Colonus puerperus (Hentz, 1846)

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 299

Colonus puerperus (Hentz, 1846)

Colonus puerperus Bustamante et al. 2015: 187 [T]

Thiodina puerpera (Hentz, 1846); Agnew et al. 1985: 5, 11; Breene et al. 1993c: 24, 48, 64, mf (figs 40A-C); Brown 1974: 237; Carpenter 1972: 165; Dean et al. 1982: 256; Dean et al. 1988: 287; Hill 2012: 2 (mf, color pictures); Jackman 1997: 168; Jones 1936: 69; Knutson et al. 2010: 515; Liao et al. 1984: 411; Peckham and Peckham 1909: 449; Petrunkevitch 1911: 712; Rapp 1984: 9; Richman and Vetter 2004: 424, mf, desc. (figs 2-3, 7, 10, 13); Richman et al. 2011b: 76; Richman et al. 2012a: 75; Richman et al. 2012b: 75; Vogel 1970b: 20; Wolff 1985: 13; Young and Edwards 1990: 23

Thiodina purpurea Hentz, 1846; Woods and Harrel 1976: 44

Distribution.

Archer, Bell, Bexar, Brazos, Burleson, Burnet, Cameron, Colorado, Comal, Dallas, Denton, DeWitt, Dimmit, Erath, Fannin, Freestone, Galveston, Gillespie, Grayson, Hamilton, Hardeman, Harris, Hays, Hidalgo, Houston, Howard, Hunt, Jefferson, Jim Wells, Kenedy, Lampasas, Live Oak, Mills, Nacogdoches, Panola, Potter, Rains, Randall, Refugio, Robertson, San Patricio, Scurry, Shackelford, Tarrant, Travis, Uvalde, Walker, Webb, Wichita, Wilbarger, Wise [West Co., not in Texas]

Locality.

Adriance Pecan Orchard, Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Ellis Prison Unit, Frontera Audubon, Garner State Park, Lake Tawakoni State Park, Lake Thomas, Lake Wichita, Lick Creek Park, Medicine Mounds Ranch, Russell Farm, Sam Houston National Forest, Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Stubblefield Lake, Texas A&M University Rangeland Area

Time of activity.

Male (January - October, December); female (January - December)

Habitat.

(crops: cotton, peanuts, rice, sunflower); (grass: grass, grassland, pasture); (littoral: salt marsh area, sedge meadow); (nest/prey: mud dauber nest [mf]); (orchard: grapefruit, pecan); (plants: bush, herbs, milkweed, miscellaneous vegetation, roadside vegetation, vegetation, weed, white thistle, Baccharis , Dalea sp, Gaillardia sp.); (soil/woodland: field, juniper, log, post oak savanna, saltcedar, trees/shrubs, willow)

Method.

Beating [mf]; beating/sweeping [m]; boll weevil pheromone trap [mf]; D-Vac suction [mf]; pitfall trap [m]; sweeping [mf]

Type.

unknown

Etymology.

Latin, childbearing

Collection.

MCZ, MSU, NMSU, TAMU, WTAM