Unraveling the monotypy of Vesubia Simon, 1909 and its relationships to Alopecosa Simon, 1885 (Araneae, Lycosidae) Author Piacentini, Luis Norberto División Aracnología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “ Bernardino Rivadavia ” CONICET, Avenida Angel Gallardo 470 - C 1405 DJR Buenos Aires (Argentina) piacentini@macn.gov.ar Author Marco, Yuri Marusik Institute for Biological Problems of the North FEB RAS, Portovaya str., 18, Magadan 685000 (Russia) & Altai State University, Lenina Pr., 61, Barnaul (Russia) & Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, 205 Nelson Mandela Drive, Park West Bloemfontein (South Africa) yurmar@mail.ru Author Isaia, Marco Laboratorio di Ecologia, Ecosistemi terrestri, Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi, Università di Torino, Via Accademia Albertina, 13, 10123 Torino (Italy) & National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo 90133 (Italy) isaia@unito.it text Zoosystema 2024 2024-10-01 46 24 617 629 https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2024v46a24.pdf journal article 304561 10.5252/zoosystema-2024v46a24 17ba5769-29c5-47f9-ba89-262a202fb056 1638-9387 13941216 7AB59C63-1DF0-43B2-B45A-301164A7BAA9 Hogna caduca Karsch, 1880 n. comb. ( Fig. 7 ) Lycosa caduca Karsch, 1880: 82 . Trochosa caduca – Roewer 1955: 301 . Vesubia caduca – Roewer 1960: 746. TYPE MATERIAL . — Holotype . Hawaii • ♀ ; Olinda on the island of Maui ; ZMB . REMARK Examining the type specimen of V. caduca ( Fig. 7 ) revealed that it lacks the diagnostic characters of Vesubia . The epigynum with a straight, inverted T-shaped septum, along with the anterior pockets, unquestionably place this species within the Lycosinae , although none of the existing genera can be assigned to it with confidence. Accordingly, we propose to transfer V. caduca to to the genus Hogna , as Hogna caduca n. comb. Hogna is a paraphyletic genus that has not been reviewed, but in which many species with genital characters similar to this species are placed ( Crespo et al. 2022 ). The World Spider Catalog (2024) indicates that this species is distributed in Polynesia, as indicated in the title of the Karsch’s (1880) publication, although material was collected in Olinda, on the Maui Island in Hawaii.