Harvesting Ants and Trap-Door Spiders: Notes and Observations on Their Habits and DwellingsMoggridge, John Traherne
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Harvesting Ants and Trap-Door Spiders: Notes and Observations on Their Habits and Dwellings
Moggridge, John Traherne
Ants; Trap-door spiders
_Idiops Syriacus_, Cambr. Beirût.
_Æpycephalus brevidens_, Doleschall. Sicily.
_Cteniza Sauvagei_, Rossi. (_Ct. fodiens_), Corsica, Pisa, Mentone,
Ionian Islands.
_Ct. orientalis_, Auss. Brussa.
_Ct. ædificatoria_, Westw. (_Actinopus ædificatorius_, Westw.)
Tangiers.
_Ct. algeriana_, Luc. Algiers.
_Cyrtocarenum Arianum_, Walck. (_Mygale (Cteniza) Ariana_, Walck.).
Naxos, Tinos.
_C. tigrinum_, L. Koch. Syra.
_C. grajum_, C. Koch. Nauplia in the Morea.
_C. ionicum_, Saunders. Ionia.
_C. lapidarium_, Luc. Crete.
_Cyrtauchenius Walckenaerii_, Luc. Algiers.
_C. Doleschallii_, Auss. Sicily.
_C. similis_, L. Koch. Saragossa.
_C. obscurus_, Auss. Sicily.
_Nemesia cæmentaria_, Latr. S. France, Spain, Sardinia, Corsica,
Sicily, Algiers.
_N. cæmentaria_, var. _germanica_, Auss. Wippach, near Görz in
Trieste.
[_N. meridionalis_, Costa. Naples, Ischia, Sestri near Genoa,
Mentone, and Cannes.]
[_N. Eleanora_. Mentone and Cannes.]
_N. cellicola_, Sav. et Aud. Rome, Sicily, and Egypt.
_N. maculatipes_, Doleschall. Sardinia.
_N. badia._, Auss. Corsica.
_N. manderstjernæ_, L. Koch. Nice.
_N. hispanica_, L. Koch. Madrid.
_N. macrocephala_, Auss. Palermo.
_Brachythele icterina_, C. Koch. Greece.
_B. incerta_, Auss. Brussa.
_Macrothele calpetana_, Walck. Southern Spain.
_M. luctuosa_, Luc. Southern Spain.
_Leptopelma transalpina_, Doleschall. Friuli.
_Ischnocolos triangulifer_, Doleschall. Sicily.
_I. holosericeus_, L. Koch. Spain.
_I. gracilis_, Auss. Cyprus.
_I. syriacus_, Auss. Syria.
_Chætopelma ægyptiaca_, Dol. Egypt.
D.
_Hints on Collecting Spiders._
It is very important to collect adult specimens of males and females,
but the former, from their roaming habits, are often extremely
difficult to find.
At night they may sometimes be taken by lamp-light near the nests
of the females, and certain kinds are said to live with the female
during the months of September and October. The females may usually
be found in their nests during the daytime (always in Europe?).
Large spiders should be killed, or at least stupefied with
chloroform, before being put into spirit of wine. It is convenient to
place the specimens in glass test-tubes closed with corks, and filled
with pure spirit of wine, as they may then be examined through the
glass.
When specimens of more than one species are placed in the same
tube or bottle, it is well to distinguish each by a number written
in pencil on a small strip of card fastened round the body with a
slip-noose of thread.
The patterns on the abdomen and cephalothorax of the spiders are seen
very distinctly when the spiders are immersed in spirits of wine,
and these frequently afford characters which aid in determining the
species.
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