Thymoites expulsus (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936)

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 398

Thymoites expulsus (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936)

Thymoites expulsus Agnew et al. 1985: 3; Breene et al. 1993b: 648; Breene et al. 1993c: 28, 48, 60, mf (figs 29A-B); Dean and Eger 1986: 141; Dean and Sterling 1987: 6; Jackman 1997: 169; Levi 1964a: 469 [T]; Levi and Randolph 1975: 47; Vogel 1970b: 25; Young and Edwards 1990: 24

Theridion expulsum Gertsch and Mulaik, 1936; Gertsch and Mulaik 1936b: 9, mf, desc. (figs 16-17); Roewer 1942: 503

Theridium expulsum Gertsch and Mulaik, 1936; Bonnet 1959: 4471

Paidisca expulsa (Gertsch and Mulaik, 1936); Levi 1957a: 109 [T], 120, mf, desc. (figs 400, 416-417)

Distribution.

Cameron, Colorado, Erath, Hidalgo, Llano, Nueces, Travis, Uvalde, Val Verde, Wharton

Locality.

Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Garner State Park, Piper’s Lake, Seminole Canyon State Park

Time of activity.

Male (March - August); female (March - April, June - August)

Habitat.

(crops: cotton, peanuts, sugarcane); (grass: grass); (orchard: grapefruit); (plants: bluebonnets); (soil/woodland: Juniperus ashei )

Method.

Beating [m]; D-Vac suction [mf]; suction trap [mf]; sweeping [mf]

Type.

Texas (male, Hidalgo Co., Edinburg, March and April, 1934, S. Mulaik, holotype, AMNH)

Etymology.

Latin, driven out

Collection.

TAMU