Loxosceles devia Gertsch & Mulaik, 1940

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 362

Loxosceles devia Gertsch & Mulaik, 1940

Loxosceles devia Gertsch 1958b: 11, mf (figs 7-8, 12-14, 16-20, 24-26); Gertsch and Ennik 1983: 289, 339, mf, desc. (figs 1-7, 12-15, 28-31, 42-46); Jackman 1997: 35, 168; Reddell 1965: 173; Taber and Fleenor 2003: 234; Vetter 2008: 152; Vetter 2009: 519; Vetter 2015: 75, 78, 83; Vogel 1970b: 21

Loxosceles devius Gertsch and Mulaik, 1940; Gertsch and Mulaik 1940: 316, mf, desc; Vogel 1967: 122

Loxosceles arizonicus Gertsch and Mulaik, 1940; Gertsch and Mulaik 1940: 317 [Hidalgo Co. record]; Vogel 1970b: 21 [South Texas record]

Distribution.

Central and south Texas; Bexar, Brewster, Brooks, Cameron, Frio, Hidalgo, Jim Wells, Kenedy, Kerr, McLennan, Nueces, Real, San Augustine, San Patricio, Starr, Terrell, Uvalde, Webb, Wilson, Zapata

Locality.

Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Green Island Bird Refuge, La Mesa Ranch, Laguna Madre, Lake Corpus Christi, Raven Ranch, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary

Caves.

Real (Turkey Pens Cave); Uvalde (Tampke Ranch Cave)

Time of activity.

Male (February - June, August, September 25-October 2, October - December); female (January - August, October - December)

Habitat.

(grass: grass); (landscape features: cave, under [rock, rock in arroya bed]); (nest/prey: nest of Neotoma micropus [mf]); (objects: under board of dumpsite); (structures: on floor under box in bedroom); (soil/woodland: scrub forest)

Method.

pitfall trap [m]

Type.

Texas (male, Hidalgo Co., Edinburg, December 1933, S. Mulaik, holotype, AMNH)

Etymology.

Latin, distinct from Loxosceles unicolor Keyserling, 1887 (nomen dubium)

Collection.

MCZ, NMSU, TAMU, TMM