Tetralycosa oraria (L. Koch, 1876)

Male and female of Tetralycosa oraria [as illustrated in Koch, 1876a]. Cephalothorax length male 4 mm, female 5 mm.

Female and male of Teralycosa oraria [as illustrated as Lycosa candicans in Koch (1877a)]. Cephalothorax length female 5.5 mm, male 5.5 mm.

Female epigyne of Tetralycosa oraria (as illustrated as Lycosa sibyllina in Simon (1909d)].

Systematics and Taxonomy

Lycosa oraria L. Koch, 1876a: 883-886, plate 76, Figs 2, 2A, 3, 3A.
Lycosa oraria L. Koch.- Simon, 1909d: 188.
Lycosa candicans L. Koch 1877a: 888-890, plate 76, Figs. 5, 5a, 6, 6a-b (new synonymy in Framenau, Gotch & Austin, in press).
Lycosa sibyllina Simon, 1909d: 188-189. Fig. 7 (new synonymy in McKay, 1979e).
Lycosa meracula Simon 1909: 190-191 (new synonymy in Framenau, Gotch & Austin, in press).
Lycosa candicans L. Koch.- Rainbow, 1911: 266.
Lycosa oraria L. Koch.- Rainbow, 1911: 270.
Lycosa meracula Simon.- Rainbow, 1911: 270.
Lycosa sibyllina Simon.- Rainbow, 1911: 272.
Lycosa candicans L. Koch.- Hickman, 1950: 5.
Crocodilosa oraria (L. Koch).- Roewer, 1955c: 238.
Hogna sibyllina (Simon).- Roewer, 1955c: 253.
Tetralycosa meracula (Simon).- Roewer, 1955c: 296.
Trochosula candicans (L. Koch).- Roewer, 1955c: 304.
Lycosa candicans L. Koch.- Bonnet, 1957: 2637.
Lycosa oraria L. Koch.- Bonnet, 1957: 2656.
Lycosa sibyllina Simon.- Bonnet, 1957: 2664.
Trochosomma oraria (L. Koch).- Roewer, 1960d: 847.
Tetralycosa meracula (Simon).- Roewer, 1960d: 949.
Trochosomma oraria (L. Koch).- Roewer, 1961a: 14.
Tetralycosa meracula (Simon).- Rack 1961: 38.
Lycosa sibyllina Simon.- McKay, 1973: 379.
Ocyale oraria (L. Koch).- McKay, 1973: 380.
Lycorma meracula (Simon).- McKay, 1973: 380.
Trochosa candicans (L. Koch).- McKay, 1973: 381.
not Lycosa meracula sensu McKay 1979d: 264, Figs. 9a-k (misidentification; not L. meracula but an undescribed species).
Trochosa oraria (L. Koch).- McKay, 1979e: 279-282, Figs 1A-H.
Trochosa candicans (L. Koch).- McKay, 1979e: 293-294, Fig. 4E.
Lycosa meracula Simon.- McKay, 1985b: 80.
Trochosa candicans (L. Koch).- McKay, 1985b: 85.
Trochosa oraria (L. Koch).- McKay, 1985b: 86.
Lycosa meracula Simon.- Platnick, 1989: 372.
Trochosa candicans (L. Koch).- Platnick, 1989: 390.

Trochosa oraria (L. Koch).- Platnick, 1989: 391.
Lycosa meracula Simon.- Moritz, 1992: 320.
Lycosa sibyllina Simon.- Moritz, 1992: 325.
Trochosa oraria (L. Koch).- Platnick, 1993: 510.
Tetralycosa oraria (L. Koch).- Framenau, Gotch & Austin, in press: ##-##, Fig. 58.

Types

Syntypes of Lycosa oraria:

Unknown number of ♂and ♀, King Georg Sound, [35°02’S, 117°56’E, Western Australia], Bradley Collection (L. Koch, 1876). Considered lost (Framenau, 2005a).

Syntypes of Lycosa candicans:

Male and female, Sydney [33°53’S, 151°13’E, New South Wales] supposedly lodged at the 'k. k. Hofkabinett in Wien' (Vienna) (not present at the Natural History Museum Vienna J. Gruber, pers. communication).
'Specimens', Shelleys Flat (12 miles from Goulburn) and Bondi (Sydney) [33°53’S, 151°16’E, New South Wales] Bradleys Collection (considered lost (Framenau, 2005a).

Holotype of Lycosa sibyllina:

Female, Albany [35°01’S, 117°53’E, Western Australia] 13/22.viii. & 10.x.1905, W. Michaelsen, R. Hartmeyer, 'Hamburger südwest-australische Forschungsreise', Station 165 (ZMB 11102).

Syntypes of Lycosa meracula:

Male, Albany, [35°01’S, 117°53’E, Western Australia], 13/22.viii. & 10.x.1905, W. Michaelsen, R. Hartmeyer, 'Hamburger südwest-australische Forschungsreise', Station 165 (MHNP 24364).
Immature female, Denham [25°55’S, 113°32’E, Western Australia], 'Hamburger südwest-australische Forschungsreise', Station 65, 9 - 11 June 1905 (Museum für Naturkunde, Zentralinstitut der Humboldt Universität Berlin, ZMB 11085) (Moritz 1992).
Immature, Denham [25°55'S, 113°32'E, Western Australia] 'Hamburger südwest-australische Forschungsreise', Station 65, 9 – 11 June 1905 (Zoologisches Staatsinstitut und Zoologisches Museum, Universität Hamburg, Rack (1961)-catalogue 466). Rack (1961)-states ‘female (pullus) Paratypoid’, however, the specimen in Hamburg is an immature (pers. observation).
Juvenile, Denham [25°55’S, 113°32’E, Western Australia](Western Australian Museum, WAM 11/4303)(http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/nat-sci/terr-invert/typesin2.html).

(All three juvenile syntypes of L. meracula are not conspecific with the syntype male, but represent a different, undescribed species (Framenau et al. 2005).

Identification

Female (A-F) and male pedipalp (G-H) of Tetralycosa oraria [as illustrated in McKay (1979e)]. Cepahlothorax length females 4.2 - 6.8 mm, males 3.5 - 4.5 mm.

Distribution

Sandy beaches in southern Australia (south of 25°S), from Western Australia to New South Wales, including Tasmania (Framenau, Gotch & Austin, in press).

Biological Reference

Coastal sandy and pebble habitats (McKay, 1979e).

Remarks

Female (A-E, H-J) and male pedipalp (F, G) of an undescribed species that was redescribed by McKay (1979d) as Lycosa meracula. Cephalothorax length females 6.3 - 12.0 mm.

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