Zygoballus rufipes Peckham & Peckham, 1885

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 356

Zygoballus rufipes Peckham & Peckham, 1885

Zygoballus rufipes Agnew et al. 1985: 5, 11; Banks 1910: 74; Breene et al. 1993c: 25, 48, 68, 69, mf (figs 51A-B, 52A-C); Comstock 1912: 697; Comstock 1940: 705; Dean and Eger 1986: 143; Dean and Sterling 1990: 403, 405; Dean et al. 1982: 256; Dean et al. 1987: 268; Dean et al. 1988: 287; Edwards 1980: 12 [S]; Henderson 2007: 64, 70, 78, 81, 84; Hill and Edwards 2013: 35; Hunter 1988: 18-21; Jackman 1997: 138, desc., 168; Nyffeler et al. 1992c: 3; Peckham and Peckham 1909: 581, mf, desc.; Petrunkevitch 1911: 719; Rapp 1984: 9; Richman and Cutler 1978: 101; Richman et al. 2011b: 78; Richman et al. 2012a: 77; Richman et al. 2012b: 77; Roewer 1955: 1018; Vogel 1970b: 20; Young and Edwards 1990: 23

Zygoballus nervosus (Peckham and Peckham, 1888); Dean and Eger 1986: 143 [misidentified]

Zygoballus bettini Peckham and Peckham, 1888; Brown 1974: 237; Kaston 1953: 115, desc. (fig. 279); Kaston 1972: 265, desc. (fig. 599); Kaston 1978: 254, desc. (fig. 648); Pamanes-Guerrero 1975: 60; Peckham and Peckham 1909: 579, mf, desc. (pl. 50, figs 7-7e, pl. 51, fig. 10); Petrunkevitch 1911: 718; Vogel 1970b: 20

Distribution.

Anderson, Archer, Bastrop, Bexar, Bosque, Brazos, Burleson, Cameron, Colorado, Coryell, Ellis, Erath, Falls, Fannin, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hays, Hidalgo, Houston, Hunt, Kerr, Montgomery, Nacogdoches, Polk, San Patricio, Titus, Travis, Uvalde, Walker, Williamson, Wood

Locality.

Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Brazos Bend State Park, Ellis Prison Unit, Galveston Island State Park, Garner State Park, Jones State Forest, Lacuna Park, Lick Creek Park, Mansfield Dam, Reimers Ranch Park, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary, Sam Houston National Forest, Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Stubblefield Lake, Welder Wildlife Refuge

Time of activity.

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

Habitat.

(crops: cotton, peanuts); (grass: grass, grassland, pasture); (littoral: salt marsh, sedge meadow); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [mf]); (plants: bluebonnets, Indian paintbrush, miscellaneous vegetation, weed, Monarda citriodora ); (soil/woodland: buckeye-sycamore forest, disturbed habitat, hackberry matte, juniper, post oak savanna with pasture, roadside vegetation, sandy area, upland woods, woods, woodland, Quercus virginiana ); (structures: abandoned shack)

Method.

Boll weevil pheromone trap [m]; flight intercept trap [f]; pitfall trap [mf] (in sand [m]); suction trap [mf]; sweeping [mf]

Type.

Guatemala

Etymology.

Latin, reddish legs

Collection.

MSU, TAMU