Cicurina sheari Gertsch, 1992

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 103-104

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.570.6095
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scientific name	Cicurina sheari Gertsch, 1992
status

Treatment

Cicurina sheari Culver et al. 2003: 464; Gertsch 1992: 115, f, desc. (figs 135-136); Jackman 1997: 162; Paquin and Dupérré 2009: 44, f, desc. (figs 98-99, 136)

Distribution.

Real

Caves.

Real (Ramsey Bat Cave)

Time of activity.

Female (October)

Habitat.

(landscape features: cave)

Type.

Texas (female, Real Co., Ramsey Bat Cave, October 2, 1976, D. Pate, R. Hemperly, K. Heuss, holotype, AMNH)

[male unknown]

Etymology.

Person (Named for William A. Shear, student of spider behavior and evolution, Gertsch 1992).

Collection.

TMM

Culver, DC, Christman, MC, Elliott, WR, Hobbs, III HH, Reddell, JR, 2003. The North American obligate cave fauna: regional patterns. Biodiversity and Conservation 12: 441-468. doi: 10.1023/A:1022425908017

Gertsch, WJ, 1992. Distribution patterns and speciation in North American cave spiders with a list of the troglobites and revision of the cicurinas of the subgenus Cicurella. Texas Memorial Museum, Speleological Monographs 3: 75-122.

Jackman, JA, 1997. A field guide to spiders and scorpions of Texas. Texas Monthly Field Guide Series, Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, Texas, 201 pp.

Paquin, P, Duperre, N, 2009. A first step towards the revision of Cicurina: redescription of type specimens of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution. Zootaxa 2002: 1-67.