Pardosa delicatula Gertsch & Wallace, 1935

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 220

Pardosa delicatula Gertsch & Wallace, 1935

Pardosa delicatula Agnew et al. 1985: 7; Armstrong and Richman 2007: 395; Bonnet 1958: 3365; Breene et al. 1993a: 169; Breene et al. 1993b: 647; Breene et al. 1993c: 18, 47, 96, mf (figs 135A-B); Brown 1974: 234; Calixto et al. 2013: 180, 183, 187; Dean and Sterling 1987: 6; Dean et al. 1982: 254; Dondale and Redner 1984: 77, mf, desc. (figs 3, 6, 45-47); Gertsch and Wallace 1935: 4, mf, desc. (figs 13, 17); Irungu 2007: 28, 31; Jackman 1997: 88, desc., 165; Roewer 1955: 189; Rogers and Horner 1977: 523; Vogel 1970b: 13; Vogel 2004: 76, mf, desc. (figs 45, 59); Young and Edwards 1990: 19

Distribution.

Widespread; Aransas, Archer, Bastrop, Baylor, Brazos, Brewster, Burleson, Caldwell, Cameron, Colorado, Comanche, Coryell, Dickens, Erath, Hidalgo, Houston, Hunt, Jefferson, Kenedy, Knox, Nueces, Robertson, San Saba, Travis, Walker, Wichita, Williamson

Locality.

5-Eagle Ranch, Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Bill Haney Pecan Orchard, Ellis Prison Unit, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Kenedy Ranch, Lick Creek Park, NK Ranch, Russell Farm

Time of activity.

Male (February - December); female (February - December)

Habitat.

(crops: cabbage, cotton, guar, soybean, sugarcane); (grass: grass, in grass by house, pasture); (littoral: on water in ditch by cotton, sand dune area, sand dune under live oak); (orchard: citrus, pecan); (plants: bluebonnets, vegetation); (soil/woodland: ground, post oak savanna with pasture, trees/shrubs); (structures: around house)

Method.

Beating [f]; boll weevil pheromone trap [mf]; fogging [mf]; pitfall trap [mf]; yellow pan trap [m]; sweeping [f]

Eggs/spiderlings.

Walker [28 spiderlings] [TAMU]

Type.

Texas (male, Hidalgo Co., Edinburg, no date, S. Mulaik, holotype, AMNH)

Etymology.

Latin, delicate

Collection.

DMNS, MSU, NMSU, TAMU