Mainosa longipes (L. Koch, 1878)

Female of Mainosa longipes [as illustrated in Koch, 1878a]. Cephalothorax length 3.75 mm.

Penultimate male (A, B), epigyne of female holotype (C) and burrows (D, E) of Mainosa longipes [as illustrated in McKay (1979d)]. Cephalothorax length females <8.0 mm.

Systematics and Taxonomy

Anoteropsis longipes L. Koch, 1878a: 973-974, plate 85, figs 2, 2a.
Anoteropus longipes L. Koch.- Rainbow, 1911: 264 (mispelled, under Pisauridae).

Lycosa maini McKay, 1979d: 260-263, Figs 7a-e. (new synonymy in Framenau, in press)
Anoteropsis longipes L. Koch.- McKay, 1985b: 73.

Lycosa maini McKay.- McKay, 1985b: 80.
Lycosa mainae McKay.- Platnick, 1989: 372.
Mainosa longipes (L. Koch).- Framenau, in press: ###-###, figs 1-11.

Types

Holotype of Anoteropsis longipes:

No locality given in Koch (1878a), Bradleys Collection (considered lost Framenau (2005a)).

Holotype of Lycosa mainae:

Female, 88 km North of Murchison River [27°42’S, 114°09’E, Western Australia] (Western Australian Museum, WAM 69/115) (http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/nat-sci/terr-invert/typesin2.html).

Paratypes of Lycosa mainae:

1 female juvenile, Billabong Roadhouse [26°49’S, 114°36’E, Western Australia] (Queensland Museum, QM W4668) (McKay, 1979d).
1 juvenile, Menzies [29°41’S, 121°02’E, Western Australia] (Western Australian Museum, WAM 68/821) (McKay, 1979d).
2 penultimare females, Mount Magnet area [28°05’S, 117°52’E, Western Australia] (Western Australian Museum, WAM 69/1031, 69/1036) (McKay, 1979d).
no age/sex given, Murchison River, 19km North [27°42’S, 114°09’E, Western Australia] (Western Australian Museum, WAM 68/820) (McKay, 1979d).
no age/sex given, Norseman, 76km North [32°11’S, 121°46’E, Western Australia] (Western Australian Museum, WAM 69/105-6) (McKay, 1979d).
1 juvenile, Paynes Find [29°15’S, 117°41’E, Western Australia] (Western Australian Museum, WAM 68/819) (McKay, 1979d).
1 juvenile, Tarin Rock Reserve [33°06’S, 118°11’E, Western Australia] (Western Australian Museum, WAM 71/1859) (McKay, 1979d).
1 penultimate female, 1 penultimate male, Wubin [30°06’S, 116°37’E, Western Australia] (Western Australian Museum, WAM 68/817-8) (McKay, 1979d).

Distribution

Western and South Australia (Framenau (in press)).

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Last update: 28 October 2005.