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Banisteria, Number 36, page 45 A search of the swimming pool room revealed a © 2010 Virginia Natural History Society significant, established population of C. lyoni. We observed several mature females, a mature male, and THE TAILED CELLAR , many juveniles of various instars. The females and LYONI (BLACKWALL 1867), NEW TO VIRGINIA juveniles were in large, loosely organized sheet webs (ARANEAE: ). — A population of an that were distinct from the tangled webs of co-occurring unusual-looking pholcid spider was initially observed P. phalangioides. In the pool area, only three by one of us (TC) around the overhead door of an individuals of P. phalangioides were seen, suggesting indoor swimming pool in Kirby Athletic Center on the that in this local context, C. lyoni may have been out- campus of Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden- competing it. Sydney, Virginia. A single female was collected and Our new record of C. lyoni and those from other later identified as (Blackwall 1867). North American sites demonstrate that this can This species has not been recorded previously from colonize buildings and survive well away from the Virginia, and has been found in only in tropics. For our population, the high humidity and Texas, Florida, Louisiana (Edwards, 1993), and Kansas temperature maintained in the swimming pool (Guarisco & Cutler, 2003), making our collection the duplicated the wet tropical environment in the spider’s first for the northeastern United States as well. native land. However, we suspect that C. lyoni is much VIRGINIA: Prince Edward Co. Hampden-Sydney more widespread and more adaptable than current College, swimming pool facility, Kirby Athletic Center, records indicate. 22 October 2010, T. Clark leg. 1♂, 3♀. Specimens deposited in the Virginia Museum of Natural History, LITERATURE CITED Martinsville, Virginia. Our specimens of C. lyoni were taken in company Edwards, G. B. 1993. Crossopriza lyoni and with the ubiquitous pholcid phalangioides, but pallidus: cellar new to Florida were obviously distinct. is a pale (Araneae: Pholcidae). Entomology Circular No. 361, spider with an elongate abdomen, whereas C. lyoni is Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer darker grayish-brown, with a subglobular abdomen Services. 2 pp. (unpaginated). distinguished by a prominent dorsoposterior tubercle, which forms the “tail” referred to in the vernacular Guarisco, H., & B. Cutler. 2003. Crossopriza lyoni name. Illustrations and a detailed description of the (Araneae: Pholcidae), a synanthropic cellar spider spider may be found in Huber et al. (1999) and at newly discovered in Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas several websites. Like P. phalangioides, C. lyoni is a Academy of Science 106: 105-106. synanthrope that colonizes buildings. In addition to many localities in southeast (probably its native Huber, B. A., C. L. Deeleman-Reinhold, & A. Pérez- range), Huber et al. (1999) have recorded the species González. 1999. The spider Crossopriza from Argentina, , Brazil, , Mali, (Araneae, Pholcidae) in the . American Nicaragua, Nigeria, Paraguay, the , and Sri Museum Novitates 3262: 1-10. Lanka. Additional species of Crossopriza have been described from the New World, but according to Huber Strickman, D., R. Sithiprasana, & D. Southard. 1997. et al. (1999) all are synonyms of C. lyoni. Bionomics of the spider Crossopriza lyoni (Araneae, Strickman et al. (1997) studied individuals of this Pholcidae), a predator of dengue vectors in Thailand. species in Thailand and found them to be predators of Journal of 25: 194-201. the aegypti, a vector of . The spiders did not become hosts of the , and because they commonly occur in buildings, Travis Clark and William A. Shear including homes, the authors concluded that C. lyoni Department of Biology could be an important part of an integrated mosquito Hampden-Sydney College control strategy. Hampden-Sydney, Virginia 23943