Pardosa pauxilla Montgomery, 1904

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 222-223

Pardosa pauxilla Montgomery, 1904

Pardosa pauxilla Agnew et al. 1985: 4, 9; Breene et al. 1993a: 169; Breene et al. 1993c: 19, 47, 96, mf (figs 134A-B); Calixto et al. 2013: 183, 186-187; Chamberlin 1908: 180, f, desc. (pl. 13, fig. 9); Cokendolpher et al. 2008: 29 (photo 25); Dean and Sterling 1987: 6; Dean et al. 1982: 255; Dean et al. 1987: 264; Dean et al. 1988: 285; Dondale and Redner 1984: 94, mf, desc. (figs 24, 27, 65-67); Gertsch and Wallace 1935: 4, mf (figs 11, 15); Irungu 2007: 28, 31; Jackman 1997: 165 (photo 22d); Jones 1936: 69; Milstead 1958: 445; Montgomery 1904: 268, mf, desc. (pl. 19, figs 22-23); Nyffeler et al. 1987b: 1121; Petrunkevitch 1911: 574; Rogers and Horner 1977: 523; Vogel 1970b: 13; Vogel 2004: 78, mf, desc. (figs 46, 58); Vogel and Durden 1972: 1; Young and Edwards 1990: 20

Pardosa uncatula F Cambridge, 1902; Gertsch 1934a: 20; Roewer 1955: 190; Vogel 1970b: 14 [Texas records]

Distribution.

Widespread; Archer, Bastrop, Baylor, Blanco, Brazos, Briscoe, Burleson, Caldwell, Cameron, Clay, Colorado, Comal, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell, Dallas, Erath, Frio, Guadalupe, Hale, Hidalgo, Hopkins, Houston, Kerr, Kleberg, Knox, Llano, Lubbock, Nueces, Palo Pinto, Robertson, San Saba, Terrell, Travis, Walker, Wichita, Williamson, Wilson

Locality.

5-Eagle Ranch, Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Bill Haney Pecan Orchard, Blackstone Ranch, Browning Ranch, Ellis Prison Unit, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Lake Travis, Lick Creek Park, NK Ranch, Proctor Lake, Stiles Farm Foundation

Time of activity.

Male (February - October, December); female (January - October)

Habitat.

(crops: cabbage, cotton, guar, peanuts, soybean); (grass: grass, pasture, sandy-prairie grass); (littoral: edge of pond, near pond, playa, stream or pond margin); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [f], stomach of Cnemidophorus sacki ); (orchard: citrus, pecan); (plants: bluebonnets, miscellaneous vegetation); (soil/woodland: on ground, post oak savanna with pasture, sandy area, Juniperus ashei )

Method.

Fogging [f]; pitfall trap [mf] (edge of pond [mf], in sand [f], near pond [mf]); suction trap [mf]; sweeping [mf]

Eggs/spiderlings.

Erath [62 spiderlings] [TAMU]

Type.

Texas (male, Travis Co., Austin, no date, no collector, lectotype, AMNH)

Etymology.

Latin, near water

Collection.

DMNS, MSU, TAMU