Mimetus hesperus Chamberlin, 1923

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 239

Mimetus hesperus Chamberlin, 1923

Mimetus hesperus Agnew et al. 1985: 4, 9; Breene et al. 1993c: 20, 47, 90, mf (figs 118A-C); Calixto et al. 2013: 183; Chamberlin 1923: 5, mf, desc. (figs 2, 7-8); Chamberlin 1924b: 651; Dean and Eger 1986: 141; Dean and Sterling 1990: 401, 404; Dean et al. 1982: 254; Dean et al. 1988: 286; Gertsch and Mulaik 1940: 333; Jackman 1997: 43, desc., 165; Kagan 1942: 14; Kaston 1972: 185 (fig. 411); Kaston 1978: 176 (fig. 442); Mott 1989: 63, mf, desc. (figs 44-50); Roewer 1942: 1023; Vogel 1970b: 14; Vogel and Durden 1972: 1; Young and Edwards 1990: 20

Mimetus notius Chamberlin, 1923; Dean and Sterling 1990: 401 [misidentified]

Distribution.

Archer, Atascosa, Baylor, Bee, Bell, Bexar, Brazos, Brewster, Brown, Colorado, Comanche, Concho, Coryell, Culberson, Erath, Grayson, Hamilton, Harris, Hidalgo, Houston, Jackson, Jim Wells, Kenedy, Kerr, Live Oak, McLennan, Nueces, Pecos, Presidio, Robertson, Starr, Sutton, Tarrant, Taylor, Terrell, Tom Green, Travis, Walker, Wichita, Wilbarger, Young

Locality.

Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Big Bend National Park, Bill Haney Pecan Orchard, Ellis Prison Unit, Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Lake Kickapoo, Lick Creek Park

Time of activity.

Male (February - December); female (February - December)

Habitat.

(crops: cotton, peanuts); (grass: grassland, pasture); (landscape features: under rock); (littoral: sedge meadow); (orchard: pecan); (plants: bluebonnets, Indian paintbrush, miscellaneous vegetation, roadside vegetation); (soil/woodland: post oak savanna with pasture)

Method.

Beating [f]; cardboard band [f]; D-Vac suction; fogging [m]; pitfall trap [mf]; suction trap [mf]; sweeping [mf]

Type.

California, Claremont

Etymology.

Greek, western

Collection.

DMNS, MSU, SIUC, TAMU