Zygoballus rufipes Peckham & Peckham, 1885

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 356

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scientific name

Zygoballus rufipes Peckham & Peckham, 1885
status

 

Zygoballus rufipes Peckham & Peckham, 1885

Zygoballus rufipes Agnew et al. 1985: 5, 11; Banks 1910: 74; Breene et al. 1993c: 25, 48, 68, 69, mf (figs 51A-B, 52A-C); Comstock 1912: 697; Comstock 1940: 705; Dean and Eger 1986: 143; Dean and Sterling 1990: 403, 405; Dean et al. 1982: 256; Dean et al. 1987: 268; Dean et al. 1988: 287; Edwards 1980: 12 [S]; Henderson 2007: 64, 70, 78, 81, 84; Hill and Edwards 2013: 35; Hunter 1988: 18-21; Jackman 1997: 138, desc., 168; Nyffeler et al. 1992c: 3; Peckham and Peckham 1909: 581, mf, desc.; Petrunkevitch 1911: 719; Rapp 1984: 9; Richman and Cutler 1978: 101; Richman et al. 2011b: 78; Richman et al. 2012a: 77; Richman et al. 2012b: 77; Roewer 1955: 1018; Vogel 1970b: 20; Young and Edwards 1990: 23

Zygoballus nervosus (Peckham and Peckham, 1888); Dean and Eger 1986: 143 [misidentified]

Zygoballus bettini Peckham and Peckham, 1888; Brown 1974: 237; Kaston 1953: 115, desc. (fig. 279); Kaston 1972: 265, desc. (fig. 599); Kaston 1978: 254, desc. (fig. 648); Pamanes-Guerrero 1975: 60; Peckham and Peckham 1909: 579, mf, desc. (pl. 50, figs 7-7e, pl. 51, fig. 10); Petrunkevitch 1911: 718; Vogel 1970b: 20

Distribution.

Anderson, Archer, Bastrop, Bexar, Bosque, Brazos, Burleson, Cameron, Colorado, Coryell, Ellis, Erath, Falls, Fannin, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hays, Hidalgo, Houston, Hunt, Kerr, Montgomery, Nacogdoches, Polk, San Patricio, Titus, Travis, Uvalde, Walker, Williamson, Wood

Locality.

Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Brazos Bend State Park, Ellis Prison Unit, Galveston Island State Park, Garner State Park, Jones State Forest, Lacuna Park, Lick Creek Park, Mansfield Dam, Reimers Ranch Park, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary, Sam Houston National Forest, Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Stubblefield Lake, Welder Wildlife Refuge

Time of activity.

Male (March - November); female (February - December)

Habitat.

(crops: cotton, peanuts); (grass: grass, grassland, pasture); (littoral: salt marsh, sedge meadow); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [mf]); (plants: bluebonnets, Indian paintbrush, miscellaneous vegetation, weed, Monarda citriodora ); (soil/woodland: buckeye-sycamore forest, disturbed habitat, hackberry matte, juniper, post oak savanna with pasture, roadside vegetation, sandy area, upland woods, woods, woodland, Quercus virginiana ); (structures: abandoned shack)

Method.

Boll weevil pheromone trap [m]; flight intercept trap [f]; pitfall trap [mf] (in sand [m]); suction trap [mf]; sweeping [mf]

Type.

Guatemala

Etymology.

Latin, reddish legs

Collection.

MSU, TAMU

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Banks, N, 1910. Catalogue of nearctic spiders. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 72: 1-80. doi: 10.5479/si.03629236.72.i

Breene, RG, Dean, DA, Nyffeler, M, Edwards, GB, 1993c. Biology, predation ecology, and significance of spiders in Texas cotton ecosystems with a key to the species. Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 1711, 115 pp.

Brown, KM, 1974. A preliminary checklist of spiders of Nacogdoches, Texas. Journal of Arachnology 1: 229-240.

Comstock, JH, 1912. The spider book; a manual for the study of the spiders and their near relatives, the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whipscorpions, harvestmen and other members of the Class Arachnida, found in America north of Mexico, with analytical keys for their classification and popular accounts of their habits. Garden City, New York, 721 pp.

Comstock, JH, 1940. The spider book, revised and edited by W. J. Gertsch. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, reprinted 1975, 729 pp.

Dean, DA, Sterling, WL, Horner, NV, 1982. Spiders in eastern Texas cotton fields. Journal of Arachnology 10: 251-260.

Dean, DA, Eger, Jr. JE, 1986. Spiders associated with Lupinus texensis (Leguminosae) and Castilleja indivisa (Scrophulariaceae) in south central Texas. Southwestern Entomologist 11: 139-147.

Dean, DA, Sterling, WL, Nyffeler, M, Breene, RG, 1987. Foraging by selected spider predators on the cotton fleahopper and other prey. Southwestern Entomologist 12: 263-270.

Dean, DA, Nyffeler, M, Sterling, WL, 1988. Natural enemies of spiders: mud dauber wasps in east Texas. Southwestern Entomologist 13: 283-290.

Dean, DA, Sterling, WL, 1990. Seasonal patterns of spiders captured in suction traps in eastern Texas. Southwestern Entomologist 15: 399-412.

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Henderson, TY, 2007. Diversity, distribution, and abundance of ground dwelling spiders at Lick Creek Park, College Station, Texas. MS thesis, College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University.

Hill, DE, Edwards, GB, 2013. Origins of the North American jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Peckhamia 107.1: 1-67.

Hunter, MJ, 1988. Habitat preference in jumping spiders (Salticidae) and a survey of species in Ellis County, Texas. MS thesis, Arlington, Texas: University of Texas at Arlington.

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

Kaston, BJ, 1953. How to know the spiders, first edition, Dubuque, Iowa, 220 pp.

Kaston, BJ, 1972. How to know the spiders, second edition, Dubuque, Iowa, 289 pp.

Kaston, BJ, 1978. How to know the spiders, third edition, William C. Brown Company, Publishers, Dubuque, Iowa, 272 pp.

Nyffeler, M, Dean, DA, Sterling, WL, 1992c. Spiders associated with lemon horsemint, (Monarda citriodora Cervantes) in east central Texas. Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 1707, 6 pp.

Pamanes-Guerrero, A, 1975. Spider populations in cotton. PhD thesis, College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University.

Peckham, GW, Peckham, EG, 1909. Revision of the Attidae of North America. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Science Arts and Letters 16(1): 355-646.

Petrunkevitch, A, 1911. A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.23819

Rapp, WF, 1984. The spiders of Galveston Island (Texas). Novitates Arthropodae 2: 1-10.

Richman, DB, Cutler, B, 1978. A list of the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the United States and Canada. Peckhamia 1(5): 82-110. (online version 29.1, 2008)

Richman, DB, Cutler, B, Hill, DE, 2011b. Salticidae of North America, including Mexico. Peckhamia 95.1, 88 pp.

Richman, DB, Cutler, B, Hill, DE, 2012a. Salticidae of North America, including Mexico. Peckhamia 95.2, 88 pp.

Richman, DB, Cutler, B, Hill, DE, 2012b. Salticidae of North America, including Mexico. Peckhamia 95.3, 88 pp.

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Vogel, BR, 1970b. Bibliography of Texas Spiders. Armadillo Papers 2: 1-36.

Young, OP, Edwards, GB, 1990. Spiders in United States field crops and their potential effect on crop pests. Journal of Arachnology 18: 1-27.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Salticidae

Genus

Zygoballus