Bassaniana versicolor (Keyserling, 1880)

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 402

Bassaniana versicolor (Keyserling, 1880)

Bassaniana versicolor Calixto et al. 2013: 185; Jackman 1997: 169 (photo 40); Ono 1988: 74 [T]; Yantis 2005: 199

Coriarachne versicolor Keyserling, 1880; Agnew et al. 1985: 8; Bowling and Sauer 1975: 189 [S], mf, desc. (figs 6-7, 19-21); Cokendolpher et al. 1979: 729; Dean and Eger 1986: 142; Dean and Sterling 1990: 403; Gertsch 1939a: 405, mf, desc. (figs 254-255, 269); Gertsch 1953: 458, mf (figs 60-61, 64); Jones 1936: 69; Rapp 1984: 7; Vogel 1970b: 26

Coriarachne aemula O. P.-Cambridge, 1898; Gertsch 1953: 459, mf (figs 67-68); Roewer 1955: 832

Distribution.

Eastern ½ Texas; Anderson, Baylor, Brazos, Cameron, Childress, Dallas, Erath, Galveston, Hays, Hidalgo, Kerr, Knox, Leon, Lubbock, Robertson, Travis, Wichita

Locality.

Holmes Pecan Orchard

Time of activity.

Male (February, April - May, October - November, November 12-December 15); female (February - May, July - November)

Habitat.

(objects: on croton cage); (orchard: pecan); (plants: Indian paintbrush); (soil/woodland: Juniperus managed plot, mesquite, post oak woods [%: 75], sandy area, under bark, under bark associated by many Loxosceles reclusa Gertsch and Mulaik, 1940, upland deciduous forest); (structures: in house, indoors, on house)

Method.

5 gallon bucket trap [mf]; cardboard band [mf]; flight intercept trap elevated [mf]; flight intercept trap on ground [m]; light trap; Lindgren funnel trap [m]; pitfall trap [f]; suction trap [mf]; sweeping [m]

Type.

California, Mariposa; Massachusetts, Boston; Illinois, Peoria; Georgia

Etymology.

Latin, changed color

Collection.

DMNS, JCC, MSU, TAMU