Bagheera prosper (Peckham & Peckham, 1901)

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 295

Bagheera prosper (Peckham & Peckham, 1901)

Bagheera prosper Bradley 2013: 186; Jackman 1997: 167; Jackman et al. 2007: 199; Maddison 1996: 233, mf (figs 84-85, 99) [T]; Richman et al. 2005: 216; Richman et al. 2011b: 4; Richman et al. 2012a: 4; Richman et al. 2012b: 4; Ruiz and Edwards 2013: 20, mf, desc. (figs 2, 6, 10, 13-16)

Dendryphantes prosper Peckham and Peckham, 1901; Banks 1910: 66; Peckham and Peckham 1901a: 314, m, desc. (pl. 27, figs 5-5a); Peckham and Peckham 1909: 457, m, desc.; Petrunkevitch 1911: 640; Roewer 1955: 1204

Metaphidippus prosper Peckham and Peckham, 1901; Vogel 1970b: 18

Distribution.

Atascosa, Bexar, Burnet, Comal, Hays, Hood, Hunt, Kimble, Llano, Randall, Runnels, Starr, Tom Green, Val Verde, Wichita

Locality.

Lake Ballinger, Lake Tawakoni State Park, Llano City Lake Park, Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge

Time of activity.

Male (March - April, July - October); female (April, July)

Habitat.

(grass: grasses and herbs); (littoral: creek vegetation, lake edge, stream edge vegetation); (plants: on leaf, on tree, vegetation); (soil/woodland: cedar, elm, mesquite, oak, riparian mesquite forest); (web: large spider web)

Method.

Beating [m]; flight intercept trap [m]

Type.

Texas (male, Bexar Co., San Antonio, no date, no collector, syntype, MCZ)

Etymology.

Latin, agreeable

Collection.

MSU, NMSU, TAMU, WTAM