Xysticus funestus Keyserling, 1880

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 416-417

Xysticus funestus Keyserling, 1880

Xysticus funestus Agnew et al. 1985: 5, 10; Bonnet 1959: 4875; Breene et al. 1993c: 30, 48, 81, mf (figs 87A-C); Brown 1974: 238; Calixto et al. 2013: 185; Cokendolpher et al. 1979: 732; Dean et al. 1982: 255; Dondale and Redner 1978b: 211, mf, desc. (figs 635-639); Gertsch 1939a: 367 [S], mf, desc. (figs 162-163, 175); Gertsch 1953: 433; Jackman 1997: 126, 170; Kagan 1942: 48; Kagan 1943: 258; Kaston 1972: 245, desc. (fig. 556); Kaston 1978: 234, desc. (fig. 601); Milstead 1958: 446; Nyffeler et al. 1988a: 55; Reddell and Cokendolpher 2004: 94; Roewer 1955: 914 [S]; Turnbull et al. 1965: 1247; Vogel 1970b: 27; Yantis 2005: 67, 199, 202; Young and Edwards 1990: 25

Xysticus tumefactus (Walckenaer, 1837); Rapp 1984: 8

Xysticus nervosus Banks, 1892; Jones 1936: 69

Distribution.

Anderson, Archer, Baylor, Bexar, Brazos, Burleson, Cameron, Colorado, Comal, Comanche, Coryell, Dallas, Erath, Fort Bend, Galveston, Grimes, Hamilton, Harris, Henderson, Hidalgo, Houston, Jeff Davis, Kerr, Kimble, Lampasas, Lavaca, Leon, Madison, McLennan, Nacogdoches, Parker, Presidio, Robertson, Runnels, Sabine, Travis, Victoria, Walker, Wichita

Locality.

Anzalduas County Park, Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Bill Haney Pecan Orchard, Davis Moun tains Resort, Ellis Prison Unit, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Lick Creek Park, Riley Estate, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary, Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Zilker Park

Caves.

Bexar (Lone Gunman Pit)

Time of activity.

Male (January - July, September - December); female (January - December)

Habitat.

(crops: cotton, peanuts); (grass: grass); (landscape features: cave); (littoral: salt marsh area, sedge meadow); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [f]; stomach of Cnemidophorus sacki ); (orchard: pecan); (plants: bluebonnets, miscellaneous vegetation); (soil/woodland: beech-magnolia forest, leaf litter, pine woods [%: 60, 67, 69, 73, 82, 88], post oak savanna with pasture, post oak woods [%: 74, 80, 84, 96], tree, upland deciduous forest, woods); (structures: house wall, indoors, on floor in building)

Method.

5 gallon bucket trap [mf]; beating [f]; cardboard band [mf]; D-Vac suction [f]; flight intercept trap [f]; flight intercept trap on ground [m]; fogging [m]; malaise trap [mf]; pitfall trap [mf] (in leaves [f]); suction trap [mf]; sweeping [mf]

Type.

Maryland, Baltimore

Etymology.

Latin, deadly

Collection.

DMNS, MSU, TAMU, TMM