphantes weyeri (Emerton, 1875)
Taxonomy
| Kingdom | Animalia |
|---|---|
| Phylum | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum | Chelicerata |
| Class | Arachnida |
| Order | Araneae |
| Family | Linyphiidae |
| Genus | Bathyphantes |
| Species | Bathyphantes weyeri (Emerton, 1875) |
Description
Diagnostic characters
- Ecological class
- Troglobiont
- Realm
- Terrestrial
- Troglomorphy
- Troglomorphic
Distribution
Type locality
Grand Caverns, Augusta Co. VA
Range
Known from 10 counties across 12 states across four karst regions.
Continent
North America
Country
United States
States and provinces
Arkansas, Colorado, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Quebec, Virginia, Wisconsin, West Virginia
Counties
- Colorado
- El Paso
- Indiana
- Parke
- Kentucky
- Barren, Edmonson, Pulaski
- Maine
- York
- Ohio
- Vinton
- Wisconsin
- Richland
- West Virginia
- Monongalia/Preston, Preston
Karst regions
Appalachians, Driftless Area, Interior Low Plateau, Ozarks
Specimens
Type material
- Syntype
- 23545 · Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard
Collections holding material
| Institution | Lots |
|---|---|
| Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard | 5 |
| Denver Museum of Nature and Science | 1 |
| Field Museum of Natural History | 1 |
| National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution | 1 |
| Ohio State University Acarology Laboratory | 1 |
9 cataloged lots in 5 collections. Compiled from GBIF and not an exhaustive census: many collections are not yet digitised, and holdings are added continually. Search GBIF for specimen records.
Download all 9 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.
Conservation and management
NatureServe
G4 Apparently Secure
Global rank last reviewed 21 August 2002.
Subnational ranks
- Arkansas
- SNR Unranked
- West Virginia
- S3 Vulnerable
- Wisconsin
- SNR Unranked
- Indiana
- SNR Unranked
- Kentucky
- S3 Vulnerable
- Pennsylvania
- SNR Unranked
- Virginia
- S1 Critically Imperiled
Ranks looked up 23 August 2026. Conservation status changes, and a rank here is as current as that date and no more.
State and federal status
Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
Other resources
References
- Barr, T.C., Jr. 1958. A new cave beetle of the genus Ptomaphagus (Catiopidae) from DeKalb County, Tennessee. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 33: 170–171.
- Barr, T.C., Jr. & Kuehne, R.A. 1971. Ecological studies in the Mammoth Cave system of Kentucky. II. The Ecosystem. Annales de Speleologie 26: 47–96. doi:10.5038/1827-806X.3.1.10
- Harker, D.F., Jr. & Barr, T.C., Jr. 1979. Caves and associated fauna of Eastern Kentucky, Volume 3. Kentucky Nature Preserves Commission, Frankfurt, Kentucky, USA. 130 pp.
- Lewis, J.J. 2004. Interstate 66 karst faunal study. Environmental Impact Statement. 17 pp.
- Packard, A.S. 1881. Fauna of the Luray and Newmarket caves, Virginia. The American Naturalist 15: 231–232. doi:10.1086/272787
- Peck, S.B. & Christiansen, K. 1990. Evolution and zoogeography of the invertebrate cave faunas of the Driftless Area of the upper Mississippi River Valley of Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois, U.S.A. Canadian Journal of Zoology 68: 73–88. doi:10.1139/z90-012
This account was last revised 28 August 2026. Conservation ranks were looked up 23 August 2026.
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