Agelenopsis emertoni Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 19

Agelenopsis emertoni Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935

Agelenopsis emertoni Ayoub et al. 2005: 44; Chamberlin and Ivie 1935b: 33, m, desc. (fig. 110); Chamberlin and Ivie 1941: 593, mf, desc. (figs 5, 28, 30); Guarisco 2008b: 5; Henderson 2007: 52, 76, 79, 82; Jackman 1997: 160; Roewer 1955: 41; Roth and Brown 1986: 5; Vogel 1967: 4; Vogel 1970b: 2; Whitman-Zai et al. 2015: 14, mf, desc. (figs 25-26, 42, 58); Yantis 2005: 66, 196, 199

Agelenopsis aperta (Gertsch, 1934); Yantis 2005: 196, 199 [misidentified]

Agelenopsis sp. nr emertoni Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935; Jackman et al. 2007: 199 [misidentified]

Agelenopsis sp. nr pennsylvanica (C. L. Koch, 1843); Henderson 2007: 55, 76, 79, 82 [misidentified]

Distribution.

Anderson, Bastrop, Bell, Brazos, Burleson, Dallas, Grayson, Grimes, Houston, Hunt, Leon, McLennan, Madison, Nueces, San Patricio, Trinity, Walker, Wichita

Locality.

Lake Tawakoni State Park, Lick Creek Park, Welder Wildlife Refuge, White Rock Lake

Time of activity.

Male (April, July - November); female (April - June, August - October)

Habitat.

(grass: grass); (littoral: moist salt beach); (soil/woodland: disturbed habitat, forest, pine woods [%: 60, 66, 69, 77, 80, 84, 86, 95, 97], post oak savanna with pasture, post oak woods [%: 60, 76, 82, 85, 93, 100], sandy area, sandy brushland, upland woods); (web: large spider web)

Method.

5 gallon bucket trap [mf]; beating [mf]; pitfall trap [mf]

Type.

Texas (male, Bell Co., Belton, September 1, 1933, W. Ivie, holotype, AMNH)

Etymology.

Person (Named for arachnologist James H. Emerton, Whitman-Zai et al. 2015).

Collection.

DMNS, MCZ, MSU, TAMU