Platycryptus undatus (De Geer, 1778)

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 347

Platycryptus undatus (De Geer, 1778)

Platycryptus undatus Bradley 2013: 201; Bumroongsook et al. 1992: 18; Calixto et al. 2013: 184; Edwards 2006: 210 (figs 107-108); Hill 1979: 215 [T]; Jackman 1997: 168 (photo 41); Richman et al. 2011b: 64; Richman et al. 2012a: 63; Richman et al. 2012b: 63; Tugmon et al. 1990: 44; Young and Edwards 1990: 22

Marpissa undata (De Geer, 1778); Bonnet 1957: 2729; Jones 1936: 70; Kagan 1942: 72; Kagan 1943: 258

Metacyrba undata (De Geer, 1778); Agnew et al. 1985: 8; Barnes 1958: 36, mf, desc. (figs 55-56, 62, 65, 67, 69); Brown 1974: 236; Carpenter 1972: 167; Hunter 1988: 18-19; Kaston 1972: 264, desc. (figs 595-596); Kaston 1978: 252, desc. (figs 643-644); Rice 1986: 124; Richman and Cutler 1978: 88; Vogel 1970b: 18

Distribution.

Angelina, Archer, Bastrop, Bexar, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Cameron, Clay, Collin, Comanche, Coryell, Dallas, Deaf Smith, Denton, Ellis, Erath, Gaines, Harris, Hartley, Hays, Hidalgo, Houston, Jim Wells, Kerr, McLennan, Montgomery, Nacogdoches, Palo Pinto, Polk, Potter, Presidio, Randall, Robertson, Sabine, San Patricio, Tarrant, Taylor, Travis, Tyler, Victoria, Walker, Wheeler, Wichita

Locality.

Adriance Pecan Orchard, Bastrop State Park, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Bill Haney Pecan Orchard, Camp Tonkawa, Ellis Prison Unit, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Kirby State Forest, Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, Lake Corpus Christi State Park, Lake Tanglewood, Lick Creek Park, Lomita Ranch, Resaca de la Palma State Park, Riley Estate, Somerville Lake

Time of activity.

Male (January - December); female (January - December)

Habitat.

(crops: near cotton); (grass: grassland, sandy grassland); (landscape features: bridge, culvert, underpass, walls of highway concrete bridges); (littoral: dense coastal brush, sedge meadow); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [f]); (objects: cage outside, under board); (orchard: pecan, pecan tree trunk); (plants: flower, miscellaneous vegetation); (soil/woodland: beech-magnolia forest, juniper, on [bark, ground], tree trunk, trunk of ornamental tree, under bark, willow, woods, Ulmus crassifolia ); (structures: indoors, on [bedroom rug, brick wall], screen door, side of building)

Method.

Beating [f]; cardboard band [imm.]; flight intercept trap elevated [m]; fogging [mf]; Lindgren funnel trap [f]; malaise trap [m]; moth pheromone trap [m]; pitfall trap [mf]; sweeping [mf]

Type.

unknown

Etymology.

Latin, wavy lines

Collection.

DMNS, MCZ, MSU, NMSU, TAMU, WTAM