Dictyna annexa Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 112-113

Dictyna annexa Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936

Dictyna annexa Agnew et al. 1985: 3; Bonnet 1956: 1426; Breene et al. 1993a: 169; Breene et al. 1993b: 647; Breene et al. 1993c: 14, 47, 53, mf, (figs 10A-B); Breene et al. 1994: 8; Calixto et al. 2013: 181; Chamberlin and Gertsch 1958: 92, mf, desc. (pl. 25, figs 7-9); Dean and Sterling 1987: 6; Gertsch and Mulaik 1936a: 6, m, desc. (fig. 8); Jackman 1997: 163; Roewer 1955: 1318; Vogel 1970b: 7; Young and Edwards 1990: 16

Dictyna idahoana Chamberlin & Ivie, 1933; Gertsch and Mulaik 1940: 331; Roewer 1955: 1321 [Texas records]

Dictyna anexa Gertsch & Mulaik, 1936; Knutson et al. 2010: 515

Distribution.

Widespread; Archer, Baylor, Brown, Cameron, Collingsworth, Comanche, Coryell, Erath, Frio, Hidalgo, Howard, Jim Wells, La Salle, Llano, Reagan, Runnels, Scurry, Starr, Travis, Wichita, Zapata

Locality.

Bill Haney Pecan Orchard, Lake Thomas

Time of activity.

Male (March - October); female (March - November)

Habitat.

(crops: cotton, peanuts, sugarcane, watermelon); (grass: grass); (orchard: citrus, pecan); (plants: miscellaneous vegetation, roadside vegetation, Baccharis ); (soil/woodland: juniper, saltcedar, post oak savanna with pasture, Hibiscus sp., Ulmus crassifolia ); (structures: near blacklight trap)

Method.

D-Vac suction [m]; fogging [mf]; pitfall trap [mf]; suction trap [m]; sweeping [mf]

Eggs/spiderlings.

Erath [7 spiderlings in eggsac] [TAMU]

Type.

Texas (male, Hidalgo Co., 5 miles W Edinburg, July 4, 1935, S. Mulaik, holotype, AMNH)

Etymology.

Latin, bind

Collection.

DMNS, MSU, TAMU