Uloborus glomosus (Walckenaer, 1841)

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 428

Uloborus glomosus (Walckenaer, 1841)

Uloborus glomosus Agnew et al. 1985: 3; Breene et al. 1993a: 169; Breene et al. 1993b: 648; Breene et al. 1993c: 31, 48, 52, mf (figs 8A-C); Brown 1974: 239; Bumroongsook et al. 1992: 18; Dean and Eger 1986: 141; Dean and Sterling 1990: 401; Dean et al. 1982: 254; Dean et al. 1988: 286; Dondale et al. 2003: 41, mf, desc. (figs 31-35); Jackman 1997: 48, desc., 170 (photo 16b); Kaston 1972: 74, desc. (fig. 169); Kaston 1978: 76, desc. (fig. 187); Muma and Gertsch 1964: 22 [S], mf, desc. (figs 40-41, 44-45, 66-70); Nyffeler and Sterling 1994: 1295, 1298; Nyffeler et al. 1987c: 372; Nyffeler et al. 1988a: 55; Nyffeler et al. 1989: 374, 377; Rapp 1984: 3; Rice 1986: 124; Vogel 1970b: 28; Young and Edwards 1990: 25

Uloborus americanus Walckenaer, 1841; Bonnet 1959: 4759; Gertsch and Mulaik 1940: 335; Jones 1936: 69; Vogel 1970b: 28 [Texas records]

Uloborus mammeatus Hentz, 1850; McCook 1889: 176

Uloborus plumipes Emerton, 1888; Banks 1898b: 234

Distribution.

Eastern ½ Texas; Anderson, Archer, Atascosa, Bowie, Brazos, Brewster, Burleson, Cameron, Coryell, Dallas, Erath, Galveston, Goliad, Harris, Hidalgo, Houston, Hunt, Kerr, Lubbock, Montgomery, Nacogdoches, Newton, Polk, Presidio, Sabine, San Patricio, Starr, Travis, Tyler, Uvalde, Walker, Washington, Wichita, Zapata

Locality.

Adriance Pecan Orchard, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Big Bend National Park, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Brison Pecan Orchard, Chisos Mountains, Ellis Prison Unit, Frontera Audubon, Garner State Park, Kirby State Forest, La Gringa Resaca, Lake Corpus Christi State Park, Lake Tawakoni State Park, Lick Creek Park, Texas A&M University Rangeland Area

Time of activity.

Male (March 20-April 29, April - October); female (March - November)

Habitat.

(crops: cotton, peanuts, sugarcane); (grass: grass, grassland, grassy and shrub area, pasture); (littoral: woods); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest); (orchard: citrus, grapefruit, peach tree, pecan); (plants: bluebonnets, bush, miscellaneous vegetation); (soil/woodland: beech-magnolia forest, post oak savanna with pasture, woods, Juniperus ashei , Ulmus crassifolia ); (web: web near creek); (structures: porch)

Method.

Beating [mf]; beating/sweeping [f]; D-Vac suction [mf]; flight intercept trap on ground [m]; malaise trap [m]; suction trap [m]; sweeping [mf]

Eggs/spiderlings.

Brazos [36 spiderlings] [TAMU]

Type.

Georgia

Etymology.

Latin, referring to a rounded body

Collection.

DMNS, JCC, MSU, TAMU