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Corresponding author: David Dean ( a-dean-ento@tamu.edu ) Academic editor: Ingi Agnarsson
© 2016 David Dean.
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Dean DA (2016) Catalogue of Texas spiders. ZooKeys 570: 1-703. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.570.6095
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This catalogue lists 1,084 species of spiders (three identified to genus only) in 311 genera from 53 families currently recorded from Texas and is based on the “Bibliography of Texas Spiders” published by Bea Vogel in 1970. The online list of species can be found at http://pecanspiders.tamu.edu/spidersoftexas.htm. Many taxonomic revisions have since been published, particularly in the families Araneidae, Gnaphosidae and Leptonetidae. Many genera in other families have been revised. The Anyphaenidae, Ctenidae, Hahniidae, Nesticidae, Sicariidae and Tetragnathidae were also revised. Several families have been added and others split up. Several genera of Corinnidae were transferred to Phrurolithidae and Trachelidae. Two genera from Miturgidae were transferred to Eutichuridae. Zoridae was synonymized under Miturgidae. A single species formerly in Amaurobiidae is now in the Family Amphinectidae. Some trapdoor spiders in the family Ctenizidae have been transferred to Euctenizidae.
Gertsch and Mulaik started a list of Texas spiders in 1940. In a letter from Willis J. Gertsch dated October 20, 1982, he stated “Years ago a first listing of the Texas fauna was published by me based largely on Stanley Mulaik material, but it had to be abandoned because of other tasks.” This paper is a compendium of the spiders of Texas with distribution, habitat, collecting method and other data available from revisions and collections. This includes many records and unpublished data (including data from three unpublished studies). One of these studies included 16,000 adult spiders belonging to 177 species in 29 families. All specimens in that study were measured and results are in the appendix. Hidalgo County has 340 species recorded with Brazos County at 323 and Travis County at 314 species. These reflect the amount of collecting in the area.
Distribution, Locality, Caves, Time of activity, Habitat, Method, Type, Collection, Etymology, History of collecting, Thesis
References are listed that mention Texas for each species. Some checklists have been published, which remain the only reference to a species’ occurrence in Texas. Illustrations of the genitalia of a species not included in published reports of a Texas occurrence are included as a reference in brackets. Counties listed are those in which published reports include a species occurring in Texas and includes unpublished records from collections. A species listed as “widespread” is widely distributed across Texas. Several species are listed as “Texas.” The latest name of a species is given with synonymy included where Texas is listed. [T] is a transfer. [S] is synonymy.
Collecting data from locality labels is provided where available. This was taken from collections and revisions. The collections at Texas A&M University, the author’s collection and that at Midwestern State University were searched. Records from West Texas A&M were donated. Cave records from the Texas Memorial Museum are included. The South West Arthropod Network (http://symbiota4.acis.ufl.edu/scan/portal/collections/) was accessed September 13, 2014. It includes records from Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Museum of Comparative Zoology, New Mexico State University, Texas Memorial Museum, and Texas Tech University.
Catalogs of
Several spider species have been listed as endangered by the US Fish & Wildlife Service (
Years | Number of species | Authors with most species |
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1755–1799 | 19 | Clerck-9 |
1800–1824 | 10 | Walckenaer-6 |
1825–1849 | 145 | Hentz-73 Walckenaer-41 |
1850–1874 | 52 | Hentz-24 |
1875–1899 | 240 | Banks-56 O. P.-Cambridge-29 Emerton-40 Keyserling-52 Peckham & Peckham-22 Simon-16 |
1900–1924 | 130 | Banks-28 F. O. P.-Cambridge-14 Chamberlin-39 Peckham & Peckham-19 |
1925–1949 | 257 | Chamberlin-26 Chamberlin & others-43 Gertsch-71 Gertsch & Mulaik-45 Gertsch & others-39 |
1950–1974 | 72 | Gertsch-16 Levi-15 |
1975–1999 | 113 | Gertsch-56 Gertsch & others-6 Platnick & Shadab-12 |
2000–2013 | 43 | Ledford et al.-10 |
Number of species described by Chamberlin and Gertsch and co-authors in Texas.
Ch | Ch & I | G | G & D | G & I | G & M | G & W | |
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<1922 | 12 | ||||||
1922–1932 | 37 | 1 | |||||
1933 | 1 | 9 | |||||
1934 | 10 | ||||||
1935 | 8 | 20 | 6 | ||||
1936 | 10 | 17 | 15 | 8 | 28 | 1 | |
1937–1939 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
1940 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 17 | ||
1941–1947 | 16 | 11 | 3 | ||||
1950’s | 5 | ||||||
1960’s | 3 | ||||||
1970’s | 8 | ||||||
1980’s | 5 | ||||||
1990’s | 51 | ||||||
Total | 65 | 32 | 143 | 19 | 8 | 45 | 8 |
Year | S. Mulaik | S. & D. Mulaik | L. I. Davis | J. R. Reddell | Other | Unknown | Total |
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earlier | 7 | 2 | 9 | ||||
1933 | 8 | 3 | 11 | ||||
1934 | 35 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 45 | ||
1935 | 27 | 6 | 4 | 37 | |||
1936 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 17 | |||
1937 | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||
1938 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
1939 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 11 | |||
1940 | 2 | 2 | |||||
1941 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
1942–48 | 4 | 1 | 5 | ||||
1950 | 2 | 2 | |||||
1952 | 4 | 4 | |||||
1956–59 | 5 | 5 | |||||
1960 | 3 | 3 | |||||
1961 | 2 | 2 | |||||
1962 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
1963 | 12 | 4 | 16 | ||||
1964 | 8 | 2 | 10 | ||||
1965 | 4 | 4 | |||||
1966 | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||
1967–69 | 1 | 6 | 7 | ||||
1970’s | 2 | 12 | 14 | ||||
1980’s | 1 | 12 | 13 | ||||
1990’s | 3 | 7 | 10 | ||||
2000- | 2 | 9 | 11 | ||||
no date | 9 | 11 | 42 | 62 | |||
Total | 88 | 11 | 22 | 38 | 110 | 47 | 316 |
Comparison of number of genera and species in this publication versus
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Family | Number genera | Number species | Number genera | Number species |
Atypidae | 1 | 2 | ||
Ctenizidae | 1 | 7 | 1 | 5 |
Dipluridae | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Euctenizidae | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
Theraphosidae | 1 | 18 | 1 | 11 |
Agelenidae | 5 | 15 | 5 | 11 |
Amphinectidae | 1 | 1 | ||
Anyphaenidae | 5 | 19 | 1 | 2 |
Araneidae | 28 | 94 | 17 | 34 |
Caponiidae | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Clubionidae | 2 | 12 | 2 | 12 |
Corinnidae | 4 | 15 | 1 | 1 |
Ctenidae | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Dictynidae | 12 | 115 | 11 | 48 |
Diguetidae | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
Dysderidae | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Eutichuridae | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
Filistatidae | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
Gnaphosidae | 22 | 104 | 15 | 33 |
Hahniidae | 2 | 7 | 1 | 2 |
Hersiliidae | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Leptonetidae | 3 | 21 | 1 | 1 |
Linyphiidae | 27 | 74 | 12 | 25 |
Liocranidae | 1 | 1 | ||
Lycosidae | 17 | 86 | 14 | 37 |
Mimetidae | 2 | 7 | 2 | 4 |
Miturgidae | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Mysmenidae | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Nephilidae | 1 | 1 | ||
Nesticidae | 2 | 8 | 2 | 2 |
Oecobiidae | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
Oonopidae | 6 | 9 | 5 | 7 |
Oxyopidae | 3 | 15 | 3 | 12 |
Philodromidae | 6 | 38 | 5 | 13 |
Pholcidae | 10 | 18 | 8 | 12 |
Phrurolithidae | 4 | 11 | 3 | 5 |
Pisauridae | 3 | 8 | 2 | 3 |
Plectreuridae | 1 | 1 | ||
Prodidomidae | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Salticidae | 49 | 147 | 32 | 62 |
Scytodidae | 1 | 6 | 1 | 5 |
Segestriidae | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Selenopidae | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Sicariidae | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 |
Sparassidae | 3 | 3 | ||
Symphytognathidae | 1 | 1 | ||
Tetragnathidae | 6 | 17 | 3 | 7 |
Theridiidae | 34 | 96 | 31 | 75 |
Thomisidae | 11 | 45 | 8 | 29 |
Titanoecidae | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
Trachelidae | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
Uloboridae | 5 | 9 | 4 | 6 |
Zoropsidae | 2 | 6 | 1 | 3 |
Total | 311 | 1084 | 215 | 499 |
General: Some areas of Texas have been heavily collected (Rio Grande Valley, Austin, College Station, Wichita Falls) while many areas remain little collected.
Sampling of counties: Many studies of spiders have been undertaken in Texas. Those based on a particular county include: Brazos (
Sampling of agroecosystems: Many agroecosystems have been studied: cabbage (
Jackman et al. (2008) studied the spiders collected from a large web at Lake Tawakoni State Park that received worldwide attention. A website (http://www.texasento.net/Social_Spider.htm) maintains the history of this story and mentions other webs. The major species involved was Tetragnatha guatemalensis O. P.-Cambridge. Two orb-weaver species that contributed to the web included Larinioides cornutus (Clerck) and Metazygia wittfeldae (McCook). A large web was found in 2010 at the Nails Creek Unit of Lake Somerville State Park in Lee County and another one in 2015 at Lakeside Park South in Dallas County. Both of these webs included the same species.
Sampling of families: Studies of specific families of spiders include: Gnaphosidae (
Miscellaneous sampling: Spiders collected by mud dauber wasps were studied by
Theses and dissertations on Texas spiders: An online search of colleges and universities in Texas has turned up 46 theses and dissertations on Texas spiders that were identified either as the focus of the study or part of it. That includes 12 different colleges/universities (Lamar University in Beaumont [2], Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls [16], North Texas State University in Denton [1], Southern Methodist University in Dallas [1], Texas A&M University in College Station [13], Texas Tech University in Lubbock [2], Texas A&M International University in Laredo [1], Texas Christian University in Fort Worth [2], University of Houston [1], University of Texas at Arlington [3], University of Texas in Austin [3], and West Texas A&M University at Canyon [1].
Seventeen did not publish their work:
An additional twenty-nine published their work [citation in brackets]:
Collectors: Many people have collected spiders in Texas. Among the earliest were Stanley and Dorothea Mulaik who collected many spiders from 1933–1940, mostly from 1934–1935, and holotypes of 99 species. They were counselors at several camps in the summer and Stanley taught at several institutions. They collected spiders, scorpions, turtles, and other small invertebrates mostly from the Rio Grande Valley toward Laredo and were paid a few cents each by the American Museum of Natural History. They moved to Utah in 1939 where Stanley pursued his PhD with Dr. Ralph Chamberlin. He described new taxa of isopods in his dissertation. He taught for many years and he and his wife were involved in several organizations. L. Irby Davis collected mostly in Cameron Co. from 1934–1936 with 22 holotypes collected. He went on to become a noted ornithologist. James Reddell studied cave fauna for many years and collected 38 holotypes from caves from 1962–2001 and an additional 7 species with colleagues, and greatly improved the knowledge of the fauna of Texas caves. The author has collected in more than one-half of Texas counties. A table containing numbers of species by county is in the appendix.
General keys to spiders include
Early workers were Europeans who described American species: Baron Charles A. Walckenaer from France (total of 47 species, 19 in 1837 and 22 in 1841), Count Eugen Keyserling from Germany (total of 54 species, 16 in 1880 and 12 in 1884), and others. Octavius P.-Cambridge from England (35 species from 1861–1902) and his nephew F. O. P.-Cambridge from England (15 species from 1899–1904) described many new spiders from Central America.
Twelve countries outside of the United States are represented mostly in the nineteenth century including England-66 species (5 workers), France-83 species (9 workers), and Germany-79 (7 workers).
Early workers from America include: Nicholas M. Hentz (total of 98 species from 1821–1850, 11 in 1844, 15 in 1846, 32 in 1847, and 24 in 1850), James H. Emerton (total of 51 species from 1875–1924, 22 in 1882, 5 in 1884, 6 in 1890, and 4 in 1913), George W. and Elizabeth Peckham (total of 41 species from 1883–1909, 10 in 1888, 10 in 1901, and 9 in 1909), and Nathan Banks (total of 85 species from 1892–1926, 10 in 1892, 12 in 1895, 15 in 1896, 13 in 1898, 5 in 1901, and 13 in 1904). Henry C. McCook described 9 species from 1887–1894 and Thomas H. Montgomery described 9 species from 1902–1904.
Later American authors include: Ralph V. Chamberlin (total of 65 species from 1908–1940, 8 in 1919, 11 in 1922, 13 in 1924, 10 in 1936). He collaborated with three authors: Gertsch (11 species), Ivie (32 species from 1933–1945, 8 in 1935, 6 in 1944), and Angus M. Woodbury (3 species in 1929).
Willis J. Gertsch described 143 species from 1932–1992, 9 in 1933, 10 in 1934, 20 in 1935, 17 in 1936, 6 in 1941, 8 in 1974, 5 in 1984, and 51 in 1992. During the 1930’s, he collaborated with L. Irby Davis (19 species, 15 in 1936) and Stanley Mulaik (45 species, 28 in 1936, 17 in 1940). Gertsch also co-authored papers with Allan F. Archer (4 species), Wilton Ivie (8 species), Howard K. Wallace (8 species), Franklin Ennik (2 species), Norman I. Platnick (1 species), and Susan E. Riechert (3 species). Gertsch also collected in many localities in the United States and Mexico.
Herbert W. Levi described 23 species of araneids and theridiids from 1953–2003. Norman I. Platnick described 7 species and 12 with Mohammed Shadab from 1975–1988. James C. Cokendolpher described 9 species and 7 with other authors. Joel Ledford and coauthors described 10 species of leptonetids in 2012.
A total of 316 species were described from Texas and named from the following categories: location (11 city/town, 16 county, 21 state, 10 other); person (16 collector, 7 arachnologist, 40 other); appearance (18 morphology, 6 eyes, 3 color, 2 markings, 10 size); 2 Indian; 9 name of cave; 5 mountains; and 140 miscellaneous. Nine species were named after Stanley and Dorothea Mulaik who collected many spiders from Texas in the 1930’s.
Counties and number of species collected include: Brewster (1), Brooks (1), Cameron (6), Hays (2), Hidalgo (58), Jeff Davis (1), Jim Wells (1), Kendall (1), Kerr (3), Kleberg (1), Matagorda (1), Randall (1), Starr (7), Terrell (5), Tom Green (1), Val Verde (3), Webb (1), and Zapata (5).
Counties and number of species collected include: Bexar (3), Brewster (1), Cameron (10), Kendall (1), Llano (6), and Travis (1).
Counties and number of species collected include: Bandera (1), Bell (2), Bexar (5), Burnet (1), Childress (1), Coryell (1), Culberson (1), Hays (2), Kendall (1), Medina (2), Menard (1), Real (1), San Saba (2), Sutton (1), Travis (4), Uvalde (4), Val Verde (6), and Williamson (2).
