Hibana futilis (Banks, 1898)

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 29

Hibana futilis (Banks, 1898)

Hibana futilis Armstrong and Richman 2007: 395; Brescovit 1991: 742 [S, T]; Brescovit 1993: 138; Calixto et al. 2013: 181; Jackman 1997: 161; Patt and Pfannenstiel 2008: 65; Patt and Pfannenstiel 2009: 14; Pfannenstiel 2008a: 204; Taylor and Pfannenstiel 2008: 997

Anyphaena decepta Banks, 1899; Banks 1899: 190, f, desc

Aysha decepta (Banks, 1899); Agnew et al. 1985: 8; Breene et al. 1993b: 647; Brown 1974: 231; Dean and Sterling 1990: 402; Jones 1936: 70; Li 1990: 137, 142, 144; Platnick 1974: 256 [T], mf, desc. (figs 112-113, 123-124); Rapp 1984: 7; Roewer 1955: 534; Vincent and Frankie 1985: 380; Vogel 1970b: 5

Distribution.

Eastern ½ Texas; Bexar, Brazos, Burleson, Cameron, Coryell, Dallas, Erath, Falls, Galveston, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Mason, Medina, Nacogdoches, Robertson, Sabine, Travis, Washington, Wichita, Zavala

Locality.

Adriance Pecan Orchard, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Frontera Audubon, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Kenedy Ranch, Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, Lick Creek Park, Russell Farm, Storey Pecan Orchard, Texas A&M University Rangeland Area

Time of activity.

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

Habitat.

(crops: cotton, sugarcane); (grass: grass, grasses, grassy and shrub area); (littoral: salt marsh area); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest); (orchard: citrus, grapefruit, orange, pecan, sour orange); (plants: miscellaneous vegetation, Amaranthus palmeri ); (soil/woodland: live oak, post oak savanna with pasture, sandy area, thorn thicket, trees/shrubs); (structures: house, indoors)

Method.

Beating [mf]; boll weevil pheromone trap [mf]; cardboard band [mf]; D-Vac suction [m]; flight intercept trap [mf]; fogging [mf]; irrigation tubing [mf]; malaise trap [m]; pitfall trap [mf]; suction trap [f]; sweeping [mf]

Type.

Mexico, Baja California

Etymology.

Latin, vain

Collection.

DMNS, MSU, TAMU