Cicurina varians Gertsch & Mulaik, 1940

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 107-110

Cicurina varians Gertsch & Mulaik, 1940

Cicurina varians Barr and Reddell 1967: 260; Broussard and Horner 2006: 253; Chamberlin and Ivie 1940: 57, mf, desc. (figs 42, 82, 93, 95); Cokendolpher 2004a: 33, f (figs 12, 21-27); Cokendolpher and Polyak 2004: 189; Cokendolpher and Reddell 2001b: 44; Gertsch 1992: 81, (chart 1); Jackman 1997: 162; Kunath and Smith 1968: 37-38, 44, 80, 103; McKenzie and Reddell 1964: 7, 15, 22, 47, 49; Paquin and Hedin 2004: 3255; Reddell 1964: 7, 11, 33-35, 38, 41; Reddell 1965: 169; Reddell 1967: 14, 23, 26-27, 50, 54; Reddell 1970: 404; Reddell 1973: 29, 56, 69, 79, 111, 115; Reddell 1994: 6; Reddell and Cokendolpher 2004: 82; Reddell and Finch 1963: 8-9, 21, 25, 28, 30, 40-41, 43, 48, 50, 53-54; Reddell and Smith 1965: 20, 33, 46; Richman et al. 2011a: 47; Roberts 2001: 49; Smith and Reddell 1971: 21, 24-25, 29, 31, 41; Vogel 1967: 9; Vogel 1970b: 2; White et al. 2009: 341; Yantis 2005: 196

Distribution.

Widespread in caves; Anderson, Bandera, Bee, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Brewster, Burnet, Cherokee, Childress, Comal, Concho, Coryell, Crockett, Culberson, Dallas, Edwards, Gillespie, Hardeman, Hays, Irion, Jeff Davis, Jim Wells, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, King, Kinney, Lampasas, Llano, Mason, Medina, Menard, Pecos, Potter, Presidio, Randall, Real, San Saba, Schleicher, Sutton, Terrell, Travis, Uvalde, Val Verde, Wheeler, Wichita, Williamson

Locality.

Camp Bullis, Chihuahuan desert, Dalquest Research Site, Fort Hood, Lost Maples State Park, Raven Ranch, Wildcat Bluff Nature Center

Caves.

