Poultonella alboimmaculata (Peckham & Peckham, 1883)

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 348

Poultonella alboimmaculata (Peckham & Peckham, 1883)

Poultonella alboimmaculata Carpenter 1972: 165; Cokendolpher and Horner 1978: 135, mf, desc. (figs 1-3, 6-7); Cokendolpher et al. 2008: 10, 50; Hedin and Maddison 2001a: 388; Jackman 1997: 168; Richman and Cutler 1978: 98; Richman et al. 2005: 210; Richman et al. 2011b: 65; Richman et al. 2012a: 65; Richman et al. 2012b: 65

Distribution.

Carson, Dickens, Donley, Nolan, Upton, Wichita, Zapata [see note below]

Locality.

Falcon Lake, Pantex Lake (edge), Pantex Plant

Time of activity.

Male (January, April - August); female (May - September)

Habitat.

(crops: Helianthus sp.); (grass: grassland, Bromus tectorum ); (plants: low bush, sparse sage, Asclepias aenotheroides , Gaillardia pulchella , Thelesperma sp.); (soil/woodland: mesquite, saltcedar)

Method.

Ballooning [m]; beating [mf]; sweeping

Eggs/spiderlings.

Upton [eggsac laid late June 2013, hatched mid July, 13 spiderlings] [TAMU]

Type.

Iowa

Etymology.

Latin, cephalothorax white, dense short white hairs

Collection.

MSU, TAMU, WTAM

Note.

not Brewster Co. (mistake on map, pers. comm, N. V. Horner).