Agelenopsis spatula Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 21

Agelenopsis spatula Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935

Agelenopsis spatula Agnew et al. 1985: 4, 9; Ayoub et al. 2005: 45; Chamberlin and Ivie 1935b: 32, mf, desc. (fig. 109); Chamberlin and Ivie 1941: 596, mf, desc. (figs 6, 26, 32); Jackman 1997: 160; Roewer 1955: 43; Vogel 1970b: 2; Whitman-Zai et al. 2015: 21, mf, desc. (figs 13-14, 35, 50); Yantis 2005: 196; Young and Edwards 1990: 14

Agelena spathula (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935); Bonnet 1955: 201

Distribution.

Archer, Brazos, Briscoe, Clay, Dallam, Erath, Frio, Houston, Liberty, Roberts, Travis, Wichita, Williamson

Locality.

Caprock Canyons State Park, Lake Kickapoo

Time of activity.

Male (September - October); female (February, May, September - November)

Habitat.

(crops: peanuts); (grass: short grass); (littoral: rocks near water, under rock); (soil/woodland: on ground, pine woods [%: 88])

Method.

5 gallon bucket trap [f]; pitfall trap [mf]

Type.

Texas (male, Wichita Co., Wichita Falls, September 3, 1933, W. Ivie, holotype, AMNH)

Etymology.

Latin, spoon shaped palp

Collection.

DMNS, MCZ, MSU, TAMU