Marpissa pikei (Peckham & Peckham, 1888)

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 320-321

Marpissa pikei (Peckham & Peckham, 1888)

Marpissa pikei Agnew et al. 1985: 5; Armstrong and Richman 2007: 396; Barnes 1958: 15, mf, desc. (figs 16-21); Breene et al. 1993b: 648; Breene et al. 1993c: 23, 48, 65, mf (figs 43A-D); Brown 1974: 236; Carpenter 1972: 166; Cokendolpher et al. 2008: 10, 49; Dean and Eger 1986: 142; Dean and Sterling 1987: 7; Hunter 1988: 18-20; Jackman 1997: 133, desc., 167; Rapp 1984: 9; Richman et al. 2011b: 29; Richman et al. 2012a: 28; Richman et al. 2012b: 28; Roberts 2001: 51; Tugmon et al. 1990: 44; Vogel 1970b: 18; Vogel and Durden 1972: 1; Young and Edwards 1990: 22

Distribution.

Brazoria, Brazos, Burnet, Cameron, Carson, Colorado, Dallas, Dickens, Ellis, Erath, Fannin, Floyd, Freestone, Frio, Galveston, Hamilton, Hardeman, Henderson, Hidalgo, Jack, Jeff Davis, Kaufman, Kent, Kerr, McMullen, Milam, Nacogdoches, Nueces, Oldham, Potter, Randall, Stephens, Travis, Uvalde, Val Verde, Wichita

Locality.

Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Davis Mountains, Garner State Park, Inks Lake State Park, Lick Creek Park, Medicine Mounds Ranch, Pantex Plant, Seminole Canyon State Park, South Padre Island, Wildcat Bluff Nature Center

Time of activity.

Male (April - December); female (April - October)

Habitat.

(crops: cotton, peanuts, sugarcane); (grass: Bermuda grass, grass, grassland, Johnson grass, tall grass); (landscape features: under rock); (littoral: near playa, salt marsh area); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [f]); (plants: bluebonnets, emergent vegetation, garden, miscellaneous vegetation, roadside vegetation, vegetation, weed); (structures: ceiling of picnic table); (soil/woodland: on ground, post oak savanna, trees/shrubs)

Method.

Beating [mf]; boll weevil pheromone trap [imm.]; D-Vac suction [mf]; pitfall trap; sweeping [mf]

Type.

New York, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida

Etymology.

Person (collector, Nicolas G. Pike)

Collection.

DMNS, MSU, TAMU, WTAM