Diahogna exculta (L. Koch, 1876)

Female of Diahogna exculta [as illustrated in Koch (1876a) as Trochosa exculta]. Cephalothorax length 6 mm.

Systematics and Taxonomy

Lycosa exculta L. Koch, 1877a: 881-883, plate 76, Figs 1, 5A-C.
Lycosa exculta L. Koch.- Rainbow, 1911: 267.
Allohogna exculta (L. Koch).- Roewer, 1955c: 212.
Allohogna exculta (L. Koch).- Rack, 1961: 37.
Trochosa exculta (L. Koch).- McKay, 1973: 381.
Trochosa exculta (L. Koch).- McKay, 1979e: 293, Fig. 4D.
Trochosa exculta (L. Koch).- McKay, 1985b: 86.
Trochosa exculta (L. Koch).- Platnick, 1989: 390.

Diahogna exculta (L. Koch).- Framenau, 2006: 283- figs 1b, 4, 5a-e, 286 .

Types

Lectotype:

Female, Sydney [33°53’S, 151°13’E, New South Wales], Koch collection (British Museum of Natural History, London BMNH1919.9.18.333) (pers. observation). Designated lectotype by McKay (1979e).

Paralectotypes (?):

Penultimate male, Gayndah [25°37’S, 151°37’E, Queensland] and female, Sydney [33°53’S, 151°13’E, New South Wales] (Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum, Universitaet Hamburg Rack (1961)-catalogue 452).

Identification

Epigyne of lectotype female of Trochosa exculta [as illustrated in McKay (1979e)]. Cephalothorax length 3.6 mm.

Male pedipal and female epigyne of Diahogna exculta [as illustrated in Framenau (2006)].

Distribution

Around Sydney (NSW) and in New Caledonia ((Framenau, 2006)

Biological Reference

'Called water spider (...); (...) because of its habitat preference, near water, and its ability to walk on the water surface.' (L. Koch, 1877a, from German).
Mascord (1970).

Startpage of ‘The Wolf Spiders (Araneae, Lycosidae) of Australia’

Homepage V. W. Framenau