Texas species timeline

Many scientific articles can be found at World Spider Catalog but they have to be read with the understanding of author at the time. For example, the original description of mercurialis won't have any comparative notes on the 4 species described subsequently. The range shown for sierra in 1959 is invalid because Barnes incorrectly synonymized atromedia and sura with it. Another problem is that specimens preserved in alcohol were used to write most of the early pattern and color descriptions and have limited value for identifying live spiders. The 7 species below include all that either have been reported in Texas or are in adjoining states and might be in Texas.

1885 Pardosa lapidicina; original description by Emerton, specimens from Massachusetts and Connecticut
1898 Pardosa sierra; original description by Banks, specimens from Baja California
1904 Pardosa mercurialis; original description by Montgomery, specimens from Austin, TX
1941 Pardosa sura; original description by Chamberin & Ivie, specimens from California
1955 Pardosa steva; original description by Lowrie & Gertsch, specimens from Wyoming
1959 Pardosa sura wrongly determined to be a synonym of sierra by Barnes
1959 Pardosa vadosa; original description by Barnes; specimens from Arizona
1959 Pardosa valens; original description by Barnes; specimens from Arizona
2010 Pardosa sura; restablished as a species by Correa-Ramirez, Jimenez, & Garcia

Pardosa sierra is almost certainly not in Texas
Pardosa sura is almost certainly in west Texas
Pardosa valens is likely in west Texas
Pardosa steva might be in west Texas
Pardosa atromedia, a California species, was also wrongly synomymized with sierra and later restablished as a species.

Posted on Ιούλιος 16, 2021 1053 ΠΜ by eaneubauer eaneubauer

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