Phidippus carolinensis Peckham & Peckham, 1909

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 341

Phidippus carolinensis Peckham & Peckham, 1909

Phidippus carolinensis Agnew et al. 1985: 8; Carpenter 1972: 162; Edwards 2004: 32 [T], mf, desc. (figs C5-6, 36-42); Hunter 1988: 18-19, 21; Jackman 1997: 168; Knutson et al. 2010: 515; Peckham and Peckham 1909: 422; Richman and Cutler 1978: 95; Richman et al. 2011b: 54; Richman et al. 2012a: 54; Richman et al. 2012b: 54; Roberts 2001: 51; Vogel 1970b: 19

Dendryphantes carolinensis (Peckham and Peckham, 1909); Petrunkevitch 1911: 626; Roewer 1955: 1207

Distribution.

Bell, Bexar, Cameron, Cherokee, Clay, Comanche, Coryell, Dallas, Dickens, Eastland, Ellis, Erath, Frio, Gillespie, Haskell, Hidalgo, Howard, Kerr, Kimble, McLennan, Montague, Nolan, Nueces, Parker, Potter, Randall, Roberts, Runnels, Sutton, Tarrant, Taylor, Travis, Wichita [Weatherford is a city in Parker Co.]

Locality.

Lake Meredith, Nabor’s Lake, Wildcat Bluff Nature Center

Time of activity.

Male (June - September); female (April - June, August - October)

Habitat.

(grass: grassland); (landscape features: under rock); (plants: roadside vegetation, vegetation); (soil/woodland: mesquite bush, saltcedar, under bark, wild plum thicket, willow, woodland, woods); (structures: retreat under picnic table, window)

Method.

Black light trap [m]; sweeping [mf]

Type.

Texas (male, female, Erath Co., Stephenville [North Carolina, type mislabeled])

Etymology.

locality (Latin adjective from geographic name, the state of NC, Peckham and Peckham 1909).

Collection.

MSU, NMSU, TAMU, WTAM