Tayshaneta fawcetti Ledford et al., 2012

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 177

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/70D9E954-DA86-3EE7-4934-A15068CC35C1

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scientific name

Tayshaneta fawcetti Ledford et al., 2012
status

 

Tayshaneta fawcetti Ledford et al., 2012

Tayshaneta fawcetti Ledford et al. 2012: 42 [S], mf, desc. (figs 2B, 19A-F, 31D, 32D, 40A-F, 53C)

Leptoneta spp.; Reddell 1965: 172 [part]

Leptoneta valverdae Gertsch 1974; Gertsch 1974: 174, mf, desc.

Tayshaneta valverdae (Gertsch, 1974); Ledford et al. 2011: 337

Distribution.

Val Verde

Caves.

Val Verde ( Fawcett’s Cave [ Devil’s River State Natural Area])

Time of activity.

Male (November); female (April, November)

Habitat.

(landscape features: cave)

Type.

Texas (male, Val Verde Co., Fawcett’s Cave, Devil’s River State Natural Area, November 10, 2009, J. Ledford, J. Kennedy, M. Sanders, T. Garot, K. Wardlaw, holotype, CASC)

Etymology.

locality (The species name is taken in apposition to the type locality and honors the Fawcett family, who owned Fawcett’s Cave and the surrounding Fawcett Ranch prior to its transition as a State Natural Area in 1988, Ledford et al. 2012).

Collection.

TMM

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Leptonetidae

Genus

Tayshaneta