Listing under each species where data is available:
Distribution. general distribution followed by Texas counties in which it occurs
Locality. parks, forests, caves, etc.
caves by county
Time of activity. month (s) of year males and females were collected, a range in “” is a period with no month specified
Habitat. habitat (divided by category: crops, grass, landscape features, littoral, nest/prey, objects, orchard, plants, soil/woodland, structures, web)
Method. collecting method with sex (m=male, f=female) of spider(s) collected by each method
Eggs/spiderlings. number of eggs found in an eggsac or number of spiderlings found in an eggsac or on a female spider (i.e., collected from pitfall trap)
Type. data on species type specimen
Male/Female. noted if only one sex is known
Etymology. origin of species name
Collection. museums where collection data was obtained
Note. note on location or species
These books (
Localities listed as “the Basin” in Brewster Co. are listed here as Chisos Basin.
Collection abbreviations are: JCC (James C. Cokendolpher, personal collection), MSU (Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls), TAMU (Texas A&M University Insect Collection, College Station, part of author’s personal collection has been donated), TMM (Texas Memorial Museum, Austin- now named Texas Natural History Collections), TTU (Texas Tech University, Lubbock), WTAM (West Texas A&M University, Canyon), AMNH (American Museum of Natural History, New York), DMNS (Denver Museum of Nature & Science), FSCA (Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville), MCZ (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Boston), NMSU (New Mexico State University, Las Cruces), SIUC (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale), and USNM (United States National Museum, Washington, D. C.).
Spiders are divided by suborder, then alphabetical by family, genus and species.
Note. species incorrectly reported from Texas
Antrodiaetus robustus (Simon, 1891);
Brachybothrium robustum Simon, 1891;
Sphodros paisano
Cameron, Travis
Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary
Male (May 31-August 10); female (March)
Mexico, Tamaulipas, Rancho El Milagro, Cruillas
Spanish, noun, countryman
Sphodros rufipes
Atypus bicolor Lucas, 1836; Gertsch, 1979: 124
Liberty
Female (January)
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Latin, color
Note. species incorrectly reported from Texas
Bothriocyrtum californicum O. P.-Cambridge, 1874;
Ummidia absoluta
Pachylomerides absolutus
Bandera
Female (“July-August”)
Texas (female, Bandera Co., Bandera, July-August 1937, B. Hale, holotype, AMNH)
[male unknown]
Latin, easily separated species
Ummidia audouini
Pachylomerides audouini (Lucas, 1835);
East Texas
Unknown
Person (arachnologist)
Ummidia beatula
Pachylomerides beatulus
Dallas
Female (December)
Texas (female, Dallas Co., 5–6 miles S Dallas, December 1937, J. C. Sanders, holotype, AMNH)
[male unknown]
Latin, fine spider
Ummidia celsa
Pachylomerides celsus
Gertsch and Mulaik, 1940;
Zapata
Male (August)
Texas (male, Zapata Co., 32 miles SW Laredo, August 4, 1935, S. Mulaik, holotype)
[female unknown]
Latin, chelicerae nearly black, prominent, rugose
32 miles SW Laredo should be 32 miles SE Laredo in Zapata Co. based on other records from this date.
Ummidia funerea
Pachylomerus funereus Gertsch, 1936;
Pachylomerides funereus (Gertsch, 1936);
Ummidia funereus (Gertsch, 1936);
Hidalgo, Webb, Wichita
Male (April – June, September)
Texas (male, Hidalgo Co., Edinburg, June 1, 1935, S. Mulaik, holotype, AMNH)
[female unknown]
Latin, funereal
MSU
Ummidia pygmaea
Pachylomerides pygmaeus Chamberlin and Ivie 1945 [
Wichita
Oklahoma, Eagletown
Latin, pygmy
MSU
Ummidia tuobita
Pachylomerus tuobitus Chamberlin, 1917 [
Pachylomerides tuobitus (Chamberlin, 1917) [
Brewster
Illinois
Latin, a tube
MSU
Euagrus chisoseus
Euagrus ravenus Gertsch & Mulaik, 1940;
Euagrus apacheus Gertsch & Mulaik, 1940;
Central and west Texas; Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Brewster, Burnet, Comal, Crockett, Culberson, Edwards, Hays, Jeff Davis, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Llano, Presidio, Sutton, Terrell, Travis, Uvalde, Wichita
Bastrop State Park, Big Bend National Park, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Chisos Basin, Chisos Mountains, Davis Mountains, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Inks Lake State Park, Lake Travis, Mo Ranch, Pedernales Falls State Park, Raven Ranch, Travis Park, Zilker Park
Edwards (Punkin Cave)
Male (March – October, December); female (February – December)
(landscape features: cave, crevices in steep road bank, under [rock, stone, stones at edge of limestone creek in disturbed area]); (littoral: by creek at light, creek); (soil/woodland: oak woods, oak-juniper woods, oak-pine litter, under log); (web: tubular-maze webs in crevices in steep road bank, web in duff covered ravine bank)
Berlese funnel [f]; carrion trap [m]
Texas (male, Brewster Co., Chisos Mountains, Chisos Basin, August 2, 1938, no collector, holotype, AMNH)
locality (mountains)
MSU, NMSU, TMM, TTU
Euagrus comstocki
Evagrus comstocki Gertsch, 1935;
Hidalgo, Starr, Webb, Zapata
Male (March – April, September, November); female (January, March – April, June – July, September – November)
(soil/woodland: under shrub)
Texas (male, Hidalgo Co., Edinburg, November 11, 1934, S. Mulaik, holotype, AMNH)
Person (arachnologist)
32 miles E Laredo and 32 miles SW Laredo should be 32 miles SE Laredo in Zapata Co. based on other records from this date.
Note.genera transferred from Cyrtaucheniidae by Bond & Hedin, in
Entychides arizonicus
Eutychides arizonicus Gertsch & Wallace, 1936 [
Entychides arizonica Gertsch & Wallace, 1936;
Archer, Bell, Brazos, Brewster, Brown, Erath, San Patricio, Travis, Wichita.
Big Bend National Park, Chisos Basin, Lick Creek Park
Male (January, April, August – October, December); female (March, December)
Flight intercept trap on ground [m]
Arizona, Santa Catalina Mountains, Sabino Basin
locality (state)
MSU, TAMU
Eucteniza relata
Astrosoga rex Chamberlin, 1940;
Eucteniza rex (Chamberlin, 1940);
Myrmekiaphila comstocki Bishop & Crosby, 1926;
Astrosoga stolida Gertsch & Mulaik, 1940;
Astrosoga solida Gertsch & Mulaik, 1940;
Eucteniza stolida (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1940);
Atascosa, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Dimmit, Duval, Hidalgo, Houston, Kendall, Kenedy, Kerr, Kleberg, La Salle, Midland, Nueces, Sabine, San Patricio, Starr, Sutton, Travis, Ward, Webb, Zapata
Bastrop State Park, Raven Ranch
Travis (Austin Caverns)
Male (January – February, June – July, September – December); female (February – September, November – December)
(landscape features: cave)
Mexico, Amula in Guerrero
Latin, returned
MSU, TAMU, TMM
Eucteniza ronnewtoni
Brewster, Val Verde
Male (September – October)
(landscape features: on rocks)
Texas (male, Val Verde Co., at bridge on Pecos River, September 2, 1968, J. A. Brubaker, F. J. Moore, holotype, AMNH)
Person (The specific epithet is a patronym in honor of Dr. Ronald Newton, biologist and Texas native,
Myrmekiaphila comstocki
Myrmekiaphila fluviatilis (Hentz, 1850);
Myrmeciophila fluviatilis (Hentz, 1850);
Myrmeciophila comstocki Bishop & Crosby, 1926;
Brazos, Cherokee, Clay, Coryell, Grimes, Hardeman, Hidalgo, Houston, Hunt, Kimble, Kleberg, Leon, Madison, Montague, Nacogdoches, Travis, Trinity, Walker, Wichita
Lick Creek Park, Riley Estate
Male (February – May, October – November); female (April, May, July)
(grass: sandy grassland, short grass); (littoral: sandy area, sandy by water); (soil/woodland: disturbed habitat, pine woods [%: 66, 82, 86, 97], post oak savanna with pasture, post oak woodland, post oak woods [%: 41, 49, 56, 74, 77, 82, 84, 92, 96], upland woods); (structures: front porch, under newspaper in garage)
5 gallon bucket trap [m]; pitfall trap [m]
Texas (male, Travis Co., Austin, March 12-18, 1903, J. H. Comstock, holotype, AMNH)
Person (collector)
MSU, TAMU
Palp keys out to M. foliata Atkinson, 1886 because the distal dilation of metatarsus I is large (see fig. 14 in
Note. species incorrectly reported from Texas
Brachythele longitarsis Simon, 1891;
Note. species incorrectly reported from Texas
Aphonopelma seemanni (Ausserer, 1875) [not in Texas]
Eurypelma seemanni Ausserer, 1875;
nomen dubium
Aphonopelma californicum Ausserer, 1871;
Eurypelma californicum Ausserer, 1871;
Aphonopelma pseudoroseum (Strand, 1907);
Eurypelma pseudoroseum Strand, 1907;
Delopelma pseudoroseum (Strand, 1907);
Tapinauchenius texensis Simon, 1891;
Aphonopelma anax
Dugesiella anax Chamberlin, 1940;
Cameron, Kleberg, Zapata
Falcon International Reservoir
Texas (male, Kleberg Co., Kingsville, no date, J. C. Cross, holotype, AMNH)
Greek, regal
DMNS
Aphonopelma armada
Dugesiella armada Chamberlin, 1940;
Travis
Female (September)
Texas (female, Travis Co., Austin, September 1909, A. Petrunkevitch, holotype, AMNH)
[male unknown]
Latin, character of armature of coxae
Aphonopelma arnoldi
Crosby
Male (June)
Texas (male, Crosby Co., Crosbyton, June 17, 1963, P. Keathley, holotype, Oklahoma State University)
[female unknown]
Person (Named after D. C. Arnold of the Oklahoma State University Entomology Department,
Aphonopelma breenei
Cameron
Female (November)
Texas (female, Cameron Co., Harlingen, November 1939, B. Brown, holotype, AMNH)
[male unknown]
Person (Named after the late Dr. Robert Breene who with Barbara Moore founded the American Tarantula Society in 1991,
Aphonopelma clarki
Dallas
Female (January)
Texas (female, Dallas Co., Dallas, January 25, 1959, H. J. Berman, holotype, BMNH)
Person (Named after the late Douglas John Clark, curator of arachnology, BMNH, [1931–1971] who died at the tragically young age of 41. A theraphosid enthusiast, he had many live tarantulas in his office. Over the years, as I have worked through the specimen jars, one by one, I have often found him there before me,
Aphonopelma echinum [
Dugesiella echina Chamberlin, 1940;
Brewster, Kerr, Presidio
Big Bend National [State] Park
Male (March, November)
Colorado, Arkansas Valley
[female unknown]
Greek, spiny, hedge-hog like
MSU
Aphonopelma gurleyi
Cooke
Texas (male, Cooke Co., Sherman, Moss Lake, no date, R. Gurley, BMNH)
[female unknown]
Person (Named after the collector, amateur entomologist/arachnologist and naturalist, Russ Gurley,
Aphonopelma harlingenum
Dugesiella harlingena Chamberlin, 1940;
Dugesiella harlingen (Chamberlin, 1940);
Aphonopelma harlingena (Chamberlin, 1940);
Cameron, Hidalgo
Texas (female, Cameron Co., Harlingen, no date, B. Brown, holotype, AMNH)
[male unknown]
locality (city)
Aphonopelma hentzi
Mygale hentzii Girard, 1852;
Eurypelma hentzii (Girard, 1852);
Eurypelma hentzi (Girard, 1852);
Dugesiella hentzi (Girard, 1852);
Rhechostica hentzi (Girard, 1852);
Archer, Brown, Carson, Clay, Dallas, Nacogdoches, Potter, Starr, Taylor, Travis, Wichita, Wilbarger
Pantex Lake, Wildcat Bluff Nature Center, W. J. Wagoneer Estate
Male (June – September); female (April – June, September – October, December)
(grass: grassland); (landscape features: under rock); (littoral: near playa); (structures: lawn, service station)
unknown
Person (arachnologist)
MSU, TTU
Aphonopelma heterops
Hidalgo
Female (“September-December”)
Texas (female, Hidalgo Co., Edinburg, September-December, 1933, S. Mulaik, holotype, AMNH)
[male unknown]
Greek, different, mixed (heter-) + eyes (-ops)
Aphonopelma hollyi
Lubbock
Male (August)
Texas (male, Lubbock Co., Lubbock, August 1981, C. Moody, holotype, Oklahoma State University)
[female unknown]
Person (Named after the singer Buddy Holly who was born in Lubbock,
Aphonopelma marxi
Eurypelma marxi Simon, 1891;
Aphonopelma simulatum Chamberlin & Ivie, 1939;
Hidalgo
unknown
[female unknown]
Person (arachnologist)
Aphonopelma moderatum
Delopelma moderatum Chamberlin & Ivie, 1939;
Delopelma modoratum Chamberlin & Ivie, 1939;
Maverick, Starr, Zapata
Male (March, May); female (September)
Texas (male, Starr Co., 5 miles E Rio Grande City, May 1, 1937, S. Mulaik, holotype, AMNH)
Latin, moderate
DMNS
32 miles SW Laredo should be 32 miles SE Laredo in Zapata Co. based on other records from this date.
