Trachelas mexicanus Banks, 1898

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 423

Trachelas mexicanus Banks, 1898

Trachelas mexicanus Agnew et al. 1985: 8; Calixto et al. 2013: 181, 185, 187; Jackman 1997: 162; Lombardini et al. 2005: 1378; Platnick and Shadab 1974a: 12, mf, desc. (figs 18-21, 46); Roberts 2001: 50

Distribution.

Bexar, Brazos, Brewster, Burleson, Cameron, Comanche, Erath, Goliad, Hale, Hays, Hidalgo, Howard, Hunt, Lubbock, Medina, Potter, Presidio, Robertson, Travis, Val Verde, Washington, Wichita

Locality.

Adriance Pecan Orchard, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Big Bend National Park, Bill Haney Pecan Orchard, Chinati Mountains, Frontera Audubon, Goliad State Park, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Lick Creek Park, Riley Estate, Somerville Lake, Storey Pecan Orchard, Wildcat Bluff Nature Center

Time of activity.

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

Habitat.

(crops: peanuts); (grass: grass); (orchard: grapefruit, orange, pecan, sour orange); (soil/woodland: Juniperus unmanaged plot, old field, post oak savanna with pasture, saltcedar, sandy area, trees/shrubs, under bark, Quercus buckleyi , Quercus virginiana , Ulmus crassifolia ); (structures: in house)

Method.

Beating [mf]; cardboard band [mf]; flight intercept trap on ground [f]; irrigation tubing [f]; pitfall trap [mf]; sweeping [m]

Type.

Mexico, Nayarit

Etymology.

locality (country)

Collection.

DMNS, JCC, MSU, NMSU, TAMU