Loxosceles reclusa Gertsch & Mulaik, 1940

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 363

Loxosceles reclusa Gertsch & Mulaik, 1940

Loxosceles reclusa Agnew et al. 1985: 6; Brown 1974: 234; Cokendolpher and Reddell 2001b: 53; Cokendolpher et al. 1979: 729; Gertsch 1958b: 7, mf, desc., (figs 4-6, 9-10, 21-23, 91-93); Gertsch and Ennik 1983: 285, mf, desc. (figs 8-11, 16, 20-23, 36-41); Henderson 2007: 64, 78, 81, 85; Horner 1967: 6; Horner and Stewart 1967: 334; Jackman 1997: 34, desc., 168 (photo 7a); Kaston 1972: 87, desc. (fig. 199); Kaston 1978: 89, desc. (fig. 217); Reddell 1970: 406; Reddell and Cokendolpher 2004: 91; Roberts 2001: 48; Sandidge and Hopwood 2005: 101; Taber and Fleenor 2003: 233; Tugmon et al. 1990: 43; Vetter 2005: 514; Vetter 2008: 152; Vetter 2009: 519; Vetter 2015: 74-75, 78; Vogel 1970b: 21; Yantis 2005: 67, 197, 201

Loxosceles rufipes (Lucas, 1834); Jones 1936: 69 [Texas record]

Loxosceles reclusus Gertsch and Mulaik, 1940; Gertsch and Mulaik 1940: 317, mf, desc

Loxosceles reculsus Gertsch and Mulaik, 1940; Vogel 1967: 122

Distribution.

Widespread (not south or west Texas); Anderson, Archer, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Bowie, Brazos, Burnet, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Erath, Grayson, Hamilton, Harrison, Hill, Houston, Jack, Leon, Llano, Lubbock, McLennan, Montague, Palo Pinto, Polk, Potter, Robertson, Shelby, Tarrant, Throckmorton, Tom Green, Travis, Uvalde, Wichita, Wilson, Wise, Young

Locality.

Buescher State Park, Fort Hood, Holmes Pecan Orchard, Lick Creek Park, Texas A&M University Rangeland Area, Wildcat Bluff Nature Center

Caves.

Bell (Seven Cave [Fort Hood]); Bexar ( Roan’s Cave); Uvalde (Tampke Ranch Cave)

Time of activity.

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

Habitat.

(landscape features: cave); (objects: in stacks of wood or posts, outdoors under sacks, under [board, corrugated metal, rocks]); (soil/woodland: in decaying logs, pine woods [%: 69, 82, 88, 99], post oak woods [%: 77, 80, 82, 85, 90], under [bark, log], upland woods, woods); (structures: building, closet, corner of apartment, garages and closets of homes, in house, lumber yard, under miscellaneous rubbish in old barns and sheds, warehouse)

Method.

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

Type.

Texas (male, Travis Co., Austin, September 1909, no collector, holotype, AMNH)

Etymology.

Latin, hide

Collection.

DMNS, JCC, MCZ, MSU, TAMU, TMM