Pisaurina mira (Walckenaer, 1837)

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 291

Pisaurina mira (Walckenaer, 1837)

Pisaurina mira Agnew et al. 1985: 4, 9; Bishop 1924: 23, mf (pl. 5, figs 1-2, pl. 6, figs 1-2, pl. 7, fig. 1, pl. 8, figs 1-4, pl. 9, figs 1-6); Bradley 2013: 182; Brown 1974: 236; Bumroongsook et al. 1992: 17; Carico 1972: 300, mf, desc. (figs 1-6, 13, 17-18); Dean et al. 1988: 286; Dondale and Redner 1990: 326, mf, desc. (figs 550-553); Jackman 1997: 91, desc., 167 (photo 23b); Kaston 1953: 138, desc. (fig. 345); Kaston 1972: 190, desc. (fig. 426); Kaston 1978: 181, desc. (fig. 458); Montgomery 1904: 320, desc.; Woods and Harrel 1976: 43; Yantis 2005: 67, 198, 201; Young and Edwards 1990: 21

Distribution.

Eastern ½ Texas; Anderson, Archer, Bexar, Brazos, Erath, Grimes, Houston, Hunt, Jefferson, Kerr, Leon, Madison, Nacogdoches, Rusk, Sabine, Travis, Trinity, Upshur, Walker, Wichita

Locality.

Lick Creek Park

Time of activity.

Male (March - May); female (March - June)

Habitat.

(crops: cotton, peanuts, rice); (soil/woodland: beech-magnolia forest, on ground, woods by creek bank, pine woods [%: 66, 67, 69, 82, 85, 86, 95, 97], post oak woods [%: 41, 56, 71, 74, 77, 82, 84, 91, 92, 94, 96]); (structures: side of building near light)

Method.

5 gallon bucket trap [mf]; malaise trap [m]

Type.

Georgia

Etymology.

Latin, wonderful

Collection.

MSU, TAMU