Asagena americana Emerton, 1882

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 373

Asagena americana Emerton, 1882

Asagena americana Wunderlich 2008: 199 [T]

Steatoda americana (Emerton, 1882); Agnew et al. 1985: 6; Brown 1974: 238; Henderson 2007: 54, 75, 78, 81, 85; Jackman 1997: 59, desc., 169; Levi 1957b: 400, mf, desc. (figs 66-69); Levi and Randolph 1975: 40; Vogel 1970b: 24; Yantis 2005: 198

Distribution.

Baylor, Bexar, Brazos, Erath, Leon, Nacogdoches, Titus, Travis, Wichita

Locality.

Lick Creek Park, Texas A&M University Rangeland Area

Time of activity.

Male (March 15-April 15, April - May, July - August); female (July)

Habitat.

(littoral: near pond, pond, sedge meadow); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [f]); (soil/woodland: post oak woods [%: 82], post oak woodland, woods)

Method.

5 gallon bucket trap [m]; pitfall trap [m] (near pond [m])

Type.

Massachusetts, Boston

Etymology.

locality (country)

Collection.

DMNS, MSU, TAMU