Frontinella communis (Hentz, 1850)

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 193

Frontinella communis (Hentz, 1850)

Frontinella communis Blauvelt 1936: 145, mf, desc. (figs 90-95); Brown 1974: 234; Platnick 1998: 355 [S] [ Kaston 1948: 120, mf, desc. (figs 254-260)]

Frontinella pyramitela (Walckenaer, 1841); Agnew et al. 1985: 6, 11; Breene et al. 1993c: 17, 47, 111, mf (figs 178A-C); Dean and Sterling 1990: 404; Dean et al. 1982: 254; Jackman 1997: 63, desc., 164 (photo 19a); Nyffeler and Sterling 1994: 1295, 1298; Nyffeler et al. 1988b: 215; Taber and Fleenor 2003: 230; Young and Edwards 1990: 18

Distribution.

Archer, Bastrop, Bexar, Brazos, Brown, Erath, Galveston, Harris, Jack, Medina, Montgomery, Nacogdoches, Presidio, Travis, Walker, Wichita, Young

Locality.

Big Bend Ranch State Park, Buescher State Park, Ellis Prison Unit, Jones State Forest, Lick Creek Park, Sam Houston National Forest, Stubblefield Lake, Zilker Park

Caves.

Medina (Ney Cave)

Time of activity.

Male (March - May, July - October); female (March - May, July - November)

Habitat.

(crops: cotton); (landscape features: cave); (littoral: sedge meadow); (plants: cactus, vegetation); (soil/woodland: palm grove, juniper, woods, Juniperus ashei , Quercus buckleyi ); (web: in web)

Method.

Beating [m]; suction trap [mf]; sweeping [mf]

Type.

United States

Etymology.

Latin, common

Collection.

DMNS, MSU, NMSU, TAMU, TMM