Lycosa excusor L. Koch 1867
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Lycosa excusor L. Koch, 1867
Lycosa excusor L. Koch, 1867: 202 –205. Roewer 1955: 271; Rack 1961: 37; McKay 1973: 379; McKay 1985: 76. Lycosa excursor L. Koch. — Bonnet 1957: 2640 (misspelled).
Allocosa excusor (L. Koch).— Roewer 1959: 226.
Allocosa excursor (L. Koch).— Platnick 1993: 472 (misspelled).
Type data. Syntypes. 1 immature male, 1 immature female, “ Brinsbane ” (= Brisbane) [27°28’S, 153°01’E, Queensland, AUSTRALIA] (ZMB 3475) (examined).
Remarks. Koch (1867) described this species from a male and a female collected in Brisbane (Queensland), but did not elaborate if these were mature spiders or not. Rack (1961) reported the ‘holotype’ male of L. excusor missing in the ZMH, disregarding that the species was described on a syntype series. However, she listed two females (both immature, VWF pers. observation) from Brisbane [27°28’S, 153°01’E, Queensland] (ZMH, (Rack (1961) -catalogue 453; Museum Godeffroy 2263). Ignoring Rack’s (1961) inventory, McKay (1985) listed three syntypes of Lycosa excusor from the NHM. However, two of these specimens (1 male, 1 female, NHM 1919.9.18.335–336) were collected in Port McKay (Queensland) and cannot be syntypes. These are T. stella sp. nov. (VWF examined; see Appendix B). The other specimen (1 female, NHM 1919.9.18.334) was collected in Brisbane, however, is a mature female T. godeffroyi (VWF examined; see Appendix B). Two spiders, an immature male and an immature female, collected in Brisbane and lodged in the ZMB most closely match Koch’s (1867) description and are here considered the most likely syntype candidates for L. excusor.
Taking into account the uncertainty of any of the above listed spiders to be the types of L. excusor and the fact that the most likely candidates are immature (in combination with the fact that many species of Tasmanicosa are somatically very similar) it appears best to not arbitrarily choose one of these as lectotype, but consider the species, which cannot be identified based on Koch’s (1867) description alone, as nomen dubium.
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- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4213.1.1 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NHM, ZMB , ZMB , ZMH , ZMH, NHM
- Family
- Lycosidae
- Genus
- Lycosa
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- ZMB 3475
- Order
- Araneae
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- L. Koch
- Species
- excusor
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- syntype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lycosa excusor Koch, 1867 sec. Framenau & Baehr, 2016
References
- Koch, L. (1867) Beschreibungen neuer Arachniden und Myriapoden. Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-koniglichen zoologischbotanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 17, 173 - 250.
- Roewer, C. F. (1955) Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). Institut Royal de Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1 - 1751.
- Rack, G. (1961) Die Entomologischen Sammlungen des Zoologischen Staatsinstituts und Zoologischen Museums Hamburg. II. Teil. Chelicerata II: Araneae. Mitteilungen des Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museums und Instituts, 59, 1 - 60.
- McKay, R. J. (1973) The wolf spiders of Australia (Araneae: Lycosidae): 1. The bicolor group. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 16, 375 - 398.
- McKay, R. J. (1985) Lycosidae. In: Walton, D. W. (Ed), Zoological Catalogue of Australia 3. Arachnida, Mygalomorphae, Araneomorphae in Part, Pseudoscorpionida, Amblypygida, Palpigradi. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, pp. 73 - 88.
- Bonnet, P. (1957) Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse methodique de toute la litterature araneologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II (3 me partie: G - M). Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 1927 - 3026.
- Roewer, C. F. (1959) Araneae Lycosaeformia II. (Lycosidae). In: Institute des Parcs Nationaux du Congo et du Rwanda (Ed.), Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba - Mission G. F. de Witte, Vol. 55, pp. 1 - 518.
- Platnick, N. I. (1993) Advances in spider taxonomy 1988 - 1991. With synonymies and transfers 1940 - 1980. New York Entomological Society in association with the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 846 pp.