Bandera (Emmett Wilson Cave, Fog Fissure, Fossil Cave, Garrison Hilltop Cave, Station “C” Cave No. 1); Bell ( Adam’s Gold Mine, Black Cave, Camp 6 Cave No. 1 [Fort Hood], Figure 8 Cave [Fort Hood], Fools Cave [Fort Hood], Gnarla Cave [Fort Hood], Hill’s Cave, Jagged Walls Cave [Fort Hood], Moffatt Pit Cave [Fort Hood], Nolan Creek Cave [Fort Hood], Price Pit Cave [Fort Hood], Root Sink [Fort Hood], Rugger’s Rift Cave, Sledgehammer Cave [Fort Hood], Sparta Cave [Fort Hood], Streak Cave [Fort Hood], Talking Crows Cave [Fort Hood], Tres Dedos Cave [Fort Hood], Valentine Cave [Fort Hood], Viper Den Cave [Fort Hood]); Bexar (Assassin Cave, B-52 Cave [Camp Bullis], Banzai Mud Dauber Cave [Camp Bullis], Bear Cave, Black Cat Cave, Boneyard Pit [Camp Bullis], Breached Dam Cave, Bunny Hole [Camp Bullis], Caracol Creek Coon Cave, Constant Sorrow Cave, Cross the Creek Cave [Camp Bullis], Dangerfield Cave [Camp Bullis], Dirtwater Cave, Dogleg Cave [Camp Bullis], Eagles Nest Cave [Camp Bullis], Friesenhahn Cave, Glinn’s Gloat Hole [Camp Bullis], Goat Cave [Government Canyon State Natural Area], Government Canyon Bat Cave [Government Canyon State Natural Area], Han’s Grotto, Headquarters Cave [Camp Bullis], Hector’s Hole [Camp Bullis], Hilger Hole [Camp Bullis], Hills and Dales Pit, Hitzfelder’s Bone Hole [=Hitzfelder Cave], Hold Me Back Cave [Camp Bullis], Hornet’s Last Laugh Pit, Isocow Cave [Camp Bullis], Isopit, Kamikazi Cricket Cave, Lone Gunman Pit [Camp Bullis], Low Priority Cave [Camp Bullis], MARS Shaft [Camp Bullis], Madla’s Cave, Mattke Cave, Max and Roberts Cave, Niche Cave, One Formation Cave [Government Canyon State Natural Area], Peace Pipe Cave, Platypus Pit [Camp Bullis], Porcupine Parlor Cave, Raging Cajun Cave [= Rajin’ Cajun Cave], Robber Baron Cave, Robbers Cave, Root Canal Cave [Camp Bullis], Some Monk Chanted Evening Cave, Stevens Ranch Cave No. 1, Stone Oak Parkway Pit, Strange Little Cave [Camp Bullis], Sunless City Cave, Tall Tales Cave, Twin Pits, Up the Creek Cave [Camp Bullis], Vera Cruz Shaft [Camp Bullis], Well Done Cave, Winston’s Cave [Camp Bullis], Wurzbach Bat Cave); Blanco (Davis Blowout Cave, Llewellyn Cave, T Cave); Brewster (O.T.L. Cave, Split Tank Cave); Burnet (Beaver Creek Bat Cave, Crossing Cave, Duncan’s Flea Cave, Fenceline Sink, Longhorn Caverns, Marble Falls Cave No. 3, Persimon Sink, Pie Cave, Porcupine Cave, Shin Oak Sink, Simon Says Sink No. 2, Simons 1174 Sink, Simons Rattlesnake Well, Simons Squeeze-Down Pit, Simons Squirm-Around Cave, Snake Pit Sink, Snelling’s Cave, Tree Ladder Sink, Wagon Trail Cave); Childress (Black Hand Cave, Buzzard Wall Cave); Comal (Bear Creek Cave, Bracken Bat Cave, Brehmmer-Heidrich Cave, Camp Bullis Cave No. 3, Coreth Bat Cave, Deepwater Cave, Ebert Cave, Fischer Cave, Hitzfielder’s Cave, Kappelman Cave, Kappelman Salamander Cave, Klar’s Cave, Lewis Cave, Little Gem Cave, Natural Bridge Caverns, Startzville Bat Cave, Washington Cave, Wyley’s Cave); Coryell (Brokeback Cave [Fort Hood], Chigiouxs’ Cave [Fort Hood], Copperhead Cave No. 2 [Fort Hood], Diamond Cave, Egypt Cave [Fort Hood], Gann Cave [Fort Hood], Mixmaster Cave [Fort Hood], Oxygen Bottle Cave, Rocket River Cave System (Double Tree Cave, Rocket River Cave) [Fort Hood], Rocket River Cave System [Fort Hood], Runoff Cave [Fort Hood], Saltpeter Cave [Fort Hood], Shell Mountain Bat Cave [Fort Hood], Tippit Cave [Fort Hood]); Crockett (Dudley Cave, Ketchum Cave); Culberson (Decent Cave, East Mill Cave); Edwards (Deep Cave, Devil’s Sinkhole, Dunbar Cave, Hughes Cave, Jacoby Cave, Punkin Cave, 3-Bounce Pit); Gillespie (Cave Creek Mosquito Cave); Hardeman (Walkup Cave); Hays (Boggus Cave, Boyett’s Cave, Donaldson Cave, Ezell’s Cave, Halifax Bat Cave, Hunter Uncave, McCarty Cave, Morton’s Cave, Nance Bat Cave, Wimberly Bat Cave); Irion (Arden Cave); Jeff Davis (Bloys