The Wolf Spiders (Araneae, Lycosidae) of Australia

Acknowledgements

© by Volker W. Framenau (Western Australian Museum)

Collegues and Friends

I am particularly grateful to those arachnologist gave permission to use scans of their illustrations in this webpage: Rolly McKay, Cor Vink, and Pekka Lehtinen.
I thank Norm Platnick for enlightenments on Carl F. Roewer's publication dates and L. Koch fascicules. His online catalogue of the Spiders of the World also provided the nomenclatural base of this work and an amazing resource for correct reference quotations.
Torbjörn Kronestedt, Theo Blick, and Janna Smit supplied a number of hard-to-get publications.
I especially thank Melissa Thomas who proof read this large piece of work and pointed out a fair number of mistakes.
... and Randolf Manderbach whodeserves a special mention for providing assistance in programming and designing this webpage.

Staff of Museums and Collections

I received great support during my taxonomic work from the curators and staff of a large number of institutions without who this catalogue would not have been possible (in no particular order, i.e. randomly!):

Lisa Joy Boutin (Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston), Liz Turner (Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery), Gavin Dally (Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery),Mike Gray and Graham Milledge (Australian Museum), Rob Raven, Barbara Baehr and Phil Lawless (Queensland Museum), Paul Hillyard and Janet Beccaloni (British Museum of Natural History), David Hirst (South Australian Museum), Mark Harvey and Julianne Waldock (Western Australian Museum), Ken Walker, Kate Sparcks, Catriona McPhee, Mark Darragh and Simon Hinkley (Museum Victoria), Hieronymus Dastych (Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum, Universität Hamburg), Pascal Leblanc and Gregoire Ghislain (Musée d'Histoire Naturelle, Troyes), Jason Dunlop and Shahin Nawai (Museum für Naturkunde, Zentralinstitut der Humboldt-Universität, Berlin), Margaret Humphrey (Macleay Museum, University of Sydney), Phil Sirvid (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington), Giuliano Doria (Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genove), Alberto Barrion and Jo Catindig (International Rice Research Institute, Manila), and Manfred Grasshoff and Egbert Korte (Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt). In addition, Paolo Tongiorgi and Giulio Gardini provided assistance in type loan of Artoria parvula.

Scientific Journals (for permission to use published material, mainly figures)

Two scientific journals, in particular, published papers on Australian wolf spider taxonomy. I am grateful for their permission to use scans of illustrations published in their journals:

Invertebrate Systematics , CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne (Camilla Myers)
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Brisbane (Peter Jell)