Wolf Spiders of Australia

Missing type specimens – listed by collection from which described

Bradley’s Collection

The Bradleys Collection could not be found in London, Hamburg or Berlin, where most of L. Koch's material is housed. Other inquiries also did not show any result to find this interesting collection (e.g. Museum Wroclaw; McLeay Musem, University of Sydney). Consequently, I consider all wolf spider types of the Bradley collection lost (Framenau, 2005a) .

Anoteropsis longipes L. Koch, 1878, female, ?Australia (no locality given)
Dingosa pruinosa (L. Koch, 1877), male, Sydney (New South Wales)
Geolycosa egena (L. Koch, 1877), female, Cape York (Queensland)
Pardosa serrata (L. Koch, 1877), male, female, Sydney (New South Wales)
Schizocosa berenice (L. Koch, 1877), female, no locality given
Trochosa candicans (L. Koch, 1877), ‘specimens’, Shelleys Flat and Bondi (New South Wales) (also male and female from Sydney in the K. u. K. Hofkabinett, Vienna)
Trochosa tristicula (L. Koch, 1877), female, Sydney (New South Wales)
Venatrix speciosa (L. Koch, 1877), male, Caigan (Queensland)

Museum of Natural History Wiesbaden (Germany)

Allocosa zuallela (Strand, 1907), male, Sydney (possibly synonymous with Lycosa godeffroyi L. Koch, 1865)

Königliches Naturalienkabinett Stuttgart (Germany)

Crocodilosa ramosa (L. Koch, 1877), immature female, no locality given

K.u.K Hofkabinett Vienna (Austria)

Trochosa candicans (L. Koch, 1877), male and female, Sydney (New South Wales)

Canterbury Museum New Zealand (Urquhart’s Types)

Urquhart’s types from the Canterbury Museum in New Zealand are considered lost.

Lycosa albopilata Urquhart, 1893, male and female, Tasmania (no exact locality)
Lycosa tasmanicola Roewer, 1960 (= L. festiva Urquhart, 1893), female, Tasmania (no exact locality)

Unknown

Orinocosa stirlingae (Hogg, 1905), male and female, Gilbert River, Riverton (South Australia). All other types of the species described by Hogg (1905) are lodged at the South Australian Museum.

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