Camp Cave); Kendall (Cascade Caverns, Cave-Without-A-Name-Dead Man’s Cave System, Century Caverns, Cricket Cave, Forget-Me-Not Cave, Gertrude’s Unknown Cave, Kohl Ranch Cave No. 1, Pfeiffer Crawlway Cave, Schneider Ranch Cave, Schwarz Cave, Swaglet Cave); Kerr (East Trap Cave, Goat Trap Cave, Mingus Root Cave, Old Morris Cave, Secrest Cave, Seven Room Cave, Stowers Cave); Kimble (Fleming Bat Cave, Garter Snake Cave, The Hole, Live Dog Cave, Lizard Cave, Llewelyn Rose Cave, Top Dog Cave); King (River Styx Cave); Kinney (Bader Cave, Cricket Siphon Cave, Rattlesnake Cave, Webb Cave); Lampasas (Enough Cave); Llano ( Miller’s Cave); Mason (Kothmann Cave, Mill Creek Cavern); Medina (Coontop Tip, Haby Bat Cave, Koch Cave, Lutz Cave, Ney Cave, Valdina Farms Sinkhole, Weynand Cave); Menard (Celery Creek Cave, Kearney’s Dead Goat Cave, Neel Cave and Powell’s Cave); Pecos (Amazing Maze Cave); Real (Cave of the Lakes, Emmett Wilson Cave, Haby Cave, Orell Bat Cave, Ramsey Bat Cave, Section 6 Cave, Skeleton Cave, Tucker Hollow Cave); San Saba ( Cicurina Cave, Gorman Cave, Harrell’s Cave, Lemon’s Cave, Puberty Pit, Springdale Ranch Cave, Upper Cave, Whiteface Cave); Schleicher (Cave Y); Sutton (Felton Cave, Harrison Cave, Silky Cave); Terrell (Goode Cave, Longley Cave, Pasotex Pit, Wizard’s Well); Travis (Adobe Springs Cave, Airman’s Cave, Amber Cave, Arrow Cave, Bandit Cave, Beckett’s Cave, Bee Creek Cave, Beer Bottle Cave, Brew Pot Sink, Broken Arrow Cave, Cave Y, Cold Cave, Dead Dog Cave No. 1, Driskill Cave, Fossil Cave, Gallifer Cave, Goat Cave, Grove Sinks Cave, Hideout Cave, Hole in the Road, Ireland’s Cave, Jest John Cave, Ken Harrell Cave, Kretschmarr Fluted Sink, Kretschmarr Salamander Cave, Kretschmarr Sink, LaCrosse Cave, Lost Gold Cave, Lunsford’s Cave, McDonald Cave, McNeil Bat Cave, Maple Run Cave, Moss Pit, New Comanche Trail Cave, Night Sink, No Rent Cave, Northwoods Cave, Rolling Rock Cave, Schulze Cave, Spanish Wells, Stark’s North Mine, Stovepipe Cave, Three-Holer Cave, Tooth Cave, Twin Dig Pit, Wade Sink, Weldon Cave, Weldon West Cave, Whirlpool Cave); Uvalde (BFS Cave, Burial Cave, Carson Cave, Grape Hollow Cave, Indian Creek Cave [questionable], Maybe Stream Cave, Picture Cave No. 1, Rambie’s Cave, Sandtleben Cave, Tampke Ranch Cave, West Holler Cave); Val Verde (Arledge Bat Cave, Cave Hollow Cave, Centipede Cave, Emerald Sink, Fern Cave, H. T. Miers Cave, Langtry Lead Cave, Langtry Quarry Cave, Litter Barrel Cave, Oriente Milestone Molasses Bat Cave, Robertson Mill Dirt Cave, Twin Tree Cave); Wheeler (Small Mouth Cave); Williamson (Ballroom Cave No. 2 [questionable], Bat Well, Beck Bat Cave, Beck Horse Cave, Beck Ranch Cave, Beck’s Sewer Cave, Blue Wasp Cave, Bone Cave [questionable], Broken Knife Sink, Chinaberry Cave [questionable], Cobb Caverns, Coffin Cave, Core Barrel Cave, Cricket Cave, Dead Ash Cave, Desert Dune Cave, Elm Cave, Elm Bat Cave, Elm Water Cave, Fern Bluff Cave, Flint Wash Cave, Four-Corners Cave, Jug Cave, Life Station Cave, Lorfing’s Unseen Rattler Cave, Marigold Cave, Man-With-A-Spear Cave, McNeil Quarry Cave, Mosquito Cave, Muscle Sink, Pussy Cat Cave, Raccoon Cave, Ramsel’s Corral Cave, Rattlesnake Filled Cave, Steam Cave, Sunless City Cave, Susana Cave, Temples of Thor Cave, Terrell’s Cave, Texella Cave, The Chimney, Three-Mile Cave, Walsh Ranch Cave, Williams Cave, Wolf Cave, Wolf’s Rattlesnake Cave)

Time of activity.

Male (January - May, August - December); female (January - June, August - December)

Habitat.

(landscape features: cave); (nest/prey: bird nest); (soil/woodland: leaf litter, pine woods [%: 60])

Method.

5 gallon bucket trap [m]; berlese funnel; pitfall trap [mf]

Type.

Texas (female, Kerr Co., Raven Ranch, December 1939, D. & S. Mulaik, holotype)

Etymology.

Latin, spines vary from typical formula

Collection.

MSU, TAMU, TMM, TTU