Drassyllus gynosaphes Chamberlin, 1936

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 137-138

Drassyllus gynosaphes Chamberlin, 1936

Drassyllus gynosaphes Agnew et al. 1985: 7; Bowen et al. 2004: 188; Chamberlin 1936b: 16, mf, desc. (figs 26-28); Cokendolpher and Reddell 2001b: 45; Jackman 1997: 163; Platnick and Shadab 1982a: 17, mf, desc. (figs 36-41); Reddell and Cokendolpher 2004: 85; Roewer 1955: 415; Trevino 2014: 11; Vogel 1970b: 9; Yantis 2005: 197, 200

Distribution.

Anderson, Angelina, Bell, Bexar, Cameron, Erath, Gonzales, Grimes, Hidalgo, Houston, Madison, Travis, Webb, Wichita

Locality.

Angelina National Forest, Fort Hood, Palmetto State Park

Caves.

Bell (Price Pit Cave [Fort Hood]); Bexar (Backhole)

Time of activity.

Male (March - May, December); female (February, April - June, October)

Habitat.

(landscape features: cave); (littoral: edge of pond, near pond); (soil/woodland: edge of woods, hardwood bottomland, leaf litter, loblolly pine managed, longleaf pine managed, oak leaf litter, pine woods [%: 67, 95], post oak woods [%: 56, 94], woods)

Method.

5 gallon bucket trap [mf]; berlese funnel [f]; pitfall trap [mf] (edge of pond [mf], edge of woods [m], in dead leaves [m], in woods [f], near pond [m])

Type.

Texas (female, Hidalgo Co., Edinburg, April 1934, S. Mulaik, holotype, AMNH)

Etymology.

Greek, female

Collection.

MSU, TAMU, TMM