Aphonopelma mordax
Eurypelma mordax Ausserer, 1871;
Texas
unknown
[male unknown]
Latin, biting
Aphonopelma rusticum
Eurypelma rusticum Simon, 1891; F. O. P.-
Texas
Mexico
[female unknown]
Latin, rusty abdominal color
Aphonopelma steindachneri
Eurypelma steindachneri Ausserer, 1875;
Brewster, Dallas, Pecos
Big Bend National Park, Chisos Basin, Chisos Mountains
unknown
Person
MCZ
Aphonopelma texense
Eurypelma texense Simon, 1891;
Rhechostica texense (Simon, 1891);
Rhechostica texensis (Simon, 1891);
Aphonopelma texensis (Simon, 1891);
Maverick, Starr, Zapata
Texas (male, no location, 1880’s, G. Marx, holotype, USNM)
[female unknown]
locality (state)
Aphonopelma waconum
Dugesiella wacona Chamberlin, 1940;
McLennan
Male (July)
Texas (male, McLennan Co., Waco, July 5, 1931, no collector, holotype, AMNH)
[female unknown]
locality (city)
Agelenopsis aleenae
Blanco, Briscoe, Clay, Dallas, Howard, Jeff Davis, Llano, San Saba
Caprock Canyons State Park, Davis Mountains Resort, Lake Arrowhead State Park
San Saba (Dove Cave)
Male (May, October); female (September)
(landscape features: cave); (soil/woodland: saltcedar)
Malaise trap [f]
New Mexico, Suwanee
Person (Named for Aleen Ivie, wife of arachnologist Wilton Ivie, who collected the specimen,
NMSU, TAMU, TMM
Agelenopsis aperta
Agelena aperta Gertsch, 1934;
Agelenopsis apertus (Gertsch, 1934);
Agelenopsis aperta guttata Chamberlin & Ivie, 1941;
Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Brazos, Brewster, Burleson, Dallas, Edwards, El Paso, Fort Bend, Hidalgo, Kerr, Liberty, Pecos, Randall, Reeves, San Patricio, Tom Green, Travis, Uvalde, Val Verde, Walker, Wichita, Williamson
Amistad National Recreational Area, Chisos Basin, Chisos Mountains, Fort Hood, Lick Creek Park, Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Raven Ranch
Bell (Rock Ring Sink [Fort Hood]); Bexar (Cave of the Half-Snake, Logan’s Cave); Travis (Root Cave); Williamson (Three-Mile Cave)
Male (May – September); female (June – December)
(landscape features: cave); (littoral: grassy field, near water, palmetto-cypress swamp); (soil/woodland: upland deciduous forest)
Flight intercept trap on ground [m]; pitfall trap [f]
Colorado, east of Boulder, Valmont Buttes
Latin, opened
DMNS, MCZ, TAMU, TMM
Agelenopsis emertoni
Agelenopsis aperta (Gertsch, 1934);
Agelenopsis nr emertoni Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935;
Agelenopsis nr pennsylvanica (C. L. Koch, 1843);
Anderson, Bastrop, Bell, Brazos, Burleson, Dallas, Grayson, Grimes, Houston, Hunt, Leon, McLennan, Madison, Nueces, San Patricio, Trinity, Walker, Wichita
Lake Tawakoni State Park, Lick Creek Park, Welder Wildlife Refuge, White Rock Lake
Male (April, July – November); female (April – June, August – October)
(grass: grass); (littoral: moist salt beach); (soil/woodland: disturbed habitat, forest, pine woods [%: 60, 66, 69, 77, 80, 84, 86, 95, 97], post oak savanna with pasture, post oak woods [%: 60, 76, 82, 85, 93, 100], sandy area, sandy brushland, upland woods); (web: large spider web)
5 gallon bucket trap [mf]; beating [mf]; pitfall trap [mf]
Texas (male, Bell Co., Belton, September 1, 1933, W. Ivie, holotype, AMNH)
Person (Named for arachnologist James H. Emerton,
DMNS, MCZ, MSU, TAMU
Agelenopsis kastoni
Cherokee, Grimes, Harris, Leon, Madison, Rusk, Sabine, Trinity, Tyler, Walker
Kirby State Forest
Male (March 26-April 4, April, April 24-May 3)
(soil/woodland: beech-magnolia forest, pine woods [%: 66, 86, 97], post oak woods [%: 49, 71, 91, 92, 94, 96])
5 gallon bucket trap [m]; flight intercept trap/malaise trap [m]; flight intercept trap on ground [m]; malaise trap [m]
Connecticut, Haddam
Person (Named for arachnologist Benjamin J. Kaston who collected the holotype,
MSU, TAMU
Agelenopsis longistyla
Agelenopsis longistylus (Banks, 1901);
McCulloch, Oldham
Female (September – October)
New Mexico, White Mountains
Latin, long stylus on palp
Agelenopsis naevia
Agelena naevia Walckenaer, 1841;
Anderson, Angelina, Bastrop, Brazos, Brown, Dallas, Fort Bend, Grimes, Henderson, Hidalgo, Houston, Howard, Jeff Davis, Leon, Madison, Montgomery, Nacogdoches, Polk, Presidio, Rusk, Smith, Walker, Waller, Wichita, Wise
Chihuahuan desert, Dalquest Research Site, Decker’s Prairie, Lick Creek Park, Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Texas A&M University Rangeland Area
Male (March – July, October); female (February – March, June – October)
(grass: short grass); (landscape features: under rock); (soil/woodland: pine woods [%: 73, 74, 77, 80, 83, 100], post oak woods [%: 48, 70, 75, 76, 80, 85, 90, 100], saltcedar, tree bark); (web: base of house in web, web across creek bed)
5 gallon bucket trap [mf]; pitfall trap [m]
Georgia
Latin, spotted
DMNS, MCZ, MSU, NMSU, TAMU
Agelenopsis oklahoma
Agelenopsis nr oklahoma (Gertsch, 1936);
Brazos, Clay
Lake Arrowhead State Park, Lick Creek Park
Male (April)
(soil/woodland: upland woods)
pitfall trap [m]
Oklahoma, Stillwater
locality (Named for the state from which the species was described,
TAMU
Agelenopsis spatula
Agelena spathula (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935);
Archer, Brazos, Briscoe, Clay, Dallam, Erath, Frio, Houston, Liberty, Roberts, Travis, Wichita, Williamson
Caprock Canyons State Park, Lake Kickapoo
Male (September – October); female (February, May, September – November)
(crops: peanuts); (grass: short grass); (littoral: rocks near water, under rock); (soil/woodland: on ground, pine woods [%: 88])
5 gallon bucket trap [f]; pitfall trap [mf]
Texas (male, Wichita Co., Wichita Falls, September 3, 1933, W. Ivie, holotype, AMNH)
Latin, spoon shaped palp
DMNS, MCZ, MSU, TAMU
Barronopsis texana
Agelena texana Gertsch, 1934;
Agelenopsis texana (Gertsch, 1934);
Anderson, Aransas, Blanco, Brazoria, Brazos, Cameron, Dallas, Denton, Fannin, Harris, Hidalgo, Hunt, Kerr, Nacogdoches, Sabine, Travis, Trinity
Lake Dallas, Lake Tawakoni State Park, Lick Creek Park, Thurmond Lake, White Rock Lake, Zilker Park
Male (March, October – December, December 2-January 17); female (March – May, October – December, December 2-January 17)
(grass: in grass near woods); (soil/woodland: ground, mix-pine forest, oak forest, oak woods, palm, pine woods [%: 69], under [bark, log])
5 gallon bucket trap [m]; flight intercept trap [m]; malaise trap [mf]
Texas (male, Hidalgo Co., Edinburg, no date, S. Mulaik, holotype, AMNH)
locality (state)
MCZ, MSU, TAMU
Note. genus transferred here from Amaurobiidae (
Coras alabama
Nacogdoches
Female (March)
(objects: under board in empty lot)
Alabama, Madison Co., Monte Sano
locality (state)
Coras lamellosus [
Anderson, Denton, Grayson, Hardin, Kleberg
Padre Island
Male (November); female (March – April)
(soil/woodland: wooded area)
Virginia, Fort Monroe; Pennsylvania, Altoona; Lake Superior
Latin, refers to a thin plate
MCZ, MSU
Coras medicinalis
Dallas
unknown
Latin, web used as narcotic in cases of fever
Tegenaria domestica Jackman, 1997: 94, desc., 160;
Tegenaria derhami (Scopoli, 1763);
Bexar, Dallas, Lubbock
Bexar (Cave With A View)
Female (June)
(landscape features: cave)
Sweden
Greek, “of the house”
JCC, TMM
Tegenaria pagana
Tegenaria antrias Crosby, 1926;
Tegenaria simplex Bryant, 1936;
Central and northeast Texas; Coryell, Dallas, Fannin, Hays, San Saba, Travis, Wichita
Hays (Ezell’s Cave); San Saba (Bremer Cave)
Male (November); female (February, April, November)
(landscape features: cave)
Greece
Latin, rustic
MSU, TMM
Tortolena dela
Hidalgo
Female (October)
Texas (female, Hidalgo Co., 7 miles E Edinburg, October 14, 1934, S. Mulaik, holotype, AMNH)
[male unknown]
undetermined
Note. genus transferred here from Amaurobiidae (
Metaltella simoni
Bexar, Brazos, Colorado, Galveston, Harris, Hidalgo, Leon (imm.), Montgomery, Orange, San Patricio, Wichita
Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Lick Creek Park
Bexar (Robber Baron Cave)
Male (May – June, August, October – December); female (April – June, August, October – November)
(landscape features: cave); (littoral: near water); (objects: wood pile); (soil/woodland: debris under banana trees, leaf litter, post oak savanna, post oak woods [%: 70]); (structures: bathroom, indoors, in structure [bit collector causing reaction], on bed in house)
5 gallon bucket trap [imm.]; pitfall trap [mf]
Uruguay
Person (arachnologist)
MSU, TAMU, TMM
Anyphaena celer
East Texas; Galveston, Wichita
(grass: grass and shrub area)
Alabama and North Carolina
Latin, swift
MSU
Anyphaena dixiana
Brewster, Erath, Hays, Kerr
Male (December 16-January 26); female (January 27-February 24, April, December 16-January 26)
(landscape features: under rock); (soil/woodland: Juniperus managed plot, upland deciduous forest)
Flight intercept trap on ground [f]; flight intercept trap elevated [m]
Utah, St. George
New Latin, apart
TAMU
Anyphaena fraterna
Central and north Texas; Brazos, Burleson/Lee, Erath, Kerr, Montgomery, Sabine, Travis, Wichita
Lick Creek Park
Male (March – May, May 22-June 4); female (March – May, June 23-July 2)
(soil/woodland: beech-magnolia forest, bottomland forest, upland deciduous forest, Quercus buckleyi, Ulmus crassifolia); (structures: house)
Flight intercept trap [f]; flight intercept trap elevated [m]; malaise trap [mf]; pitfall trap [m]; sweeping [f]
New York, Sea Cliff
Latin, brotherly
DMNS, MSU, TAMU
Anyphaena lacka
San Patricio
Lake Corpus Christi State Park
Male (June)
Texas (male, San Patricio Co., SW Mathis, Lake Corpus Christi State Park, June 28, 1962, J. A. Beatty, holotype, MCZ)
[female unknown]
arbitrary combination of letters
Anyphaena maculata [
Brazos
Lick Creek Park
Female (December 2-January 17)
Malaise trap [f]
Washington D. C.
Latin, black spots on body
TAMU
Anyphaena pectorosa
North-central Texas; Brewster, Gonzalez, Jefferson, Polk, Travis
Palmetto State Park
Male (May – June); female (May)
(crops: rice); (soil/woodland: Quercus virginiana, Ulmus crassifolia)
Beating [m]; sweeping [m]
Maryland, Baltimore
Latin, breast
MSU, TAMU
Anyphaena rita
Brewster, Presidio
Chihuahuan desert, Dalquest Research Site
Male (“November/December”)
pitfall trap [m]
Arizona, Santa Catalina Mountains, Bear Canyon
locality (The specific name is a noun in apposition derived from the Santa Rita Mountains, where the species is abundant,
MSU
Hibana arunda
Aysha arunda Platnick, 1974;
Cameron, Falls, Hidalgo
Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Frontera Audubon, Resaca de la Palma State Park, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary
Male (March, May- October); female (February, April – November)
(crops: cotton, soybean); (grass: grass); (orchard: grapefruit, orange, tangerine); (soil-woodland: palm forest margin [resaca bank])
D-vac suction [m]
Texas (male, Hidalgo Co., Edinburg, May 1934, S. Mulaik, holotype, AMNH)
arbitrary combination of letters
MSU, TAMU
Hibana cambridgei
Aysha cambridgei Bryant, 1931;
North-central, central and west Texas; Bastrop, Brewster, Edwards, Hays, Henderson, Jeff Davis, Real, Sabine, Travis, Wichita
Bastrop State Park
Male (April – June); female (May – June)
(plants: roadside vegetation); (soil/woodland: beech-magnolia forest, Juniperus managed plot, roadside vegetation, trees, Juniperus ashei, Quercus buckleyi, Quercus virginiana, Ulmus crassifolia)
Beating [mf]; flight intercept trap elevated [f]; malaise trap [f]; sweeping [mf]
Mexico, Guanajuato
Person (arachnologist)
MSU, TAMU
Hibana futilis
Anyphaena decepta Banks, 1899;
Aysha decepta (Banks, 1899);
Eastern ½ Texas; Bexar, Brazos, Burleson, Cameron, Coryell, Dallas, Erath, Falls, Galveston, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Mason, Medina, Nacogdoches, Robertson, Sabine, Travis, Washington, Wichita, Zavala
Adriance Pecan Orchard, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Frontera Audubon, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Kenedy Ranch, Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, Lick Creek Park, Russell Farm, Storey Pecan Orchard, Texas A&M University Rangeland Area
Male (January – December); female (January – December)
(crops: cotton, sugarcane); (grass: grass, grasses, grassy and shrub area); (littoral: salt marsh area); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest); (orchard: citrus, grapefruit, orange, pecan, sour orange); (plants: miscellaneous vegetation, Amaranthus palmeri); (soil/woodland: live oak, post oak savanna with pasture, sandy area, thorn thicket, trees/shrubs); (structures: house, indoors)
