Lycosa leucophaeoides (Roewer, 1951)

Female of Lycosa leucophaeoides [as illustrated in Koch, 1877a]. Cephalothorax length 10.5 mm.

Systematics and Taxonomy

Lycosa leucophaea L. Koch, 1877a: 948-949, plate 82, Fig. 3, 3A (preoccupied by Blackwall, 1837).
Lycosa leucophaea (?) L. Koch.- Hogg, 1900: 77.
Lycosa leucophaea L. Koch.- Rainbow, 1911: 269.
Hogna leucophaeoides Roewer, 1951: 253 (replacement name).
Agalenoscosa leucophaeoides (Roewer).- Roewer, 1955c: 200.
Agalenocosa leucophaeoides (Roewer).- Rack, 1961: 38.
Agalenocosa leucophaeoides L. Koch.- McKay, 1973: 380.
Lycosa leucophaeoides (Roewer).- McKay, 1985b: 79-80.
Lycosa leucophaeoides (Roewer).- Platnick, 1989: 372.

Types

Holotype:

Female, Rockhampton [23°22'S, 150°30'E, Queensland], Museum Godeffroy (Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum, Universität Hamburg Rack (1961)-catalogue 465).

Distribution

Only known from type locality, Rockhampton (Queensland), however, Rainbow (1911) also lists 'New South Wales, Victoria and Central Australia', and McKay (1973) Queensland, Northern Territory and Victoria.

Biological References

'From bare soil' (McKay, 1985b).

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