Tibellus duttoni (Hentz, 1847)

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 276

Tibellus duttoni (Hentz, 1847)

Tibellus duttoni Agnew et al. 1985: 5, 11; Breene 1988: 35-36; Breene et al. 1989: 163; Breene et al. 1993b: 648; Breene et al. 1993c: 22, 48, 77, mf (figs 74A-B); Chickering 1940: 233; Cokendolpher et al. 1979: 729; Cokendolpher et al. 2008: 10, 48 (photo 30); Dean and Eger 1986: 142; Dean et al. 1982: 255; Dean et al. 1988: 287; Gertsch 1933a: 11, mf, desc. (figs 4-6); Irungu 2007: 31; Jackman 1997: 121, desc., 166 (photo 39c); Jones 1936: 69; Kaston 1953: 104, desc.; Kaston 1972: 248, desc.; Kaston 1978: 240, desc.; Nyffeler et al. 1992c: 2; Pamanes-Guerrero 1975: 17, 34, 38, 42, 60, 81; Rapp 1984: 8; Roberts 2001: 50; Tugmon et al. 1990: 44; Vogel 1970b: 27; Young and Edwards 1990: 21

Distribution.

Archer, Atascosa, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Brazoria, Brazos, Brown, Burleson, Burnet, Cameron, Camp, Carson, Clay, Coleman, Collin, Colorado, Coryell, Dallas, Denton, DeWitt, Erath, Falls, Fayette, Galveston, Glasscock, Hays, Hidalgo, Hill, Houston, Hunt, Jim Wells, Kendall, Kerr, Knox, Lampasas, Lavaca, Leon, Llano, Lynn, McMullen, Potter, Rains, Robertson, Runnels, San Patricio, San Saba, Somervell, Starr, Sterling, Titus, Travis, Val Verde, Victoria, Walker, Wichita, Willacy, Williamson, Zapata

Locality.

Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Ellis Prison Unit, Falcon State Park, Inks Lake State Park, Padre Island, Pantex Lake, Ramsey Prison Farm, Seminole Canyon State Park, South Padre Island, Stiles Farm Foundation, Texas A&M University Rangeland Area, Wildcat Bluff Nature Center

Time of activity.

Male (January - October, December); female (January - December)

Habitat.

(crops: cabbage, cotton, peanuts, sugarcane); (grass: grass, grasses, grassland, pasture, Hordeum pusillum ); (littoral: dune, edge of pond, grass in sand dunes, playa); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [f]); (plants: bluebonnets, Indian paintbrush, miscellaneous vegetation, roadside vegetation, Aphanostephus sp., Cassia sp., Monarda citriodora , Rudbeckia sp., Thelesperma sp., Vicia sp.); (soil/woodland: juniper, open field, under oak, post oak savanna with pasture, sedge, Juniperus ashei , Prosopis grandulosa , Ulmus crassifolia )

Method.

Beating [m]; D-Vac suction [mf]; pitfall trap [mf] (edge of pond [m], under oak [f]); sweeping [mf]

Type.

Georgia

Etymology.

Person (discoverer)

Collection.

DMNS, MSU, TAMU