Venonia micarioides (L. Koch, 1877)

Female and male of Venonia micarioides [as illustrated in Koch (1877a)]. Cephalothorax length female 2 mm, male 1.75 mm.

Systematics and Taxonomy

Aulonia micarioides L. Koch, 1877a: 961-963, plate 83, Figs 6, 6A, plate 84, Figs 1, 1A.
Artoria micarioides (L. Koch).- Simon, 1887b: 186.
Venonia micarioides (L. Koch).- Simon, 1898a: 344.
Venonia micarioides (L. Koch).- Rainbow, 1911: 275.
Venonia micarioides (L. Koch).- Roewer, 1955c: 307.
Venonia micarioides (L. Koch).- Rack, 1961: 13.
Venonia micarioides (L. Koch).- McKay, 1973: 378.
Venonia micarioides (L. Koch).- Lehtinen and Hippa, 1979: 9, Fig. 44.
Venonia micarioides (L. Koch).- McKay, 1985b: 87.
Venonia micarioides (L. Koch).- Platnick, 1998: 589.

Types

L. Koch (1877a) described this species from syntypes containing a male (collected in Bowen, Queensland) and a female collected in Port McKay (Queensland), both from the Museum Godeffroy. Rack (1961) 'designated' (?) a holotype female from this series, and also mentions a male 'paratypoid'. Lehtinen and Hippa (1979) list a 'lectotype female selected by Rack (1961) (...) listed as holotype) from a series of syntypes' and say 'original adult male presumably lost, its conspecifity probable'. I have recently discovered the male syntype from Bowen in the BMNH, therefore the type designation should read as follows:

Syntype female, Port McKay [Queensland], Museum Godeffroy 14624 (Zoologisches Staatsinstitut und Zoologisches Museum, Universität Hamburg, Rack (1961)-catalogue 85) (holotype by Rack 1961)(Lehtinen and Hippa, 1979) (pers. observation).
Syntypes, penultimate male and 1 immature, Bowen [20°00’S, 148°14’E, Queensland], Museum Godeffroy 14624 (Zoologisches Staatsinstitut und Zoologisches Museum, Universität Hamburg, Rack (1961)-catalogue 85) (male designated as ‘paratypoid’ by Rack 1961) (pers. observation).
Syntype male, Bowen [20°00’S, 148°14’E, Queensland] (British Museum of Natural History, BMNH 1919.9.18.1384) (pers. observation).

Identification

Female epigyne of lectotype Venonia micarioides [as illustrated in Lehtinen and Hippa (1979)].Cephalothorax length female 2.0 mm.

Distribution

Queensland (Lehtinen and Hippa, 1979).

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