Metaltella simoni (Keyserling, 1878)

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 25

Metaltella simoni (Keyserling, 1878)

Metaltella simoni Cutler 2005a: 63; Jackman 1997: 99, desc., 160 (photo 27a); Reddell and Cokendolpher 2004: 76; Yantis 2005: 197 [ Leech 1972: 107, mf, desc. (figs 194-195, 390)]

Distribution.

Bexar, Brazos, Colorado, Galveston, Harris, Hidalgo, Leon (imm.), Montgomery, Orange, San Patricio, Wichita

Locality.

Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Lick Creek Park

Caves.

Bexar (Robber Baron Cave)

Time of activity.

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

Habitat.

(landscape features: cave); (littoral: near water); (objects: wood pile); (soil/woodland: debris under banana trees, leaf litter, post oak savanna, post oak woods [%: 70]); (structures: bathroom, indoors, in structure [bit collector causing reaction], on bed in house)

Method.

5 gallon bucket trap [imm.]; pitfall trap [mf]

Type.

Uruguay

Etymology.

Person (arachnologist)

Collection.

MSU, TAMU, TMM