Beating [mf]; boll weevil pheromone trap [mf]; cardboard band [mf]; D-Vac suction [m]; flight intercept trap [mf]; fogging [mf]; irrigation tubing [mf]; malaise trap [m]; pitfall trap [mf]; suction trap [f]; sweeping [mf]
Mexico, Baja California
Latin, vain
DMNS, MSU, TAMU
Hibana gracilis
Aysha gracilis (Hentz, 1847);
Eastern ½ Texas; Angelina, Archer, Bexar, Brazos, Burleson, Cameron, Colorado, Comanche, Coryell, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Dickens, Duval, Erath, Fannin, Frio, Hidalgo, Houston, Karnes, Kenedy, McLennan, Robertson, Sabine, Stephens, Travis, Walker, Webb, Wichita, Young
Adriance Pecan Orchard, Angelina National Forest, Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Bill Haney Pecan Orchard, Ellis Prison Unit, Hoblitzelle Farms, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Sam Houston State Park
Male (January, March – September); female (March – December)
(crops: cotton, peanuts, soybean); (grass: grass, grassland); (landscape features: under rock); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest); (orchard: pecan); (plants: bluebonnets, croton, herbs, miscellaneous vegetation); (soil/woodland: beech-magnolia forest, post oak savanna with pasture, Juniperus ashei, Quercus buckleyi, Quercus virginiana, Ulmus crassifolia); (structures: indoors)
Beating [mf]; boll weevil pheromone trap [m]; cardboard band [mf]; D-Vac suction [m]; fogging [mf]; malaise trap [mf]; pitfall trap [mf]; suction trap [mf]; sweeping [mf]
North Carolina and Alabama
Latin, slender
DMNS, MSU, TAMU
Hibana incursa
Aysha incursa (Chamberlin, 1919);
Brewster, El Paso, Presidio
Big Bend National Park, Big Bend Ranch State Park
Male (March – April, July); female (May – June)
(orchard: pecan); (soil/woodland: cottonwood)
Beating [mf]; malaise trap [mf]
California, Claremont
Latin, attack
NMSU, TAMU
Hibana velox
Aysha velox (Becker, 1879);
Southeast Texas; Angelina, Brazos, Colorado, Fort Bend, Harris, Jefferson
Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge
Male (June, August); female (June, August)
sweeping [m]
Mississippi, Pascagoula
Latin, speedy
MSU, TAMU
Lupettiana mordax
Teudis mordax (O. P.-Cambridge, 1896);
Anyphaena sp. prob. celer (Hentz, 1847);
Anyphaena celer (Hentz, 1847);
East Texas; Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Goliad, Robertson, Sabine, Travis, Walker
Bastrop State Park, Ellis Prison Unit, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Lick Creek Park, Somerville Lake, Stetz Pecan Orchard, Texas A&M University Rangeland Area
Male (March – August); female (April – August)
(crops: cotton); (grass: tall grass prairie); (orchard: pecan); (plants: bluebonnets, Indian paintbrush, miscellaneous vegetation); (soil/woodland: beech-magnolia forest, live oak, trees, Juniperus ashei, Quercus buckleyi, Quercus virginiana, Ulmus crassifolia)
Beating [mf]; cardboard band [mf]; malaise trap [f]; pitfall trap [m]; suction trap [m]; sweeping [mf]
Mexico, Guerrero, Omiltemi
Latin, biting
TAMU
Pippuhana calcar
Teudis calcar Bryant, 1931;
Anyphaena schwarzi Gertsch, 1933;
South Texas; Brazos, Cameron, Hidalgo, San Patricio
Male (April); female (January, March)
Florida, Dunedin
Latin, spur on patella
TAMU
Wulfila albens
Wulfila alba (Hentz, 1847);
North-central Texas; Brazos, Gonzales, Sabine, Walker
Lick Creek Park, Palmetto State Park
Male (April – May); female (April 29-May 3, May 22–June 4, June)
(soil/woodland: beech-magnolia forest, trees)
Beating [m]; beating/sweeping [m]; malaise trap [f]
Alabama
Latin, lack of dark markings
TAMU
Wulfila bryantae
Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Wells
Frontera Audubon, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary, Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge
Male (April – June); female (March 3-April 4, April – December)
(orchard: grapefruit, orange, organic citrus grove); (soil/woodland: forest)
Flight intercept trap [f]
Texas (male, Hidalgo Co., 5 miles E Edinburg, April 20, 1937, S. Mulaik, holotype, AMNH)
Person (The specific name is a patronym in honor of Miss Elizabeth Bryant, in recognition of her pioneering work on North American anyphaenids,
TAMU
Wulfila saltabundus
Wulfila saltabunda (Hentz, 1847);
East and north-central Texas; Brazos, Galveston, Houston, Walker
Ellis Prison Unit, Sam Houston National Forest, Stubblefield Lake
Male (April, July – August); female (April, June – July)
(crops: cotton); (grass: grassland); (structures: indoors)
pitfall trap [m]
Alabama
Latin, continuous in forest
TAMU
Wulfila tantillus
Wulfila tantilla Chickering, 1940;
Central and south Texas; Bexar, Cameron, Hidalgo, Montague, Robertson, Travis, Webb, Wichita
Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Holmes Pecan Orchard
Bexar (Kick Start Cave)
Male (April, July); female (May, August, October)
(landscape features: cave); (orchard: pecan); (soil/woodland: Quercus virginiana, Ulmus crassifolia)
Beating [m]; cardboard band [f]; sweeping [m]
Panama, El Valle
Latin, so little
MSU, TAMU, TMM
Note. species incorrectly reported from Texas
Eustala rosae Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935;
Hypsosinga pygmaea (Sundevall, 1831);
Mastophora bisaccata (Emerton, 1884);
Neoscona moreli (Vinson, 1863) [not in Texas]
Neoscona neotheis (Petrunkevitch, 1911);
Aranea neotheis Petrunkevitch, 1911;
nomen dubium
Neoscona benjamina (Walckenaer, 1841);
Epeira benjamina Walckenaer, 1837;
Acacesia hamata
Epeira foliata Hentz, 1847;
Acacesia foliata (Hentz, 1847);
Southern ½ Texas; Brazos, Brewster, Cameron, Erath, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Nacogdoches, Robertson, San Patricio, Shelby, Travis (imm.), Walker
Ellis Prison Unit, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Kenedy Ranch, Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, Lake Corpus Christi State Park, Lick Creek Park, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary, Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge
Male (January, March – May, July – August, October); female (April, June, August – October)
(crops: cotton, sugarcane); (grass: grass, meadow); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [f]); (orchard: pecan); (plants: vegetation); (soil/woodland: palm forest margin [resaca bank], trees, woods, Juniperus ashei, Quercus buckleyi, Quercus virginiana, Ulmus crassifolia)
Beating [m]; cardboard band [imm.]; D-Vac suction [m]; malaise trap [m]; sweeping [mf]
Alabama
Latin, hooked
MSU, TAMU
Acanthepeira cherokee
Southeast Texas; Brazos, Colorado, Jefferson, Wichita
Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Lick Creek Park
Male (March, November); female (April – May, September, November)
(crops: cotton); (littoral: sedge meadow); (soil/woodland: post oak savanna)
Beating [f]; sweeping [mf]
North Carolina, Mud Creek
Indian tribe (The name is a noun in apposition, after the southeastern Indian tribe,
MSU, TAMU
Acanthepeira marion [
Fannin
Florida, Marion Co.
locality (The name is a noun in apposition, after the type locality,
MSU
Acanthepeira stellata
Marxia stellata (Hentz, 1805);
Acanthepeira stellata (Marx);
Eastern 2/3 Texas; Archer, Bastrop, Bee, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Cameron, Carson, Clay, Collin, Colorado, Dallas, Delta, Erath, Fannin, Fayette, Fort Bend, Galveston, Goliad, Grayson, Grimes, Houston, Hunt, Jefferson, Jim Wells, Kenedy, Limestone, McLennan, Nacogdoches, Nueces, Potter, Robertson, Sabine, Travis, Victoria, Walker, Wharton, Wichita, Willacy, Williamson, Young
Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Ellis Prison Unit, Galveston Island State Park, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Pantex Plant, Ramsey Prison Farm, Sam Houston State Park, Texas A&M University Rangeland Area, Wildcat Bluff Nature Center
Male (March – September, November – December); female (February – December)
(crops: cotton, guar, peanuts, rice); (grass: grassland, grassy and shrub area, pasture, shrubs and tall grass); (littoral: playa, near playa, salt marsh area); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [mf]); (orchard: pecan); (plants: bluebonnets, croton, Indian paintbrush, miscellaneous vegetation, Coreopsis sp., Monarda citriodora); (soil/woodland: beech-magnolia forest, pine); (structures: around house)
cardboard band [m]; malaise trap [m]; pitfall trap [m]; suction trap [m]; sweeping [mf]
Carolina (of 1805)
Latin, starred
DMNS, MSU, TAMU, TTU
Allocyclosa bifurca
Cyclosa bifurca (McCook, 1887);
Aransas, Cameron, Hidalgo, Kenedy, San Patricio
Goose Island State Park, Lake Corpus Christi Dam
Female (May – June, November – December)
(nest/prey: mud dauber nest [f] of Chalybion californicum); (orchard: grapefruit)
Florida, Merrit’s Island on Indian River, Fairyland
Latin, forked abdomen
TAMU
Araneus bicentenarius
Aranea kisatchia Archer, 1951;
Araneus kisatcheus Archer, 1951;
Central and southeast Texas; Brazos, Freestone, Gonzalez, Hays, Orange, Walker
Lick Creek Park, Palmetto State Park
Male (May); female (May – August)
(littoral: wetlands); (soil/woodland: oak)
Beating/sweeping [f]
Ohio, northwestern and Allegheny Mountains
bicentennial of Philadelphia
DMNS, TAMU
Araneus bonsallae
North-central Texas; Dallas, Wichita
Female (May)
(plants: vegetation); (soil/woodland: tree)
sweeping
California
Person (Miss Elizabeth F. Bonsall, who made the original drawings for nearly all the plates contained in the atlas by McCook)
MCZ, MSU, TAMU
Araneus cavaticus
East Texas; Harris
Kentucky, cave in Carter Co.
Latin, cave
Araneus cingulatus
North-central Texas; Travis, Walker
Ellis Prison Unit
Male (April – July); female (May – July, September)
(soil/woodland: Quercus virginiana, Ulmus crassifolia)
Beating [mf]; sweeping [mf]
Georgia
Latin, girdled
TAMU
Araneus cochise
Erath, Kerr, Travis
Male (March – May); female (March – June)
(soil/woodland: juniper, Juniperus ashei, Quercus virginiana)
Beating [mf]; sweeping [mf]
Erath [7 spiderlings in eggsac] [TAMU]
Arizona, Cochise Co., Chiricahua Mountains, Southwestern Research Station
locality (The name is a noun in apposition after the type locality, Levi, 1973).
MCZ, MSU, TAMU
Araneus detrimentosus
Cambridgepeira detrimentosa (O. P.-Cambridge, 1889);
Eastern ½ Texas; Atascosa, Bastrop, Bell, Brazos, Burleson, Cameron, Duval, Erath, Gillespie, Goliad, Hidalgo, Lee, Leon, Liberty, Navarro, Starr, Travis, Williamson
Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Falcon Lake State Park, Lake Somerville State Park [Nails Creek Unit], Riley Estate
Male (April – June, August – September); female (April – October)
(nest/prey: mud dauber nest [f]); (orchard: grapefruit, Valley lemon); (plants: Indian paintbrush); (soil/woodland: juniper, rock elm, shrubs, trees, Juniperus sp., Quercus virginiana, Ulmus sp.); (web: web in live oak, web on mesquite [Prosopis juliflora])
Beating [mf]; suction trap [m]; sweeping [m]
Guatemala
Latin, prone to detritus
DMNS, MCZ, TAMU
Araneus gemma
Bastrop, Brewster
Brewster (O.T.L. Cave)
Female (May)
(landscape features: cave)
California
Latin, bud or gem
DMNS, TMM
Araneus guttulatus [
Shelby
Male (August)
(plants: vegetation)
sweeping [m]
Georgia
Latin, for speckled
TAMU
Araneus illaudatus
Aranea illaudata Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936;
Araneus iliaudatus (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936);
Araneus pima Levi, 1971;
Brewster, Dallam, Galveston, Hidalgo, Jeff Davis, Kerr
Brewster (O.T.L. Cave)
Female (September – October)
(landscape features: cave); (structures: barns, under house eave); (soil/woodland: trees)
Texas (male, Hidalgo Co., Edinburg, September-December 1933, S. Mulaik, holotype, AMNH)
Greek, referring to a rope or band
DMNS, TAMU, TMM
Araneus juniperi
Conepeira llano Archer, 1951;
Brazos, Comanche, Llano, Robertson
Bill Haney Pecan Orchard, Holmes Pecan Orchard
Male (June – September); female (September)
Fogging [mf]
Maine, Portland, Peaks Island
collected in junipers
TAMU
Araneus kerr
Kerr
Raven Ranch
Female (June)
Texas (female, Kerr Co., Raven Ranch, June 1941, J. Stillwagon, holotype, AMNH)
[male unknown]
locality (The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality,
Araneus marmoreus
Southeast and east Texas; Brazos, Gonzales, Nacogdoches, Rusk, San Jacinto
Big Creek Scenic Area, Lick Creek Park, Palmetto State Park
Female (September, November)
(littoral: sedge meadow, wetlands); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [imm.])
