Xysticus pellax O. P.-Cambridge, 1894

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 419-420

Xysticus pellax O. P.-Cambridge, 1894

Xysticus pellax Agnew et al. 1985: 5, 10; Cokendolpher et al. 1979: 732; Cokendolpher et al. 2008: 11, 56; Gertsch 1953: 421, m (figs 1-2); Jackman 1997: 170; Vogel 1970b: 27; Yantis 2005: 67, 199, 202; Young and Edwards 1990: 25 [ Dondale and Redner 1978b: 181, mf, desc. (figs 547-553)]

Distribution.

Brazos, Brewster, Brown, Burleson, Carson, Comanche, Coryell, Erath, Jeff Davis, Leon, Madison, Polk, Rains, Travis, Wichita

Locality.

Pantex Lake

Time of activity.

Male (July, September - November); female (April - May, July, September - November)

Habitat.

(crops: peanuts); (grass: grassland); (littoral: near playa); (plants: miscellaneous vegetation, Thelesperma sp.); (soil/woodland: ground, pine woods [%: 77], post oak savanna with pasture, post oak woods [%: 43, 48, 75, 76, 85, 93])

Method.

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

Type.

Mexico, Guerrero, Amula

Etymology.

Latin, deceitful

Collection.

DMNS, MSU, TAMU