Allocosa hasselti (L. Koch, 1877)

Female of Allocosa hasselti [as illustrated in Koch, 1877a]. Cephalothorax length 10 mm.

N.B. Karsch (1878c) described a male (and female) from the collection of the Zentralinstitut der Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, withouth illustrating them.

Systematics and Taxonomy

Lycosa hasseltii L. Koch, 1877a: 960-961, plate 83, Figs 5, 5A.
Lycosa hasseltii L. Koch.- Karsch, 1878c: 794.
Lycosa hasseltii L. Koch.- Rainbow, 1911: 268.
Allocosa hasseltii (L. Koch).- Roewer, 1955c: 206 (mispelled).
Allocosa hasseltii (L. Koch).- Rack, 1961: 37.
Lycosa hasseltii L. Koch.- McKay, 1973: 379.
Lycosa hasseltii L. Koch.- McKay, 1985: 78.
Lycosa hasselti L. Koch.- Moritz, 1992: 315.

Types

Syntypes:

1 female, Peak Downs [22°56'S, 148°05'E, Queensland) Museum Godeffroy Nr. 14556 (Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum, Universität Hamburg Rack (1961)-catalogue 459) (pers. observation).
1 immature female, Peak Downs [22°56'S, 148°05'E, Queensland), Koch collection (British Museum of Natural History, London, 1919.9.18.399) (pers. observation).
1 female, Peak Downs [22°56'S, 148°05'E, Queensland) Museum Godeffroy (Museum für Naturkunde, Zentralinstitut der Humboldt Universität, Berlin: ZMB 3467) (pers. observation). Listed as holotype by Moritz (1992).

Distribution

Only known from type locality, Peak Downs (Queensland). However, McKay (1973) also provides the locality 'South Australia'.

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