Sweden
Greek, marbled
TAMU
Araneus miniatus
Epeira miniata Walckenaer, 1837;
Larinia nigrofoliata Keyserling, 1884;
North-central Texas; Brazos, Cameron, Denton, Fannin, Houston, Hunt, Morris, Polk, Sabine, San Patricio, Travis, Walker
Lick Creek Park, Resaca de la Palma State Park, Welder Wildlife Refuge
Male (February – April, June – July); female (March – May, July – August, November)
(grass: pasture); (plants: vegetation); (soil/woodland: trees, Juniperus ashei, Quercus buckleyi, Quercus virginiana, Ulmus crassifolia)
Beating [mf]; beating/sweeping [m]; sweeping [mf]
Georgia
Latin, colored with vermillion
MCZ, MSU, TAMU
Araneus nashoba
Erath, Fayette, Kimble, Travis
Male (April – June); female (April – July)
(soil/woodland: Quercus buckleyi, Quercus virginiana)
Beating [mf]; sweeping [mf]
Massachusetts, Pepperell
locality (The specific name is a noun in apposition, after the Nashoba region of Massachusetts,
TAMU
Araneus nordmanni
Epeira angulata (Clerck, 1757);
South Texas; Bastrop
Female (June)
Sweden, Uppland
Person (arachnologist)
MSU
Araneus pegnia
Neosconella pegnia (Walckenaer, 1841);
Araneus globosus (Keyserling, 1865);
Eastern ½ Texas; Brazos, Cameron, Comanche, Dallas, Erath, Hidalgo, Howard, Menard, Nacogdoches, Sutton, Travis, Wichita, Williamson
Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Resaca de la Palma State Park, Riley Estate, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary, Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge
Male (April – June, August – November); female (May – November)
(nest/prey: mud dauber nest [mf]); (orchard: grapefruit, orange, tangerine); (plants: goldenrod); (soil/woodland: saltcedar, trees, trees/shrubs, Juniperus ashei, Quercus buckleyi); (web: orbweb)
Beating [mf]; suction trap [m]; sweeping [m]
Georgia
undetermined
DMNS, MSU, TAMU
Araneus pratensis
Neoscona pratensis Emerton, 1884;
Southeast, central and east Texas; Bexar, Brazos, Fayette, Galveston, Jefferson, Kerr, Lavaca, Leon, Refugio, San Patricio, Victoria
Male (April – May, August, October); female (April – May, August, November)
(crops: rice); (plants: bluebonnets, Indian paintbrush, miscellaneous vegetation)
sweeping [mf]
Connecticut, New Haven
Latin, pertaining to a meadow
MCZ, TAMU
Araneus texanus
Conepeira texana Archer, 1951;
Brazos, Edwards, Freestone, Gillespie, Limestone
Riley Estate
Male (April); female (May – June)
(nest/prey: mud dauber nest [f]); (plants: bluebonnets, Indian paintbrush); (soil/woodland: trees)
Beating [f]; sweeping [m]
Texas (male, Limestone Co., Mexia, M. Kagan, holotype, AMNH)
locality (state)
TAMU
close to Rio Grande Valley, South Texas
Alabama
one of twelve apostles
Araniella displicata
Epeira cucurbitina (Clerck, 1757);
Epeira displicata Hentz, 1847;
Burleson, Cameron, Erath, Galveston, Hidalgo, Jefferson, Travis
Galveston Island State Park
Male (March – April); female (February – May)
(crops: cotton, rice, sugarcane); (grass: grassy and shrub area); (orchard: citrus); (soil/woodland: Quercus buckleyi, Quercus virginiana, Ulmus crassifolia)
Beating [f]; suction trap [imm.]; sweeping [mf]
Alabama
Latin, scattered
TAMU
Argiope argentata
Southern 1/4 Texas; Cameron, Nueces, Zapata
Corpus Christi Botanical Gardens
Male (May); female (May, October)
(web: in web)
unknown
Latin, silver
TAMU
Argiope aurantia
Argiope cophinaria (Walckenaer, 1841);
Epeira riparia Hentz, 1847;
Eastern 2/3 Texas; Archer, Atascosa, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Brazos, Burleson, Clay, Collin, Colorado, Comal, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell, Dallas, DeWitt, Denton, Erath, Fannin, Galveston, Gonzales, Grimes, Harris, Hays, Houston, Hunt, Johnson, Kendall, Kerr, Leon, Liberty, Matagorda, McLennan, Nacogdoches, Navarro, Potter, Robertson, Sabine, San Patricio, Travis, Victoria, Walker, Washington, Wichita, Williamson, Wilson
Adriance Pecan Orchard, Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Bill Haney Pecan Orchard, Brison Pecan Orchard, Ellis Prison Unit, Fort Hood, Fort Sam Houston, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Lackland Air Force Base, Lake Grapevine, Lake Tawakoni State Park, Lick Creek Park, Palmetto State Park, Stubblefield Lake, Texas A&M University Rangeland Area, Welder Wildlife Refuge, Wildcat Bluff Nature Center, Williams Lake
Bell (Medusa Cave [Fort Hood], Road Side Sink [Fort Hood], Seven Cave [Fort Hood]); Coryell (Brokeback Cave [Fort Hood], Mixmaster Cave [Fort Hood]); Hays (Ezell’s Cave, Fern Cave); Kendall (Cueva de los Tres Bobos); Williamson (Steam Cave)
Male (June – September); female (June – November)
(crops: cotton, peanuts); (grass: grass, grassland); (landscape features: barns, cave); (littoral: wetlands); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest); (orchard: pecan); (plants: miscellaneous vegetation, vegetation); (soil/woodland: hackberry woodland, trees); (structures: under picnic table); (web: large spider web)
Beating [mf]; cardboard band [imm.]; fogging [m]; pitfall trap [imm.]; suction trap [mf]; sweeping [mf]
North America
New Latin, orange
DMNS, MCZ, MSU, TAMU, TMM
Argiope blanda
South Texas; Cameron
Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary
Male (May)
Guatemala, Santa Ana
Latin, smooth
MCZ
Argiope trifasciata
Argiope avara Thorell, 1859;
Widespread; Archer, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Borden, Brazos, Brown, Burleson, Burleson/Lee, Burnet, Caldwell, Carson, Clay, Collin, Concho, Coryell, Dallas, Denton, Ector, Erath, Fannin, Fayette, Galveston, Garza, Houston, Howard, Lubbock, Martin, Nueces, Oldham, Pecos, Potter, Presidio, Rains, Reagan, Runnels, Travis, Upton, Walker, Ward, Wichita, Young
Ellis Prison Unit, Lake Dallas, Lick Creek Park, Pantex Lake (edge), Texas A&M University Rangeland Area, Wildcat Bluff Nature Center
Male (June – October); female (January, July, September – November)
(crops: cotton, guar, peanuts); (grass: broom weed, grassland, pasture); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [imm.]); (plants: bush, miscellaneous vegetation, roadside vegetation, vegetation, Baccharis); (soil/woodland: oak, post oak savanna, post oak savanna with pasture, saltcedar, trees/shrubs); (web: in web)
Beating [m]; suction trap [m]; sweeping [mf]
Egypt
Latin, three stripes on abdomen of immature
DMNS, JCC, MSU, TAMU, TTU
Colphepeira catawba
Brazos, Val Verde, Wilbarger
Seminole Canyon State Park
Male (May, October)
North Carolina, Asheville
Indian tribe
TAMU
Cyclosa berlandi
Cyclosa walckenaeri (O. P.-Cambridge, 1889);
Brewster
Big Bend National Park, Chisos Mountains
Female (September)
Ecuador, 20 km N Cuenca
Person (Berland described spiders from the mountains of Ecuador, illustrated the abdomen of the male, with three posterior tubercles and a nondiagnostic view of the male palpus. As there is only one common species in the area with triforked abdomen in males; the identification is easy,
Cyclosa caroli
East and south Texas; McLennan
Alabama
undetermined
MSU
Cyclosa conica
Galveston, Jefferson
(crops: rice)
Germany
Greek, conical
Cyclosa turbinata
Widespread; Bandera, Brazos, Burleson, Cameron, Collin, Comanche, Delta, Erath, Fannin, Goliad, Houston, Hunt, Kaufman, McLennan, Nacogdoches, Presidio, Robertson, Travis, Val Verde, Walker, Wharton, Wichita, Williamson
Adriance Pecan Orchard, Bill Haney Pecan Orchard, Ellis Prison Unit, Goliad State Park, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Lost Maples State Park, South Padre Island, Texas A&M University Rangeland Area
Male (March – September); female (March – October)
(crops: cotton, peanuts); (grass: grassland, pasture); (littoral: behind sand dune, past dunes, shrub); (orchard: pecan); (plants: bluebonnets, croton, miscellaneous vegetation, prickly pear, Baccharis, Monarda citriodora); (soil/woodland: live oak, Quercus buckleyi, Quercus virginiana, Ulmus crassifolia); (web: web in hollow sycamore tree, web in shrub)
Beating [m]; cardboard band [m]; D-Vac suction [m]; fogging [mf]; suction trap [m]; sweeping [mf]
Georgia
Latin, top-shaped
DMNS, MSU, TAMU
Cyclosa walckenaeri
Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr
Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge
Female (April, June, September)
(grass: grasses); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [f] from Chalybion californicum); (soil/woodland: savanna with native grasses)
Lindgren flight trap [f]; sweeping [f]
Guatemala, Volcan de Fuego
Person (arachnologist)
TAMU
West Texas record is Cyclosa berlandi.
Eriophora edax
South Texas; Cameron, Hidalgo
Anzalduas County Park, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Frontera Audubon, Russell Farm, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary
Male (March – April, August, October); female (February, May – June, August, December)
(orchard: grapefruit, orange); (structures: on pavement)
Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
Latin, greedy or devouring
MSU, NMSU, TAMU
Eriophora ravilla
Epeira ravilla C. L. Koch, 1844;
Araneus ravillus (C. L. Koch, 1844);
Epeira balaustina McCook, 1888;
Epeira bivariolata O. P.-Cambridge, 1889;
Araneus balaustinus (McCook, 1888);
Eriophora variolata O. P.-Cambridge, 1889; F. O. P.-
Araneus variolatus (O. P.-Cambridge, 1889);
Southeast and south Texas; Aransas, Brazoria, Brazos, Cameron, Harris, Hidalgo, Nacogdoches, Nueces, Walker
Ellis Prison Unit, Frontera Audubon, Lick Creek Park, Resaca de la Palma State Park, Russell Farm, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary, Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge
Male (March – April, November); female (March – June, August, October – November)
(crops: cotton); (grass: grasses); (orchard: orange, grapefruit); (soil/woodland: forest, palm forest); (structures: around house)
Beating [mf]; sweeping [m]
Mexico
Latin, gray-yellow
NMSU, TAMU
Eustala anastera
Epeira anastera Walckenaer, 1841;
Eustala anestera (Walckenaer, 1841);
Eustala prompta (Hentz, 1847);
Widespread; Archer, Atascosa, Bastrop, Baylor, Bee, Blanco, Brazos, Brown, Burleson, Cameron, Clay, Collin, Colorado, Comanche, Dallas, Erath, Galveston, Gillespie, Hidalgo, Houston, Howard, Hunt, McLennan, Montague, Nacogdoches, Nueces, Orange, Presidio, Robertson, Scurry, Travis, Walker, Wichita
Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Bill Haney Pecan Orchard, Ellis Prison Unit, Frontera Audubon, Galveston Island State Park, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Lick Creek Park, Proctor Lake, Russell Farm, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary
Male (March – October); female (April – December)
(crops: cotton, guar, peanuts); (grass: grass, grassland, grassy and shrub area, pasture); (littoral: salt marsh area, sandy area); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [f]); (objects: croton cage); (orchard: grapefruit, orange, pecan, sour orange, tangerine); (plants: bluebonnets, Indian paintbrush, vegetation); (soil/woodland: brush, mesquite, saltcedar, trees/shrubs, Juniperus ashei, Quercus virginiana, Ulmus crassifolia)
Beating [m]; beating/sweeping [f]; black light trap [m]; boll weevil pheromone trap [mf]; cardboard band [mf]; D-Vac suction [f]; fogging [mf]; pitfall trap [mf]; suction trap [mf]; sweeping [mf]
Georgia
Greek, solid throughout
DMNS, MSU, NMSU, TAMU
Eustala bifida
Cameron, Wichita
Russell Farm, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary
Male (March); female (February)
(soil/woodland: palm grove)
Boll weevil pheromone trap [m]
Costa Rica, San Jose
Latin, female abdomen with two conical tubercles at end
MSU, NMSU
Eustala brevispina
Cameron
Russell Farm
Male (December); female (March, May – June)
Boll weevil pheromone trap [f]
Texas (male, Cameron Co., December 1934, L. I. Davis, holotype, AMNH)
Latin, short spines
NMSU
Eustala cameronensis
Eustala cameronsis Gertsch & Davis, 1936;
Cameron, Hidalgo
Male (“January-March”, September)
Texas (male, Cameron Co., January-March 1936, L. I. Davis, holotype, AMNH)
[female unknown]
locality (county)
Eustala cepina
Eastern ½ Texas; Archer, Brazos, Cameron, Clay, Colorado, Comanche, Dickens, Fayette (imm.), Hunt, Montague, Robertson, Throckmorton, Travis, Walker, Wichita, Willacy, Williamson
Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Bill Haney Pecan Orchard, Ellis Prison Unit, Holmes Pecan Orchard
Male (March – July); female (March – August)
(crops: cotton); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest); (orchard: pecan); (plants: bluebonnets, Indian paintbrush, vegetation); (soil/woodland: tree, trees/shrubs, Quercus buckleyi)
Beating [f]; cardboard band [f]; fogging [mf]; suction trap [m]; sweeping [mf]
Georgia
Latin, field
MSU, TAMU
Eustala clavispina
Eustala rosae Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935;
Cameron, Hidalgo
Hoblitzelle Farms
Male (February)
Guatemala, Vera Paz, Cubilguitz
Latin, upper side of abdomen with claviform spines
TAMU
Eustala conchlea [
Clay
California
Greek, shell-like
MSU
Eustala devia
Neosconella devia Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936;
Aranea devia (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936);
Hidalgo
Female (August)
Texas (female, Hidalgo Co., Edinburg, August 25, 1935, S. Mulaik, holotype, AMNH)
Latin, out of the way
Eustala emertoni
Eastern 2/3 Texas; Archer, Bastrop, Bell, Bosque, Brazoria, Brazos, Brown, Cameron, Colorado, Denton, Hunt, Kaufman, Robertson, Travis, Walker, Wichita
Ellis Prison Unit, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Lacuna Park, Lake Tawakoni State Park, Lick Creek Park, Nash Prairie, South Padre Island
Male (April – July, September – November); female (March – October)
(crops: cotton); (grass: grass, grass marsh, grassland); (littoral: behind dune, dune vegetation, low dune grass); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest); (orchard: pecan); (plants: croton, miscellaneous vegetation, vegetation); (soil/woodland: woods, Quercus buckleyi, Quercus virginiana, Ulmus crassifolia); (web: large spider web)
Beating [f]; beating/sweeping [f]; D-Vac suction [f]; sweeping [mf]
Georgia
Person (arachnologist)
DMNS, MSU, TAMU
Gasteracantha cancriformis
Eastern 2/3 Texas; Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Cameron, Denton, Galveston, Gonzalez, Grimes, Harris, Hidalgo, Leon, McLennan, Nacogdoches, Sabine, San Patricio, Shelby, Travis, Van Zandt, Walker, Wharton, Wichita, Zapata
5-Eagle Ranch, Adriance Pecan Orchard, Lick Creek Park, Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge, Nash Prairie, Palmetto State Park, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary, Texas A&M University Rangeland Area
Male (April, June – July, September – October); female (January – December)
(grass: grassland); (littoral: sedge meadow); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [imm.] from Chalybion californicum); (orchard: pecan); (plants: bush, miscellaneous vegetation, vegetation); (soil/woodland: beech-magnolia forest, oak pine forest, post oak savanna, post oak woods [%: 85], re-vegetated site, trees, woods); (web: web near creek)
5 gallon bucket trap [f]; beating [mf]; beating/sweeping [f]; malaise trap [f]; sweeping [f]; uv light [m]
Jamaica
Latin, crab-like
DMNS, MSU, TAMU
Color variation of abdomen of female includes white, yellow, orange and red.
