Thymoites expulsus (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936)

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 398

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.570.6095

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CE0DA439-F6F6-4DCF-8225-5700A3C50098

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6229E882-9F16-851F-1BE5-495DB303CB0B

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scientific name

Thymoites expulsus (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936)
status

 

Thymoites expulsus (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936)

Thymoites expulsus Agnew et al. 1985: 3; Breene et al. 1993b: 648; Breene et al. 1993c: 28, 48, 60, mf (figs 29A-B); Dean and Eger 1986: 141; Dean and Sterling 1987: 6; Jackman 1997: 169; Levi 1964a: 469 [T]; Levi and Randolph 1975: 47; Vogel 1970b: 25; Young and Edwards 1990: 24

Theridion expulsum Gertsch and Mulaik, 1936; Gertsch and Mulaik 1936b: 9, mf, desc. (figs 16-17); Roewer 1942: 503

Theridium expulsum Gertsch and Mulaik, 1936; Bonnet 1959: 4471

Paidisca expulsa (Gertsch and Mulaik, 1936); Levi 1957a: 109 [T], 120, mf, desc. (figs 400, 416-417)

Distribution.

Cameron, Colorado, Erath, Hidalgo, Llano, Nueces, Travis, Uvalde, Val Verde, Wharton

Locality.

Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Garner State Park, Piper’s Lake, Seminole Canyon State Park

Time of activity.

Male (March - August); female (March - April, June - August)

Habitat.

(crops: cotton, peanuts, sugarcane); (grass: grass); (orchard: grapefruit); (plants: bluebonnets); (soil/woodland: Juniperus ashei )

Method.

Beating [m]; D-Vac suction [mf]; suction trap [mf]; sweeping [mf]

Type.

Texas (male, Hidalgo Co., Edinburg, March and April, 1934, S. Mulaik, holotype, AMNH)

Etymology.

Latin, driven out

Collection.

TAMU

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Theridiidae

Genus

Thymoites