Lupettiana mordax (O. P.-Cambridge, 1896)

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 31

Lupettiana mordax (O. P.-Cambridge, 1896)

Lupettiana mordax Bradley 2013: 75; Brescovit 1997: 68, mf, desc. (figs 157-162 [T]); Calixto et al. 2013: 181

Teudis mordax (O. P.-Cambridge, 1896); Breene et al. 1993c: 9, 47, 75, mf (figs 67A-C); Dean and Eger 1986: 142; Dean and Sterling 1990: 402; Dean et al. 1982: 255; Jackman 1997: 161; Kaston 1978: 224, desc. (fig. 572); Liao et al. 1984: 410; Platnick 1974: 263, mf, desc. (figs 131-133); Vincent and Frankie 1985: 380; Young and Edwards 1990: 14

Anyphaena sp. prob. celer (Hentz, 1847); Dean et al. 1982: 255 [misidentified]

Anyphaena celer (Hentz, 1847); Young and Edwards 1990: 14 [misidentified]

Distribution.

East Texas; Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Goliad, Robertson, Sabine, Travis, Walker

Locality.

Bastrop State Park, Ellis Prison Unit, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Lick Creek Park, Somerville Lake, Stetz Pecan Orchard, Texas A&M University Rangeland Area

Time of activity.

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

Habitat.

(crops: cotton); (grass: tall grass prairie); (orchard: pecan); (plants: bluebonnets, Indian paintbrush, miscellaneous vegetation); (soil/woodland: beech-magnolia forest, live oak, trees, Juniperus ashei , Quercus buckleyi , Quercus virginiana , Ulmus crassifolia )

Method.

Beating [mf]; cardboard band [mf]; malaise trap [f]; pitfall trap [m]; suction trap [m]; sweeping [mf]

Type.

Mexico, Guerrero, Omiltemi

Etymology.

Latin, biting

Collection.

TAMU