Tetragnathidae  Menge, 1866 / Tetragnatha  Latreille, 1804   19 species

Tetragnatha shoshone Levi, 1981

Description
Male

Colouration as in females.

Body length male: 5.4-8.8 mm
Female

Prosoma, sternum and legs yellowish. Opisthosma evenly covered with tiny silver pigment spots, except for cardiac area and a narrow ventral band to spinnerets.

Body length female: 8.6-12.3 mm
Additional information

This species was first described by Levi (1981) for North America and later detected in a few European locations (Uhl et al. 1992). It can be considered to be of North American origin (alien species) but may also be a Holarctic species. Therefore, it is listed here as cryptogenic.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Canada, USA, Europe, Russia (Europe, South Siberia), Kazakhstan, Iran, Mongolia, China
Phenology
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Distribution List
Austria   (Thaler & Knoflach, 2003) ||| Bulgaria   (Naumova et al., 2021) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| France   (Bosmans, 2014a) ||| Germany   (Uhl et al., 1992; Blick et al., 2016) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| North Macedonia   (Blagoev, 2002) ||| Poland   (Hajdamowicz, 2009) ||| Romania   (Uhl et al., 1992; Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Sozontov & Esyunin, 2015) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Sweden   (Almquist, 2006) ||| Switzerland   (Loria, 2025) |||
References

Almquist S (2006) Swedish Araneae, part 1 – families Atypidae to Hahniidae (Linyphiidae excluded). Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 62(2005): 1-284 pdf

Blagoev G (2002) Check list of Macedonian spiders (Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 54: 9-34 pdf

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 pdf

Bosmans R (2014a) Tetragnatha shoshone Levi, 1981 nouvelle espèce pour la France (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 1: 11-12 pdf

Gajdoš P, Svatoň J, Sloboda J (1999) Katalóg pavúkov Slovenska. Catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Ústav kr. ekol. SAV, Bratislava, 337 pp.

Hajdamowicz I (2009) Tetragnatha shoshone Levi, 1981, a new spider species of longjawed orbweavers (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) in Poland. Polish Journal of Entomology 78: 169-175 pdf

Levi H W (1981) The American orb-weaver genera Dolichognatha and Tetragnatha north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae, Tetragnathinae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 149: 271-318 pdf

Loria P (2025) Premières mentions de Philodromus pinetorum Muster, 2009, Tetragnatha shoshone Levi, 1981 et Theridion hannoniae Denis, 1945 en Suisse et captures d’espèces notables (Araneae). Entomo Helvetica 18: 75-90 pdf

Naumova M, Blagoev G, Deltshev D (2021) Fifty spider species new to the Bulgarian fauna, with a review of some dubious species (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 4984: 228-257 pdf

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html pdf

Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184 pdf

Sozontov A N, Esyunin S L (2015) Taxonomical remarks about two spider species from the genus Tetragnatha Latreille 1804 (Aranei, Tetragnathidae). Entomological Review 95: 406-414 pdf

Thaler K, Knoflach B (2003) Zur Faunistik der Spinnen (Araneae) von Österreich: Orbiculariae p.p. (Araneidae, Tetragnathidae, Theridiosomatidae, Uloboridae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 35: 613-655 pdf

Uhl G, Sacher P, Weiss I, Kraus O (1992) Europäische Vorkommen von Tetragnatha shoshone (Arachnida, Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 33: 247-261 pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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