Dolomedes tenebrosus Hentz, 1844

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 290

Dolomedes tenebrosus Hentz, 1844

Dolomedes tenebrosus Agnew et al. 1985: 7; Bishop 1924: 40, mf (pl. 18, fig. 2, pl. 21, figs 1-5); Bradley 2013: 181; Brown 1974: 235; Carico 1970: 37; Carico 1973: 454, mf, desc. (figs 1-2, 25, 40, 53-54); Dondale and Redner 1990: 335 (figs 558-562); Griswold 1993: 7; Jackman 1997: 90, desc., 167 (photo 23a); Kaston 1978: 179 (fig. 451); Taber and Fleenor 2005: 273 (fig. 12-1); Woods and Harrel 1976: 43; Yantis 2005: 196, 200; Young and Edwards 1990: 21

Distribution.

Southeast Texas; Anderson, Archer, Brown, Erath, Gonzales, Hunt, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Nacogdoches, Polk, Trinity, Wichita, Wood, Young

Locality.

Palmetto State Park

Time of activity.

Male (April - June); female (April, June - July)

Habitat.

(crops: rice); (littoral: at water edge, under rocks along creek, wetlands); (soil/woodland: oak wood, pine woods [%: 80, 97, 100])

Method.

5 gallon bucket trap [mf]

Type.

Alabama, Carolina (of 1844), Massachusetts

Etymology.

Latin, darkness

Collection.

MSU, TAMU