Araneus illaudatus (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936)

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 39

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.570.6095
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scientific name	Araneus illaudatus (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936)
status

Treatment

Araneus illaudatus Jackman 1997: 73, 161; Levi 1971a: 176, m, desc. (figs 233-240); Levi 1975b: 268 [S], m (figs 3-4)

Aranea illaudata Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936; Gertsch and Mulaik 1936b: 19, m, desc. (figs 36-37); Roewer 1942: 861

Araneus iliaudatus (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936); Vogel 1970b: 3

Araneus pima Levi, 1971; Levi 1971a: 176, mf, desc. (figs 218-232)

Distribution.

Brewster, Dallam, Galveston, Hidalgo, Jeff Davis, Kerr

Caves.

Brewster (O.T.L. Cave)

Time of activity.

Female (September - October)

Habitat.

(landscape features: cave); (structures: barns, under house eave); (soil/woodland: trees)

Type.

Texas (male, Hidalgo Co., Edinburg, September-December 1933, S. Mulaik, holotype, AMNH)

Etymology.

Greek, referring to a rope or band

Collection.

DMNS, TAMU, TMM

Note.

Hoffman (1982: 93) stated that this species does not occur in Texas because of the habitat it has been associated with and the distance from other collecting sites.