Allocosa obscuroides (Strand, 1906)

Female and male of Allocosa obscuroides [as illustrated in Koch (1877a)]. Cephalothorax length female 9.5 mm, male 8 mm.

Systematics and Taxonomy

Lycosa obscura L. Koch, 1877a: 954-956, plate 83, Figs 1, 1A, 2, 2A; preoccupied by Blackwall (1841).
Lycosa obscura L. Koch.- Hogg, 1905: 590.
Lycosa obscura L. Koch.- Rainbow, 1911: 270.
Tarentula obscuroides Strand, 1906a: 467 (replacement name).
Tarentula seuberti Strand, 1907m: 445 (provisional name only).
Allocosa obscuroides (Strand).- Roewer, 1955c: 205.
Allocosa obscuroides (Strand).- Rack, 1961: 38.
Lycosa obscuroides (Strand).- McKay, 1973: 379.
Lycosa obscuroides (Strand).- McKay, 1985b: 81.
Lycosa obscura L. Koch.- Moritz, 1992: 321.

Types

N.B.: Koch (1877a) lists syntypes from Sydney [33°53’S, 151°13’E, New South Wales], Bowen [20°00’S, 148°14’E, Queensland], Rockhampton [23°22'S, 150°30'E], Peak Downs [22°56'S, 148°05'E, Queensland], and Gayndah [25°37'S, 151°37'E, Queensland] in the Museum Godeffroy, a male from Sydney in the k. und k. Hofkabinet in Vienna, and a syntype without location in the Naturalienkabinet Stuttgart. He also mentions remarkably small specimens from Syndey and Bowen in the Museum Godeffroy.

Synypes:

3 females, Sydney [33°53’S, 151°13’E, New South Wales], Peak Downs [22°56'S, 148°05'E, Queensland], Gayndah [25°37'S, 151°37'E, Queensland], Museum Godeffroy Nr. 14576 (Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum, Universität Hamburg Rack (1961)-catalogue 470) (pers. observation).
1 female, 2 subadult females, Queensland [no exact locality] Museum Godeffroy (Museum für Naturkunde, Zentralinstitut der Humboldt Universität, Berlin: ZMB 3469) (Moritz, 1992) (pers. observation).
1 male, 2 females, Peak Downs [22°56'S, 148°05'E, Queensland], Koch collection (British Museum of Natural History, London, 1919.9.18.708-710) (pers. observation).
1 male, Sydney [33°53'S, 151°13'E, New South Wales], Koch collection (British Museum of Natural History, London, 1919.9.18.711) (pers. observation).
3 males, Bowen [20°00’S, 148°14’E, Queensland], Keyserling collection (British Museum of Natural History, London, 1890.7.1.2376-2378) (pers. observation).

Distribution

New South Wales, Queensland.

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