Neoantistea mulaiki Gertsch, 1946

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 171

Neoantistea mulaiki Gertsch, 1946

Neoantistea mulaiki Agnew et al. 1985: 4, 9; Breene et al. 1993c: 16, 47, 89, mf (figs 115A-B); Calixto et al. 2013: 182; Cokendolpher et al. 2008: 9, 22; Dean et al. 1982: 254; Gertsch 1946b: 34, mf, desc. (pl. 1, figs 5-6); Irungu 2007: 30; Jackman 1997: 164; Opell 1974: 112 [see note below]; Opell and Beatty 1976: 409, mf, desc. (figs 38-41); Reddell and Cokendolpher 2004: 85; Vogel 1967: 86; Vogel 1970b: 10; Young and Edwards 1990: 17

Neoantistea sp. nr riparia (Keyserling, 1887); Irungu 2007: 30 [misidentified]

Distribution.

Central, east, and south Texas; Archer, Bexar, Blanco, Brazos, Burleson, Cameron, Carson, Colorado, Comanche, Erath, Galveston, Hidalgo, Kendall, Kerr, La Salle, Llano, Montgomery, Victoria, Walker, Williamson, Zapata

Locality.

Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Bill Haney Pecan Orchard, Browning Ranch, Ellis Prison Unit, Green Island Bird Refuge, Pantex Lake, Stiles Farm Foundation

Caves.

Bexar (Droll Cave, Obvious Little Cave)

Time of activity.

Male (March - October, December); female (January, April - November)

Habitat.

(crops: cabbage, cotton, peanuts); (grass: grassland); (landscape features: cave); (littoral: near playa); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [f]); (orchard: pecan); (soil/woodland: post oak savanna with pasture)

Method.

pitfall trap [mf]

Type.

Mexico, Monterrey

Etymology.

Person (collector of paratypes in Texas, Stanley Mulaik)

Collection.

MSU, TAMU, TMM

Note.

32 miles SE Laredo is in Zapata Co., not Webb Co.