Catalogue of Texas spiders
Author
Dean, David Allen
Department of Entomology, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America
a-dean-ento@tamu.edu
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ZooKeys
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.570.6095
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Mecaphesa dubia (Keyserling, 1880)
Mecaphesa dubia
Calixto et al. 2013
: 185;
Knutson et al. 2010
: 516;
Lehtinen and Marusik 2008
: 194 [T]
Misumenops dubius
(Keyserling, 1880);
Armstrong and Richman 2007
: 396;
Breene et al. 1993a
: 169;
Breene et al. 1993b
: 648;
Breene et al. 1993c
: 30, 48, 79, mf
(
figs 82A-B);
Cokendolpher et al. 1979
: 731;
Dean and Sterling 1987
: 6;
Dean et al. 1988
: 287;
Gertsch 1939a
: 325 [S], mf, desc. (figs 48-49, 64);
Glick 1957
: 5;
Jackman 1997
: 169;
Kagan 1942
: 49;
Kagan 1943
: 258;
Nyffeler et al. 1992c
: 2;
Vogel 1970b
: 26;
Young and Edwards 1990
: 24
Misumena dubia
Keyserling, 1880;
Marx 1890
: 556
Distribution.
Archer, Atascosa, Bastrop, Bee, Bell, Bexar, Borden, Brazos, Brewster, Brooks, Burleson, Burnet, Callahan, Cameron, Colorado, Comanche, Concho, Coryell, Dimmit, Erath, Falls, Frio, Goliad, Gonzales, Hamilton, Hays, Hidalgo, Hill, Houston, Howard, Jones, Kendall, Kenedy, Kerr, Kimble, Kinney, Knox, Lee, McLennan, McMullen, Nolan, Nueces, Presidio, Robertson, San Patricio, Scurry, Starr, Travis, Uvalde, Val Verde, Victoria, Ward, Webb, Wharton, Wichita, Willacy, Williamson, Zapata
Locality.
Adriance Pecan Orchard, Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Big Bend National Park, Bill Haney Pecan Orchard, Falcon State Park, Garner State Park, Goliad State Park, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Lake Thomas, Pollito Lake, Russell Farm, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary, Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Seminole Canyon State Park, South Padre Island, Stiles Farm Foundation, Welder Wildlife Refuge, Zilker Park
Caves.
Burnet
(Beaver Creek Bat Cave)
Time of activity.
Male (February - December); female (February - December)
Habitat.
(crops: cotton,
Sorghum halepense
, sugarcane); (grass: grass, grassland, pasture,
Panicum virgatum
); (landscape features: cave, rocky hillside); (littoral: dune vegetation, grass marsh); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest); (orchard: citrus, grapefruit, pecan, Valley lemon); (plants: bluebonnets,
Compositae
, miscellaneous vegetation, pink evening primrose, roadside vegetation,
Baccharis
,
Centaurea
sp.,
Coreopsis
sp.,
Dalea
sp.,
Euphorbia
sp.,
Gaillardia
sp.,
Liatris mucronata
,
Monarda citriodora
,
Prionopsis ciliata
,
Thelesperma
sp.,
Xanthium sp. cf. italicum
,
Xanthocephalum dracunculoides
); (soil/woodland: brushy area, chaparral, hackberry matte, juniper, saltcedar, scrub cottonwood, trees, trees/shrubs, willow,
Prosopis grandulosa
)
Method.
Beating [mf]; boll weevil pheromone trap [m]; D-Vac suction [mf]; pitfall trap [f]; suction trap [m]; sweeping [mf]
Type.
Mexico
Etymology.
Latin, uncertain affinity
Collection.
DMNS, MSU, NMSU, TAMU, TMM