Wolf Spiders of Australia

Synonymies, replacement names, nomina dubia, non-Lycosidae, and non-Australian

(c) V. W. Framenau, Western Australian Museum

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Synonyms

• Artoria luwamata Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 = Artoria parvula Thorell, 1877 (Framenau, 2005a).
• Lycosa ambrymiana Berland, 1938 = Artoria berenice (L. Koch, 1877) (Framenau, 2005a).
• Lycosa caelenica Rainbow, 1917 = Venatrix arenaris (Hogg, 1905) (McKay, 1974a)
• Lycosa candicans L. Koch, 1877 = Tetralycosa oraria (L. Koch, 1876) (Framenau, Gotch and Austin, in press).
• Lycosa christopheri Simon, 1909 = Lycosa leuckarti (Thorell, 1870) (McKay, 1975b).
• Lycosa goyderi Hickman, 1944 = Venatrix konei (Berland, 1924) (Framenau, in press).
• Lycosa howensis McKay, 1979 = Venatrix konei (Berland, 1924) (Framenau, in press).
• Lycosa impedita Simon, 1909 = Trochosa expolita expedita (Simon, 1909) (McKay, 1979e).
• Lycosa mainae McKay, 1979 = Mainosa longipes (L. Koch, 1878) (Framenau, in press).
• Lycosa marcentior Simon, 1909 = Venatrix pullastra (Simon, 1909) (Framenau, in press).
• Lycosa mayama McKay, 1976 = Venatrix speciosa (L. Koch, 1877) (Framenau & Vink, 2001) .
• Lycosa meracula Simon, 1909 = Tetralycosa oraria (L. Koch, 1876) (Framenau, Gotch and Austin, in press).
• Lycosa naevia L. Koch, 1877 = Artoria berenice (L. Koch, 1877) (Framenau, 2005a).
• Lycosa neboissi McKay, 1976 = Artoria flavimanus (Simon, 1909) (Framenau, 2002).
• Lycosa percauta Simon, 1909 = Venatrix pullastra (Simon, 1909) (Framenau, in press).
• Lycosa phegeia Simon, 1909 = Trochosa tristicula phegeia (Simon, 1909) (McKay, 1979e).
• Lycosa propitia Simon, 1909 = Venatrix pullastra (Simon, 1909) (Framenau, in press).
• Lycosa pulveresparsa L. Koch, 1877 = Hogna crispipes (L. Koch, 1877) (Framenau, Gotch and Austin, in press).
• Lycosa segregis Simon, 1909 = Venatrix pullastra (Simon, 1909) (McKay, 1974a).
• Lycosa sibyllina Simon, 1909 = Trochosa oraria (L. Koch, 1876) (McKay, 1979e).
• Lycosa waitei Rainbow, 1917 = Hogna crispipes (L. Koch, 1877) (Framenau, Gotch and Austin, in press).
• Pardosa praevelox Simon, 1909 = Pardosa serrata (L. Koch, 1877) (McKay, 1979a).
• Pardosa versicolor L. Koch, 1877 = Artoria berenice (L. Koch, 1877) (Framenau, 2005).
• Tarentula laeta curticeps Strand, 1913 = Lycosa laeta L. Koch, 1877 (McKay, 1985b).
• Tarentula laeta protruda Strand, 1913 = Lycosa dimota Simon, 1909 (McKay, 1985b).
• Tarentula tanna Strand, 1913 = Hogna crispipes (L. Koch, 1877) (Framenau, Gotch and Austin, in press).
• Tarentula tongatabuensis Strand, 1911 = Hogna crispipes (L. Koch, 1877) (Framenau, Gotch and Austin, in press).
• Venator fuscus Hogg, 1900 = Venatrix funesta (C. L. Koch, 1847) (Framenau & Vink, 2001).
• Venatrix forsteri Framenau and Vink, 2001 = Venatrix ornatula (L. Koch, 1877) (Framenau, in press).

Replacement Names

• Lycosa festiva Urquhart, 1893 = Lycosa tasmanicola Roewer, 1960.
• Lycosa fletcheri Hickman, 1944 = Lycosa hickmani (Roewer, 1955).
• Lycosa leucophaea L. Koch, 1877 = Lycosa leucophaeoides (Roewer, 1951).
• Lycosa naevia (L. Koch, 1878) = Hogna naeviella (Roewer, 1951).
• Lycosa obscura (L. Koch, 1877) = Allocosa obscuroides (Strand, 1906).
• Tarentula seuberti Strand, 1907 = Allocosa obscuroides (Strand, 1906).
• Tarentula tasmanica Roewer, 1951 = Lycosa tasmanicola  Roewer, 1960.
• Lycosa strenua Rainbow, 1920 = Lycosa rainbowi (Roewer, 1951).

Nomina dubia

• Lycosa irrorata Walckenaer, 1837  ( Roewer, 1955c: 1561 'nicht zu deuten').
• Hogna albosparsa L. Koch, 1876:  (Framenau & Vink, 2001).
• Lycosa neptunus (Rainbow, 1896):  (Framenau, in press b).
• Lycosa spinipes (Rainbow, 1896):  (Framenau, in press b).
• Trabea australiensis L. Koch, 1877 (Framenau, 2002) (incerta sedis in Russel-Smith, 1982).
• Lycosa topaziopsis (Hogg, 1896) (Framenau & Baehr, 2007).

Not Lycosidae

• Lycosa habilis Hogg, 1905 = Dolomedes habilis (Hogg, 1905) (Pisauridae, not Lycosidae) (Hirst, 1988)

Listed as Australian by Roewer (1955c) or Platnick (2001), presumably different distribution

• Allocosa hostilis (L. Koch, 1877) (holotype from Fiji; Rack 1961).
• Arctosa aliusmodi (Karsch, 1880) (holotype from Hawaii; Moritz 1992, McKay, 1973).
• Dalmasicosa calvata (Karsch, 1880) (holotype from Hawaii; Moritz 1992, McKay, 1973) (nomen dubium in Platnick, 2001; Roth, 1995).
• Dalmasicosa virgata (Karsch, 1880) (holotype from Hawaii; Moritz 1992, McKay, 1973).
• Hogna bruta (Karsch, 1880) (holotype from Olinda, Hawaii; Moritz 1992, McKay, 1973).
• Hogna (bruta) filicum (Karsch, 1880) (holotype from Olinda, Hawaii; Moritz 1992, McKay, 1973).
• Lycosa hilaris (L. Koch, 1877), known only from New Zealand  (C. J. Vink, pers. comm.).
• Lycosa inornata (L. Koch, 1877) (listed in Hogg, 1900 and  Rainbow, 1911) = Lycosa samoana (Roewer, 1951) (from Samoa, Platnick, 2001).
• Schizocosa vulpecula (L. Koch, 1865) (neotype? from Wallis Island, Southern Pacific; Rack 1961).
• Vesubia caduca (Karsch, 1880) (holotype from Olinda, Hawaii; Moritz 1992, McKay, 1973).

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