Gea heptagon
East and south Texas; Brazos, Burleson, Caldwell, Colorado, Comal, Erath, Fayette, Fort Bend, Galveston, Houston, Howard, Jefferson, Kerr, Madison, Matagorda, McLennan, Nacogdoches, Nueces, Polk, San Patricio, Travis, Van Zandt, Walker, Wichita
Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Ellis Prison Unit, Lick Creek Park, Texas A&M University Rangeland Area
Male (March – November); female (March, May – September)
(crops: cotton, rice); (grass: grassland, grassy and shrub area, pasture); (littoral: salt marsh area); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [mf]); (plants: Indian paintbrush, miscellaneous vegetation, vegetation, yarrow, Monarda citriodora); (soil/woodland: forest, saltcedar, Quercus virginiana); (structures: indoors)
Beating/sweeping [f]; D-Vac suction [f]; pitfall trap [mf]; suction trap [imm.]; sweeping [mf]
North Carolina and Alabama
Greek, seven-sided
DMNS, MSU, NMSU, TAMU
Hypsosinga funebris
Hypsosinga singaeformis (Scheffer, 1904);
Andrews, Atascosa, Bell, Bexar, Brazos, Burleson, Cameron, Carson, Fayette, Glasscock, Hidalgo, Howard, Kerr, Motley, Sterling, Uvalde, Val Verde
5-Eagle Ranch, Fort Hood, Garner State Park, NK Ranch, South Padre Island, Seminole Canyon State Park
Bell (Canyon Side Sink [Fort Hood])
Male (March 30-April 6, April – July, September); female (April – July, September)
(grass: dune, grassland); (landscape features: cave); (littoral: dune, near playa); (plants: Indian paintbrush, miscellaneous vegetation, roadside vegetation); (soil/woodland: post oak savanna with pasture, trees/shrubs)
Beating [mf]; pitfall trap [mf]; sweeping [mf]
Florida, Crescent City
Latin, of a funeral
TAMU
Hypsosinga rubens
Singa nigripes Keyserling, 1884;
Araneus nigripes (Keyserling, 1884);
North-central and central Texas; Aransas, Brazos, Brown, Erath, Fannin, Hunt, Kenedy, Montague, Montgomery, San Saba, Travis, Walker, Young
Ellis Prison Unit, Goose Island State Park, Jones State Forest, Lick Creek Park, NK Ranch
Male (March – May, August), female (March – June, August)
(crops: cotton, peanuts); (plants: miscellaneous vegetation); (soil/woodland: juniper, woods, Juniperus ashei, Ulmus crassifolia)
Beating [f]; hanging carrion trap [f]; pitfall trap [f]; sweeping [f]
Alabama
Latin, red
MSU, TAMU
Kaira alba
North-central and south Texas; Brazos, Denton, Hidalgo, Travis, Uvalde
Garner State Park, Lick Creek Park
Male (May, July)
(soil/woodland: Quercus virginiana)
Beating [m]; beating/sweeping [m]
North Carolina
Latin, white
TAMU
Kaira altiventer
Cameron, Hidalgo
Frontera Audubon
Male (March, August); female (December)
(orchard: grapefruit, sour orange); (soil/woodland: low shrubs)
Panama, Veragux
Latin, high belly
TAMU
Kaira hiteae
Brazos, Cameron, Colorado, Dallas, Grayson, Travis
Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, South Padre Island, Texas A&M University Rangeland Area
Male (July – August); female (September – November)
(plants: vegetation)
sweeping [f]
Arkansas, Boston Mountains, Cove Creek Valley
Person (The species is named after M. Hite, the collector of several specimens of this rare species,
MCZ, TAMU
Larinia directa
Drexelia directa (Hentz, 1847);
Southern ½ Texas, west Texas; Archer, Bosque, Brazos, Brewster, Burleson, Cameron, Colorado, Erath, Fayette, Freestone, Goliad, Hidalgo, Hopkins, Howard, Hunt, Jefferson, Kenedy, Nacogdoches, Presidio, San Patricio, Victoria, Walker, Wichita, Willacy
Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Ellis Prison Unit, Lacuna Park, Lick Creek Park, Russell Farm, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary, Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Somerville Lake, South Padre Island, Welder Wildlife Refuge
Male (February – August, October, December); female (February – September)
(crops: peanuts, rice, sugarcane); (littoral: dune); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [f]); (orchard: grapefruit, orange); (plants: bluebonnets, Indian paintbrush, miscellaneous vegetation, vegetation, next to cotton field); (soil/woodland: saltcedar)
Boll weevil pheromone trap [mf]; moth pheromone trap [f]; suction trap [m]; sweeping [mf]
South Carolina and Alabama
Latin, straight
DMNS, MSU, NMSU, TAMU
Larinioides cornutus
Nuctenea cornuta (Clerck, 1757);
Araneus cornutus Clerck, 1757;
Epeira strix Hentz, 1847;
Eastern 2/3 Texas; Archer, Baylor, Brown, Burnet, Clay, Comanche, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Galveston, Grayson, Hood, Hunt, Lee, Palo Pinto, Potter, Travis, Wichita
Galveston Island State Park, Inks Lake State Park, Lake Somerville State Park [Nails Creek Unit], Lake Tawakoni State Park, Lakeside Park South, Proctor Lake, Wildcat Bluff Nature Center
Male (March – April, June, August – September, November); female (January – May, July – December)
(grass: grassy and shrub area, pasture); (littoral: salt marsh area); (soil/woodland: sandy area, tree, under bark); (structures: house); (web: communal web, dead in web, large spider web)
Beating [mf]; pitfall trap; sweeping
Sweden
Latin, referring to horn or projection
DMNS, MSU, TAMU
Larinioides patagiatus
Nuctenea patagiata (Clerck, 1757);
South Texas
Sweden
Latin, gold-bordered
Larinioides sclopetarius
Nuctenea sclopetaria (Clerck, 1757) [
Araneus sericatus Clerck, 1757;
Nacogdoches
Lake Rayburn
Male (August); female (August)
Sweden
Greek, pointed
Mangora calcarifera
South Texas; Cameron
Male (March, September); female (October)
(soil/woodland: palm grove)
Guatemala, Petexbatún
Latin, spur on palp
Mangora fascialata
South Texas; Brazos, Brewster, Comal, Coryell, Erath, Frio, Hidalgo, Uvalde
Big Bend National Park, Garner State Park, Texas A&M University Rangeland Area
Male (June – July); female (May – July)
(crops: cotton); (littoral: cane and mesquite along river); (soil/woodland: post oak savanna with pasture)
sweeping
Cuba
Latin, a band
TAMU
Mangora gibberosa
Eastern ½ Texas; Anderson, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Cherokee, DeWitt, Erath, Fannin, Goliad, Gonzales, Henderson, Houston, Howard, Hunt, Kerr, Lavaca, Limestone, McLennan, Nacogdoches, Polk, Presidio, Rains, San Patricio, Travis, Uvalde, Van Zandt, Walker, Wichita, Williamson
Bastrop State Park, Ellis Prison Unit, Garner State Park, Lick Creek Park, Palmetto State Park, Riley Estate, Texas A&M University Rangeland Area, Welder Wildlife Refuge
Male (May – November); female (April – November)
(crops: cotton); (grass: grass, grassland, meadow, pasture); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest in garage [f]); (plants: miscellaneous vegetation, roadside vegetation, vegetation, Baccharis); (soil/woodland: post oak savanna, saltcedar, willow)
sweeping [mf]
Alabama
Latin, humped
DMNS, MSU, TAMU
Mangora maculata
Southeast Texas; Brazos, Comanche, Erath, Gonzales, Travis, Walker
Lick Creek Park, Nabor’s Lake, Palmetto State Park
Male (May – August); female (June – July, July 15-August 15)
(nest/prey: mud dauber nest [f]); (plants: vegetation); (soil/woodland: upland woods, woods, Quercus buckleyi)
Beating [m]; pitfall trap [f]; sweeping [m]
Maryland, Baltimore
Latin, markings
TAMU
Mangora placida
Eastern 2/3 Texas; Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Comal, Erath, Fannin, Gonzales, Kerr, Montague, Montgomery, Nacogdoches, Polk, Travis, Walker, Wichita
5-Eagle Ranch, Bastrop State Park, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Jones State Forest, Lick Creek Park, Palmetto State Park, Sam Houston National Forest, Stubblefield Lake
Male (February – July), female (March – October)
(littoral: creek bank, near creek, sedge meadow); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [imm.]); (orchard: pecan); (plants: miscellaneous vegetation, vegetation); (soil/woodland: brush, old field, trees, woods, Juniperus ashei, Quercus buckleyi, Quercus virginiana, Ulmus crassifolia)
Beating [mf]; beating/sweeping [f]; cardboard band [mf]; fogging [mf]; sweeping [mf]
Alabama
Latin, mild or gentle, placid
DMNS, MSU, TAMU
Mangora spiculata
East and south Texas; Hunt, Montgomery, Orange, Walker
Jones State Forest
Male (June, August); female (April, August)
(plants: vegetation)
sweeping [mf]
Alabama
Latin, a point
MSU, TAMU
Mastophora alvareztoroi
Hidalgo
Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge
Female (December)
Mexico, Chiapas, Rancho Alejandria, Municipio Estacion Juarez
Person (The species was named after the collector, the late Miguel Alvarez del Toro, who dedicated his life to the study and protection of the Chiapas fauna and is the author of a book on Chiapas spiders,
Mastophora cornigera
Brazos, Cameron, Duval, Galveston, Hidalgo, Robertson, San Patricio, Travis, Wilson
Frontera Audubon, Lick Creek Park, Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Welder Wildlife Refuge
Male (March – April, June – July, October – December); female (January – February, June – July, October, December)
(orchard: grapefruit); (soil/woodland: scrub live oak, Quercus buckleyi, Quercus virginiana, Ulmus crassifolia)
Beating [m]; beating/sweeping [m]; fogging [m]; sweeping [m]
Brazos [eggsac collected July 24, 2002, hatched week of August 26, 34 males, 65 immatures]; Cameron [62 males, 64 immatures, emerged June; 63 males, 64 immatures, emerged February; eggsac collected February 10, 1980, hatch March 15, 18 males, 25 immatures]; Hidalgo [59 males, 70 immatures, emerged April] [TAMU]
Alabama
Latin, horned
TAMU
Mastophora leucabulba
Agathostichus leucabulba Gertsch, 1955;
Agatostichus leucabulba Gertsch, 1955;
Cameron, Duval, Hidalgo, Wilson
Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge
Male (April)
Texas (female, Cameron Co., E of Harlingen, January-March, 1936, L. I. Davis, holotype, AMNH)
Latin, white bulbous processes on carapace
TAMU
Mastophora phrynosoma
Walker
Huntsville State Park
Female (September)
(soil/woodland: bush, elm)
North Carolina, Burlington
Greek, toad-like
TAMU
Mastophora stowei
Harrison
Female (July)
Florida, Gainesville
Person (The species is named after the collector, Mark Stowe, who has contributed much to our knowledge of Mastophora,
Mecynogea lemniscata
Allepeira lemniscata (Walckenaer, 1841);
Epeira basilica McCook, 1878;
Hentzia basilica (McCook, 1878);
Argiope basilica McCook, 1878;
Allepeira basilica (McCook, 1878);
Mecynogea basilica (McCook, 1878);
Eastern 2/3 Texas; Archer, Bexar, Brazos, Burleson, Cameron, Comanche, Erath, Garza, Gonzales, Hidalgo, Houston, Howard, Hunt, Hutchinson, Nacogdoches, Sabine, Travis, Walker, Wichita
5-Eagle Ranch, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Ellis Prison Unit, Johnson Ranch, Lake Tawakoni State Park, Lick Creek Park, Palmetto State Park, Proctor Lake, Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge
Male (May – July); female (May – August)
(crops: cotton, peanuts); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [mf in Chalybion californicum, f in Sceliphron caementarium]); (soil/woodland: beech-magnolia forest, pine woods [%: 99], saltcedar, willow, woods); (web: in web, web in oak tree)
5 gallon bucket trap [m]; beating [m]; malaise trap [m]; suction trap [m]; sweeping [mf]
Georgia
Latin, adorned with ribbons
MCZ, MSU, NMSU, TAMU
Metazygia wittfeldae
Central, southeast and south Texas; Brazos, Burnet, Cameron, Dallas, Fort Bend, Goliad, Hood, Hunt, Lee, Montgomery, San Patricio, Walker, Washington
Ellis Prison Unit, Goliad State Park, Lake Buchanan, Lake Corpus Christi State Park, Lake Somerville State Park [Nails Creek Unit], Lake Tawakoni State Park, Lakeside Park South, Russell Farm
Male (March – April, June – August); female (March – May, July – November)
(crops: cotton); (web: large spider web)
Boll weevil pheromone trap [mf]
Florida
Person (after the late Miss Anna Wittfeld, of Merrit Island, Florida)
MSU, NMSU, TAMU
Metazygia zilloides
Central and south Texas; Bell, Cameron, Hidalgo, Hunt, Lee, Montgomery, San Patricio, Starr, Travis, Willacy
Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Frontera Audubon, Lake Corpus Christi State Park, Lake Somerville State Park [Nails Creek Unit], Russell Farm, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary
Male (March, October, December); female (March – April, July – December)
(crops: sugarcane); (orchard: citrus, grapefruit, orange, sour orange); (web: large spider web)
Boll weevil pheromone trap [mf]
Mexico, Tepic
like Zilla californica Banks, 1896 = Zygiella x-notata (Clerck, 1758)
DMNS, MSU, NMSU, TAMU
Metepeira arizonica
West Texas; Brewster, Presidio
Big Bend National Park
Female (March)
Arizona, Canyon Lake
locality (state)
MSU
Metepeira comanche
Metepeira n. sp.;
Widespread; Andrews, Archer, Bastrop, Baylor, Borden, Brewster, Collin, Crane, Gaines, Garza, Haskell, Howard, Jim Wells, Jones, Kent, Kimble, Kinney, Motley, Nacogdoches, Reagan, Taylor, Upton, Val Verde, Ward, Webb, Wichita
Seminole Canyon State Park
Male (February, April – July); female (February, May – July, September – November)
(crops: guar); (grass: grass); (plants: miscellaneous vegetation); (soil/woodland: juniper, saltcedar, tree, trees/shrubs); (web: in web)
Beating [mf]; sweeping [mf]
Texas (male, Haskell Co., 9.7 km W O’Brien, February 3, 1971, C. E. Rogers, holotype, MCZ)
Indian tribe (The name is a noun in apposition after the Indian tribe of the Texas plains,
DMNS, MCZ, MSU, NMSU, TAMU
Levi 1977 lists Wells Co. but it is Jim Wells Co.
Metepeira foxi
West Texas; Hudspeth
Female (May)
Utah, Richfield
Person
MCZ
Metepeira labyrinthea
Metepeira labyrinthica (Hentz, 1847);
Widespread; Archer, Bosque, Brazos, Brewster, Brown, Comanche, Erath, Maverick, Nacogdoches, Potter, Sutton, Walker, Wichita
Bill Haney Pecan Orchard, Chisos Mountains, Ellis Prison Unit, Lick Creek Park, Nabor’s Lake, Wildcat Bluff Nature Center
Sutton (Felton Cave)
Male (May – August); female (May – August, October)
(crops: peanuts); (landscape features: cave); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [mf]); (orchard: pecan); (soil/woodland: trees, woods); (structures: indoors, porch); (web: in web, web in oak tree)
Beating [m]; fogging [f]; suction trap [m]
North Carolina and Alabama
Greek, type of web
MSU, TAMU, TMM
Metepeira minima
South Texas; Bastrop, Cameron, Hidalgo, Kenedy
Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge
Male (May); female (October – November)
Beating [f]; boll weevil pheromone trap [m]
Texas (male, Hidalgo Co., Edinburg, May 27, 1935, S. Mulaik, holotype, AMNH)
Latin, petite shape, small
DMNS, TAMU
Micrathena gracilis
Eastern ½ Texas; Aransas, Archer, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Cameron, Comanche, Dallas, Erath, Goliad, Gonzalez, Grayson, Hardin, Harris, Houston, Jim Wells, Liberty, Montgomery, Nacogdoches, Red River, San Patricio, Travis, Walker (imm.), Wichita
5-Eagle Ranch, Buescher State Park, Decker’s Prairie, Ellis Prison Unit, Goose Island State Park, Lick Creek Park, Nabor’s Lake, Palmetto State Park
Male (May – July); female (January, May – November)
(crops: cotton); (grass: pasture); (littoral: along creek, creek bank, on tree fungus and marsh edge); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [pen f] Chalybion californicum); (soil/woodland: forest, woods, Quercus buckleyi); (web: web by creek)
Beating/sweeping [mf]; sweeping [m]
Carolina (of 1805)
Latin, slender
DMNS, MCZ, MSU, TAMU
Micrathena mitrata
East Texas; Nacogdoches, Sabine
Female (October)
(soil/woodland: beech-magnolia forest); (web: web near creek)
Malaise trap [f]
North Carolina and Alabama
Latin, abdomen above resembles a bishop’s mitre
TAMU
Micrathena sagittata
Central, east and south Texas; Brazos, Cameron, Gonzales, Hardin, Hidalgo, Nacogdoches, Walker
Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Ellis Prison Unit, Frontera Audubon, Palmetto State Park, Resaca de la Palma State Park, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary
Male (June – August, October – November); female (April – May, August, October)
(crops: cotton); (littoral: near creek, wetlands); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [imm.]); (orchard: grapefruit); (soil/woodland: palm forest, woods)
Beating [f]
Georgia
Latin, arrow- (head) like
MSU, TAMU
Neoscona arabesca
Epeira arabesca Walckenaer, 1841;
Epeira trivittata Keyserling, 1864;
Araneus trivittatus (Keyserling, 1864);
Neoscona minima F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1904;
Aranea minima (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1904);
Widespread; Atascosa, Bee, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Cameron, Collin, Colorado, Comanche, Dallas, Erath, Falls, Fannin, Fayette, Galveston, Gillespie, Hays, Henderson, Hidalgo, Houston, Hunt, Jefferson, Jim Wells, Matagorda, McLennan, Montague, Nacogdoches, Polk, Rains, Robertson, San Patricio, Travis, Victoria, Walker, Webb, Wichita, Willacy, Williamson
Adriance Pecan Orchard, Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Ellis Prison Unit, Galveston Island State Park, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Lake Corpus Christi State Park, Lake Tawakoni State Park, Lick Creek Park, Proctor Lake, Ramsey Prison Farm, Resaca de la Palma State Park, Russell Farm, Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Texas A&M University Rangeland Area, Welder Wildlife Refuge
Male (January – December); female (January – December)
(crops: corn, cotton, peanuts, rice, sugarcane, watermelon); (grass: grass, grassland, grassy and shrub area, pasture); (littoral: salt marsh area); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [mf], nest of Chalybion californicum); (orchard: citrus, orange, pecan, tangerine, Valley lemon); (plants: bluebonnets, croton, garden, Indian paintbrush, miscellaneous vegetation, pepper, roadside vegetation, Hibiscus sp., Monarda citriodora); (soil/woodland: brushy area, hibiscus, mesquite, oak, post oak savanna); (structures: fence next to cotton field)
Beating [mf]; boll weevil pheromone trap [mf]; cardboard band [mf]; D-Vac suction [mf]; fogging [mf]; pitfall trap [f]; suction trap [mf]; sweeping [mf]
Georgia
Spanish, Arabic-like pattern
DMNS, MSU, NMSU, TAMU
Neoscona crucifera
Neoscona hentzii (Keyserling, 1864);
Widespread; Archer, Bastrop, Bell, Brazos, Brown, Clay, Comanche, Erath, Gillespie, Howard, Hunt, Leon, Nacogdoches, Potter, Presidio, Robertson, Runnels, San Patricio, Tarrant, Tom Green, Travis, Walker, Washington, Wheeler, Wichita
Big Bend Ranch State Park, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Lake Tawakoni State Park, Riley Estate, Stubblefield Lake Recreation Area, Texas A&M University Rangeland Area, Welder Wildlife Refuge, Wildcat Bluff Nature Center
Male (April, July – October); female (June – November)
(littoral: palmetto-cypress swamp); (orchard: pecan, pecan orchard); (soil/woodland: juniper, post oak woods [%: 90], saltcedar, wetland/woodland park); (structures: bedroom, outside house, under house eave); (web: in web, in web in woods, large spider web, on web in bosque, web under eave of house)
5 gallon bucket trap [f]; beating [mf]; black light trap [m]; cardboard band [f]; fogging [mf]; suction trap [f]; tile trap [m]
Comanche [eggsac laid June 1, 2001, hatched July 12; 533 spiderlings] [TAMU]
Canary Islands
Latin, cross-bearing
DMNS, MSU, NMSU, TAMU
Neoscona domiciliorum
Central and east Texas; Cameron, Hidalgo, Jefferson, Montgomery, Runnels, Travis, Wichita, Williamson
Frontera Audubon
Williamson (Williams Cave)
Male (November); female (June, October – November)
(crops: rice); (grass: grass); (landscape features: cave); (littoral: flood plain); (orchard: grapefruit, Valley lemon); (soil/woodland: trees/shrubs)
Beating [f]
Alabama
Latin, refers to a house
DMNS, MSU, TAMU
Neoscona nautica
Epeira volucripes Keyserling, 1885;
Central Texas; Galveston, Travis
Male (September); female (August – September)
(structures: warehouse)
Sudan
Greek, for sailor
MCZ, TAMU
Neoscona oaxacensis
Neoscona vertebrata (McCook, 1888);
Western 2/3 Texas; Archer, Bastrop, Bell, Borden, Brazos, Brewster, Burleson, Carson, Clay, Coleman, Ector, Fisher, Guadalupe, Hidalgo, Howard, Hunt, Kendall, Lubbock, Martin, McLennan, Montague, Potter, Presidio, Randall, Reagan, Scurry, Upton, Ward, Wichita, Wilbarger
Lake Thomas, Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Pantex Lake (edge), Wildcat Bluff Nature Center
Male (June – October); female (February, June – December)
(crops: cotton, guar); (grass: grass, shrubs and tall grass); (orchard: pecan, pecan orchard); (littoral: near playa); (plants: roadside vegetation, vegetation, Baccharis); (soil/woodland: juniper, saltcedar, trees/shrubs)
Beating [m]; D-Vac suction [m]; sweeping [mf]
Mexico, Oaxaca
locality (Mexican state)
DMNS, MSU, TAMU, TTU
Neoscona utahana
Neoscona eximia Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936;
Aranea eximia (Gertsch and Mulaik, 1936);
Widespread; Brazos, Cameron, Erath, Hidalgo, McLennan, Nueces, San Patricio, Travis, Walker, Winkler
Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Ellis Prison Unit, Welder Wildlife Refuge
Male (July – August); female (June, August – December)
(crops: cotton, sugarcane); (orchard: citrus); (structures: under house eave)
suction trap [m]
Utah, Fillmore
locality (state)
DMNS, TAMU
Ocrepeira ectypa
Wixia ectypa (Walckenaer, 1841);
Wixia infumata (Hentz, 1850);
Cameron, Dallas
Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary
Female (October)
Georgia
Greek, carved
TAMU
Ocrepeira georgia
Wixia georgia Levi, 1976;
Bandera, Brazos, Cameron, Hidalgo, Travis
Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, Lost Maples State Park
Male (April, May, October); female (April – May, October)
(plants: bluebonnets, Indian paintbrush); (soil/woodland: brushy area, savanna with native grasses, Quercus buckleyi, Ulmus crassifolia)
Beating [f]; sweeping [mf]
Georgia, Athens
locality (The specific name is a noun in apposition after the state of the type locality, Levi, 1976).
TAMU
Ocrepeira globosa
Wixia globosa F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1904;
Brown, Dallas, Erath
Female (October – November)
(plants: vegetation)
suction trap [f]
Mexico, Guerrero, Tepetlapa
[male unknown]
Latin, globe or ball-like
MCZ, MSU, TAMU
Ocrepeira redempta
Aranea redempta Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936;
Araneus redemptus Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936;
Neoscona redempta (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936);
Hidalgo
Female (October)
Texas (female, Hidalgo Co., Edinburg, October 10, 1935, C. Rutherford, holotype, AMNH)
Latin, redeemed
Scoloderus nigriceps
Scoloderus cordatus (Taczanowski, 1879);
Cameron, Hidalgo
Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge
Female (February, April)
Mexico, Teapa
Latin, markings on abdomen
TAMU
Singa eugeni [
Jim Wells
Wisconsin, Iowa Co.
Person (The species is named after arachnologist Count Eugen Keyserling,
MSU
Singa keyserlingi [
Bee
Missouri, St. Louis
Person (The species is named after arachnologist Count Eugen Keyserling)
MSU
Singa
Nacogdoches, Rolling Plains
(crops: guar); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [f])
Verrucosa arenata
Eastern ½ Texas; Bastrop, Brazos, Galveston, Gonzalez, Grayson, Nacogdoches, Sabine, San Jacinto, Tyler, Walker
Buescher State Park, Galveston Island State Park, Kirby State Forest, Lick Creek Park, Palmetto State Park, Stubblefield Lake Recreation Area
Male (May – August); female (May – July, September – November)
(littoral: near creek, salt marsh, sedge meadow); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [mf]); (soil/woodland: beech-magnolia forest, tree, woods)
Beating [m]; beating/sweeping [f]; Lindgren funnel trap [m]; malaise trap [m]
Georgia
Latin, sandy
DMNS, MSU, TAMU
Wagneriana tauricornis
Southeast and south Texas; Brooks, Cameron, DeWitt, Hidalgo
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary
Male (July); female (September – November)
(plants: miscellaneous vegetation); (soil/woodland: ebony-guayacan association)
pitfall trap [f]; sweeping [m]
Guatemala
Latin, bull-horned
TAMU
Orthonops lapanus
Orthonops gertschi Chamberlin, 1928;
Brewster, Hays, Hidalgo, Kerr, Presidio, Starr, Travis, Webb
Big Bend National Park, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Chihuahuan desert, Chisos Basin, Chisos Mountains, Dalquest Research Site, La Mesa Ranch, Raven Ranch
Travis (Dobie Shelter)
Male (January, June, August – November); female (January – February, May – June, August – December)
(landscape features: under rock); (soil/woodland: Juniperus managed plot, leaf litter, upland deciduous forest)
Flight intercept trap on ground [mf]; pitfall trap [mf]
Texas (male, Starr Co., 3 miles E Rio Grande City, January 21, 1939, S. Mulaik, holotype, AMNH)
Latin, with shorter legs
MSU, NMSU, TAMU, TMM
Tarsonops systematicus
Cameron, Hidalgo, Llano, Starr, Webb
Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge
Male (February – March); female (January – February, July, September – November)
(soil/woodland: dense coastal brush)
pitfall trap [m]
Mexico, Sonora, San Pedro Bay
Greek, systematic
TAMU
Note. Species incorrectly reported from Texas
Clubiona johnsoni Gertsch, 1941;
Clubiona plumbi Gertsch, 1941;
Clubiona riparia L. Koch, 1866;
Clubiona abboti
Clubiona abbotti L. Koch, 1866;
Clubiona abbotii abbotii L. Koch, 1866;
Clubiona abboti abboti L. Koch, 1866;
Brazos, Brewster, Burleson, Carson, Colorado, Comal, Dallas, Delta, Erath, Floyd, Freestone, Galveston, Goliad, Harris, Jefferson, Kerr, Liberty, Nueces, Orange, Robertson, Travis, Walker, Wichita
Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Ellis Prison Unit, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Lick Creek Park, Zilker Park
Male (January, May – December); female (February, April – December)
(crops: cotton, peanuts); (grass: grass, grassland, grassy and shrub area); (littoral: near playa, near water); (orchard: pecan); (plants: Monarda citriodora); (soil/woodland: post oak woodland)
cardboard band [mf]; D-Vac suction [mf]; fogging [f]; pitfall trap [mf]; suction trap [m]; sweeping
Maryland, Baltimore
Person (naturalist)
DMNS, MSU, TAMU
Clubiona adjacens
Cameron
Male (May)
Texas (male, Cameron Co., May 1–2, 1936, L. I. Davis, holotype, AMNH)
[female unknown]
Latin, species closely related to Clubiona abboti L. Koch, 1866
Clubiona catawba
Brazos, Burleson, Cameron, Colorado, Gillespie, Goliad, Houston, Starr, Travis, Victoria, Walker
Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Ellis Prison Unit, Lick Creek Park, South Padre Island
Male (May – October); female (January, April, August)
(grass: dunes, grassland, pasture); (plants: bluebonnets); (soil/woodland: forest, live oak forest, post oak savanna, post oak savanna with pasture)
pitfall trap [m]; suction trap [m]; sweeping [mf]
Tennessee, Kingston
Indian tribe
MSU, TAMU
Clubiona kagani
Harris, Hidalgo, McLennan, Walker
Ellis Prison Unit
Female (March 30-April 5, July)
(crops: cabbage, cotton)
pitfall trap [f]; suction trap [f]
Texas (female, McLennan Co., Riesel, July 26, 1940, M. Kagan, holotype, AMNH)
[male unknown]
Person (collector)
TAMU
Clubiona kiowa
Cameron, Colorado, Dallas, Hidalgo
Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge
Male (April 28-May 5, June – August); female (April 28-May 5, May – June, August – September)
(crops: cotton, soybean); (orchard: grapefruit, sour orange, tangerine)
pitfall trap [mf]; sweeping [m]
Texas (male, Dallas Co., Dallas, 1936, J. H. Robinson, holotype, AMNH)
Indian tribe
TAMU
Clubiona maritima
Clubiona transversa Bryant, 1936;
Archer, Cameron, Dallas, Hidalgo
White Rock Lake
Male (June); female (March, June)
(crops: cotton)
Virgin Islands, St. Thomas
Latin, maritime
MCZ, MSU, TAMU
Clubiona pygmaea
Hidalgo
New York, Ithaca, Fall Creek
Latin, pygmy
Elaver chisosa
Clubionoides chisosa Roddy, 1966;
Brewster
Big Bend National Park, Chisos Basin, Chisos Mountains
Female (September)
Texas (female, Brewster Co., Big Bend National Park, Chisos Mountains, September 28, 1950, W. J. Gertsch, holotype, AMNH)
[male unknown]
locality (Chisos Mountains)
Elaver dorotheae
Clubiona dorothea Gertsch, 1935;
Clubiona dorotheae Gertsch, 1935;
Clubionoides dorothea (Gertsch, 1935);
Hidalgo
Female (“September-December”)
Texas (female, Hidalgo Co., Edinburg, September-December 1933, S. Mulaik, holotype, AMNH)
Person (first name of collector’s wife, Dorothea)
Elaver excepta
Clubionoides excepta (L. Koch, 1866);
Elaver expecta (L. Koch, 1866);
Bell, Brazos, Cameron, Comal, Denton, Erath, Gonzales, Harris, Hidalgo, Hunt, Kaufman, Kerr, Madison, Nacogdoches, Robertson, Sabine, Walker, Webb
Holmes Pecan Orchard, Huntsville State Park, Lake Tawakoni State Park, Lick Creek Park, Parson’s Slough, Riley Estate
Male (March – July, July 24-August 6, September – October); female (January, March – October)
(grass: short grass, sandy-prairie grass, tall grass prairie); (littoral: sedge meadow); (orchard: pecan); (soil/woodland: beech magnolia forest, leaf litter, old field, post oak woods [%: 76], sandy area, sandy by water, tree, upland deciduous forest); (structures: bedroom ceiling, on [wall, wall in house])
5 gallon bucket trap [f]; beating [f]; cardboard band [mf]; flight intercept trap on ground [m]; malaise trap [mf]; pitfall trap [m]
Maryland, Baltimore
Latin, to exclude
DMNS, MCZ, MSU, TAMU
Elaver mulaiki
Clubiona mulaiki Gertsch, 1935;
Clubionoides mulaiki (Gertsch, 1935);
Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr
Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary
Male (September); female (February)
(orchard: grapefruit)
Texas (female, Hidalgo Co., 7 miles E Edinburg, February 8, 1935, S. Mulaik, holotype, AMNH)
Person (collector)
TAMU
Elaver texana
Clubiona texana Gertsch, 1933;
Clubionoides texana (Gertsch, 1933);
Cameron, Galveston, Hidalgo, Nueces, Starr
Frontera Audubon, Laguna Madre
Male (October); female (January)
(orchard: grapefruit, orange)
Texas (female, Cameron Co., Brownsville, January 3–11, 1928, Lutz, holotype, AMNH)
locality (state)
TAMU
Note. Phrurolithus, Phruronellus, Phrurotimpus and Scotinella transferred to Phrurolithidae (
Note. Species incorrectly reported from Texas
Castianeira cingulata (C. K. Koch, 1842) [not in Texas]
Thargalia zonoria Hentz, 1847;
Castianeira alteranda
Brazos, Coryell, Erath, Knox, Williamson
Stiles Farm Foundation, Texas A&M University Rangeland Area
Male (May, July – September); female (May, July – August, September 28-October 5, October)
(crops: cotton, peanuts); (soil/woodland: post oak savanna with pasture); (structures: indoors)
pitfall trap [mf]
Erath [29 eggs in eggsac] [TAMU]
Montana, Hamilton
Latin, similar in coloration and general appearance to Castianeira amoena (C. L. Koch, 1841)
FSCA, MSU, TAMU
Castianeira amoena
Thargalia amoena C. L. Koch, 1847;
Eastern 2/3 Texas; Brazos, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell, Erath, Grimes, Hidalgo, Houston, Leon, Madison, Parker, Presidio, Robertson, Travis, Uvalde
Bill Haney Pecan Orchard, Chihuahuan desert, Dalquest Research Site, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Lick Creek Park, Riley Estate
Male (June – September, December); female (July – November)
(crops: peanuts); (grass: grass); (orchard: pecan); (soil/woodland: leaf litter, pine woods [%: 74], post oak savanna with pasture, post oak woods [%: 60, 76, 80, 100], sandy area, woods, Ulmus crassifolia); (structures: in building, indoors)
5 gallon bucket trap [mf]; pitfall trap [mf] (in sand [m]) sweeping [f]; tile trap [m]
Erath [21 eggs in eggsac] [TAMU]
Carolina (of 1841)
Latin, lovely
MSU, NMSU, TAMU
Castianeira crocata
Southeast and south Texas; Brazos, Burleson, Cameron, Clay, Colorado, Coryell, Kenedy, Lubbock, Montague, Potter, Williamson
Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Kenedy Ranch, Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, Stiles Farm Foundation, Wildcat Bluff Nature Center
Male (July 28-August 8); female (April – August)
(crops: cotton); (soil/woodland: post oak savanna with pasture)
pitfall trap [mf]
Alabama
Latin, saffron-yellow
MSU, TAMU, TTU
Castianeira cubana
Myrmecotypus cubanus Banks, 1926;
Cameron, Kenedy
Kenedy Ranch, Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge
Male (April); female (October)
(littoral: dense coastal brush, sand dune under live oak)
Beating [f]; yellow pan trap [m]
Cuba, Soledad
locality (country)
TAMU
Castianeira descripta
East, central, and south Texas; Archer, Brazos, Brown, Burleson, Cameron, Carson, Comanche, Coryell, Erath, Hays, Hidalgo, Kerr, Knox, Robertson, Tom Green (imm.), Travis, Webb, Wichita
Bill Haney Pecan Orchard, Holmes Pecan Orchard, NK Ranch, Pantex Lake (edge), Texas A&M University Rangeland Area
Male (March – September); female (April – October)
(crops: cotton, peanuts, sugarcane); (landscape features: rocks); (littoral: near playa); (orchard: pecan); (plants: miscellaneous vegetation); (soil/woodland: post oak savanna with pasture, sandy area); (structures: indoors, in lab)
pitfall trap [mf] (in sand [f]); ramp trap [f]; sweeping [f]; tile trap [f]
North Carolina
Latin, descriptive
AMNH, DMNS, MSU, TAMU, TTU
Castianeira gertschi
South Texas; Brazos, Hunt, Walker
Ellis Prison Unit
Male (July); female (February)
(crops: cotton)
pitfall trap [m]
Connecticut, Indian Neck
Person (arachnologist)
TAMU
Castianeira longipalpa
Castianeira longipalpus (Hentz, 1847);
South Texas; Anderson, Archer, Bee, Bexar, Brazos, Burleson, Colorado, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell, Erath, Goliad, Hidalgo, Houston, Jeff Davis, Kenedy, Leon, Lubbock, Robertson, Walker, Webb, Wichita
Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Ellis Prison Unit, Goliad State Park, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Kenedy Ranch, Nabor’s Lake, Somerville Lake, Texas A&M University Rangeland Area
Male (March – August, October); female (May – August, October – November)
(crops: cabbage, cotton, peanuts); (grass: pasture); (littoral: near playa, sand dune area); (orchard: pecan); (plants: Compositae); (soil/woodland: pine woods [%: 60, 69, 74, 84], post oak savanna with pasture, post oak woods [%: 41, 92], sand dune area, sandy area); (structures: in [building, lab])
5 gallon bucket trap [mf]; pitfall trap [mf] (in sand [m]); ramp trap [m]; tile trap [m]
Alabama
Latin, long neck on palp
FSCA, MSU, TAMU
Castianeira nanella
Brewster, Presidio
Chihuahuan desert, Dalquest Research Site
pitfall trap [mf]
Utah, Salt Lake City, City Creek Canyon
Greek, dwarfish
MSU
Castianeira occidens
Brewster, Erath, Presidio, Webb, Wichita
Chihuahuan desert, Dalquest Research Site
Male (September); female (March)
(crops: peanuts); (landscape features: under rock)
pitfall trap [mf]
Arizona, Lakeside
noun, the West (The specific name is a noun in apposition meaning the West,
FSCA, MSU
Castianeira peregrina
Mazax peregrina Gertsch, 1935;
Apochinomma peregrinum (Gertsch, 1935);
Cameron, Hidalgo
Female (February – March, November)
Texas (female, Hidalgo Co., 5 miles S San Juan, February 22, 1935, S. Mulaik, holotype, AMNH)
[male unknown]
Latin, pilgrim
Castianeira trilineata
Central and southeast Texas; Brazos, Coryell, Erath, Hidalgo, Hunt, Montgomery, Robertson
Holmes Pecan Orchard, Lick Creek Park
Male (March – June, October); female (April – July, September)
(grass: grass); (soil/woodland: disturbed habitat, leaf litter, post oak savanna with pasture, sandy area, woods); (structures: on floor in lab, sink in house)
pitfall trap [mf]
Alabama
Latin, three horizontal light bands on abdomen
MSU, TAMU
Falconina gracilis
Corinna sp.;
Bexar, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Colorado, Coryell, Fayette, Fort Bend, Goliad, Grimes, Harris, Hays, Henderson, Hidalgo, Polk, Robertson, San Patricio, Travis, Victoria, Washington, Webb, Williamson
5-Eagle Ranch, Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Brazos Bend State Park, Goliad State Park, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Lick Creek Park, NK Ranch, Somerville Lake, Stiles Farm Foundation, Welder Wildlife Refuge
Bexar (Crownridge Canyon Cave); Travis (Five Pocket Cave)
Male (January, January 26-February 22, March – November); female (January, March – November)
(crops: cabbage, cotton); (grass: grassland); (landscape features: cave); (nest/prey: pocket gopher burrows); (orchard: pecan); (soil/woodland: buckeye-sycamore forest, Juniperus unmanaged plot, open field, post oak savanna with pasture, post oak woodland, post oak woods [%: 60], sandy area, upland woods); (structures: around house, bathroom floor, in house, indoors, on floor in house)
5 gallon bucket trap [imm.]; cardboard band [mf]; flight intercept trap [m]; flight intercept trap on ground [m]; pitfall trap [mf]; tile trap [m]
Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul
Latin, slender
TAMU, TMM
Mazax kaspari
Presidio
Male (March); female (March)
(grass: grass along river)
Texas (male, Presidio Co., 4 km W Lajitas, March 28, 1975, T. C. Kaspar, holotype, AMNH)
Person (The specific name is in honor of the biologist Mr . T. C . Kaspar, who collected the type specimens,
Mazax pax
Mazax spinosa O. P.-Cambridge, 1898;
Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr
Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary
Male (September)
(soil/woodland: palm forest)
Flight intercept trap on ground [m]
Mexico, Tabasco, Teapa
Latin, peace
TAMU
Septentrinna bicalcarata
Brewster, Hudspeth, Webb
Big Bend National Park, Guadalupe Pass, Signal Peak
Male (May); female (April – May)
Arizona
Latin, two-spurred
MSU
Anahita punctulata
Ctenus punctulatus Hentz, 1844;
Harris (Houston), Tyler
Kirby State Forest
Male (April 27-May 8)
Flight intercept trap on ground [m]
Alabama
Latin, minute white dots on abdomen
TAMU
Ctenus valverdiensis
Ctenus sp.;
Val Verde
Val Verde (Cave 8, Diablo Cave, East Gypsum Cave, Ladder Cave, Langtry East Gypsum Cave, Tarantula Cave)
Male (May, September); female (January, September)
(landscape features: cave)
Texas (female, Val Verde Co., East Gypsum Cave, January 25, 1964, J. Reddell, D. McKenzie, J. Porter, holotype, AMNH)
locality (The specific name refers to the type locality,
TMM
Leptoctenus byrrhus
Ctenus byrrhus (Simon, 1888);
Central and south Texas; Bandera, Bexar, Brewster, Cameron, Hidalgo, Kendall, Kerr, Medina, Presidio, Starr, Terrell, Val Verde
Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Big Bend National Park, Chihuahuan desert, Chisos Basin, Chisos Mountains, Dalquest Research Site, Lost Maples State Park, Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary
Bexar (Get A Rope Cave, Up the Creek Cave); Medina (Haby Bat Cave); Terrell (Longley Cave); Val Verde (Diablo Cave, Ladder Cave, Langtry East Gypsum Cave, Unnamed Cave No. 8)
Male (February 28-March 13, March 26-April 1, April – October); female (July – September, November)
(grass: grass); (landscape features: cave, under rock); (soil/woodland: forest litter, palm forest, re-vegetated site, upland deciduous forest)
carrion trap [m]; flight intercept trap on ground [m]; pitfall trap [mf]; yellow pan trap [m]
Mexico
Latin, red
MCZ, MSU, TAMU, TMM
nomen dubium
Cybaeus austinensis (Chamberlin, 1924);
Parauximus austinensis Chamberlin 1924;
Locality. Texas: Austin, R. V. Chamberlin, August, 1909
Note. Described in Dictynidae (
These are federally endangered (
Cicurina baronia Gertsch, 1992 Robber Baron Cave
Cicurina madla Gertsch, 1992 Madla’s Cave
Cicurina venii Gertsch, 1992 Braken Bat Cave
Cicurina vespera Gertsch, 1992 Government Canyon Bat Cave
Note. species incorrectly reported from Texas
Emblyna altamira (Gertsch & Davis, 1942);
Dictyna altamira Gertsch & Davis, 1942;
Dictyna crosbyi Gertsch & Mulaik, 1940;
nomen nudum
Dictyna texana Banks, 1898;
Argennina unica
Hidalgo
Texas (female, Hidalgo Co., Edinburg, spring 1933, S. Mulaik, holotype, AMNH)
[male unknown]
Latin, singular
Brommella lactea
Pagomys lactea Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1958;
Randall
Palo Duro Canyon
Female (December)
Texas (female, Randall Co., Palo Duro Canyon, near Amarillo, December 1934, D. & S. Mulaik, holotype, AMNH)
[male unknown]
Latin, of milk
Note. transferred from Agelenidae to Dictynidae (
Cicurina aenigma
Hays
Female (April)
Texas (female, Hays Co., April 13, 1939, D. & S. Mulaik, holotype, AMNH)
[male unknown]
Latin, enigma, secret
Cicurina arcuata
Dallas, Erath
Female (March)
(soil/woodland: under [log, log in woods], woods)
United States
Latin, an arch
TAMU
Cicurina armadillo
Travis
Female (January)
(nest/prey: armadillo nest)
Texas (female, Travis Co., near Austin, January 8, 1948, Chelden, holotype, AMNH)
[male unknown]
Spanish, animal
Cicurina bandera
Bandera
Bandera (Fossil Cave)
Female (March, July)
(landscape features: cave)
Texas (female, Bandera Co., Fossil Cave, July 23, 1966, J. Reddell, D. McKenzie, holotype, AMNH)
[male unknown]
locality (Named for Bandera County,
TMM
Cicurina bandida
Cicurina cueva Gertsch, 1992;
Cicurina reyesi Gertsch, 1992;
Travis
Travis (Airman’s Cave, Bandit Cave, Blowing Sink, Cave X, Driskill Cave, Flint Ridge Cave, Get Down Cave, Ireland’s Cave, Lost Gold Cave, Lost Oasis Cave, Maple Run Cave)
Female (March – June, September)
(landscape features: cave)
Texas (female, Travis Co., Bandit Cave, May 26, 1966, J. Reddell, J. Fish, holotype, AMNH)
locality (Specific name from Spanish bandido, bandit, named for Bandit Cave,
TMM
Cicurina baronia
Bexar
Bexar (Robber Baron Cave)
Male (June, December); female (April)
(landscape features: cave)
Texas (female, Bexar Co., Robber Barron Cave, April 1969, R. Bartholomew, holotype, AMNH)
locality (Specific name for Robber Baron Cave,
TMM, TTU
Cicurina barri
Sutton
Sutton (Caverns of Sonora [=Mayfield Cave])
Female (August)
(landscape features: cave)
Texas (female, Sutton Co., Caverns of Sonora, August 29, 1959, T. Barr, holotype, AMNH)
[male unknown]
Person (Specific name for Thomas Barr, dean of American speleologists,
TMM
Cicurina blanco
Blanco
Female (February)
Texas (female, Blanco Co., 10 miles E Johnson City, February 23, 1986, S. J. Harden, holotype, AMNH)
[male unknown]
Spanish, white (refers to Blanco Co.)
Cicurina browni
Williamson
Williamson (Brown’s Cave)
Female (April)
(landscape features: cave)
Texas (female, Williamson Co., Brown’s Cave, April 23, 1989, W. Elliott, J. Reddell, M. Reyes, holotype, AMNH)
[male unknown]
locality (Named for Brown’s Cave,
TMM
Cicurina brunsi
Bexar
Camp Bullis
Bexar (Stahl Cave)
Female (November)
(landscape features: cave)
Texas (female, Bexar Co., Stahl Cave, Camp Bullis, November 1, 2001, J. R. Reddell & M. Reyes (molted December 14, 2001, August 2, 2002), holotype, AMNH)
[male unknown]
Person (The specific name is honoring Dusty Bruns for his efforts in promoting cave research and sound cave management at Camp Bullis,
TMM
Cicurina bullis
Bexar
Camp Bullis
Bexar ([all Camp Bullis] Eag