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Dahl, 1908: 361. Type species:
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Lycosidae" genus="Lycosa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lycosa nemoralis" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nemoralis">Lycosa nemoralis</taxonomicName>
Westring, 1861.
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="13">
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Lycosidae" genus="Saitocosa" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Saitocosa" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Saitocosa</taxonomicName>
<bibRefCitation author="Roewer, CF" journalOrPublisher="de Witte" pageId="11" pageNumber="22" pagination="519 - 1040" title="Araneae Lycosaeformia II (Lycosidae) (Fortsetzung und Schluss). Exploration du Parc national de Upemba Mission G. F." volume="55" year="1960">Roewer, 1960</bibRefCitation>
: 889. Type species:
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Lycosidae" genus="Tarentula" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Tarentula flavitibia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="flavitibia">Tarentula flavitibia</taxonomicName>
Saito, 1934.
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="13">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="13">
Members of this genus can be easily separated from otherEvippinae genera by the fewer number of ventral tibial spines on leg I (3pv &amp; 2rv, or 2-2v), carapace lacking transverse depression (present in
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Lycosidae" genus="Evippa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Evippa" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Evippa</taxonomicName>
Simon, 1882) and lack of pseudo-articulation of tarsi (Fig. 13).
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Lycosidae" genus="Xerolycosa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Xerolycosa" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Xerolycosa</taxonomicName>
can be differentiated by the shape of their copulatory organs. Females have a short droplet-shaped septum (about as long as wide), while in
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Lycosidae" genus="Evippa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Evippa" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Evippa</taxonomicName>
the septum is long and has a well developed septal stem. The male palp in
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Lycosidae" genus="Xerolycosa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Xerolycosa" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Xerolycosa</taxonomicName>
has a shorter course of the seminal duct and a shorter embolus, which is only partly hidden by the tegulum.
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="13">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="13">Medium-sized (5.5-7.5) dark coloured or spotty lycosids. Carapace spotty or dark coloured with lighter median band and two lateral stripes. Cephalic region not elevated. Chelicerae with 3 promarginal and 2 retromarginal teeth. Inner side of chelicerae with a kind of stridulatory file (Fig. 12). Femora with 3 dorsal spines, tibia and metatarsus with 2 dorsal spines, sometimes poorly developed, tibia and metatarsi with four or five ventral spines (3pv-2rv or 2-2v). Tarsi without transverse furrow.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="13">Male palp: cymbium with several apical spines; tegular apophysis shifted retrolaterally, with bill-like extension directed ventrally. Palea absent, embolus forming almost a circle, only partly hidden by tegulum. Epigyne: fovea (depression) absent, septum droplet-shaped, covered with hairs, almost as wide as high; stem short. Weakly sclerotized parts of epigyne are referred to here as windows (Wi).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="13">Comments.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="13">
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was synonymised with
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by
<bibRefCitation author="Yaginuma, T" journalOrPublisher="Hoikusha Publishing Company, Osaka" pageId="11" pageNumber="22" title="Spiders of Japan in colour (new ed.)." year="1986">Yaginuma (1986</bibRefCitation>
: p. 169) through synonymisation of the type species
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Lycosidae" genus="Tarentula" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Tarentula flavitibia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="flavitibia">Tarentula flavitibia</taxonomicName>
Saito, 1934 with
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Lycosidae" genus="Xerolycosa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Xerolycosa nemoralis" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nemoralis">Xerolycosa nemoralis.</taxonomicName>
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<bibRefCitation author="Dahl, F" journalOrPublisher="Die Suesswasserfauna Deutschlands" pageId="11" pageNumber="22" pagination="1 - 12" title="Araneae, Spinnen." volume="12" year="1908">Dahl (1908)</bibRefCitation>
described
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and placed only two species in this genus:
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Lycosidae" genus="Xerolycosa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Xerolycosa nemoralis" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nemoralis">Xerolycosa nemoralis</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Lycosidae" genus="Xerolycosa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Xerolycosa miniata" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="miniata">Xerolycosa miniata</taxonomicName>
. No type species was selected. It is not clear who selected
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as the type species. The first clear indication we found was in Roewer's catalogue (Roewer 1954: p. 309). The same species was indicated as the generotype in Roewer's revision of
<taxonomicName family="Lycosidae" lsidName="" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" rank="family">Lycosidae</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Roewer, CF" journalOrPublisher="de Witte" pageId="11" pageNumber="22" pagination="1 - 518" title="Araneae Lycosaeformia II (Lycosidae). Exploration du Parc national de Upemba Mission G. F." volume="55" year="1959">Roewer 1959</bibRefCitation>
: p. 893) and in Bonnet's catalogue (
<bibRefCitation author="Bonnet, P" journalOrPublisher="Toulouse" pageId="11" pageNumber="22" pagination="4231 - 5058" title="Bibliographia araneorum." volume="2" year="1959">1959</bibRefCitation>
: p. 4836).
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In Platnick's catalogue (
<bibRefCitation author="Platnick, NI" journalOrPublisher="IBPN FEB RAS, Magadan" pageId="11" pageNumber="22" title="The world spider catalog, version 11.5. American Museum of Natural History." url="http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html" year="2011">2011</bibRefCitation>
) five species are listed under
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Lycosidae" genus="Xerolycosa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Xerolycosa" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Xerolycosa</taxonomicName>
:
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Lycosidae" genus="Xerolycosa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Xerolycosa miniata" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="miniata">Xerolycosa miniata</taxonomicName>
(C.L. Koch, 1834),
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Lycosidae" genus="Xerolycosa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Xerolycosa nemoralis" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nemoralis">Xerolycosa nemoralis</taxonomicName>
(Westring, 1861),
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Lycosidae" genus="Xerolycosa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Xerolycosa pelengena" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pelengena">Xerolycosa pelengena</taxonomicName>
Roewer, 1960,
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Roewer, 1960 and
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Lycosidae" genus="Xerolycosa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Xerolycosa undulata" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="undulata">Xerolycosa undulata</taxonomicName>
Chen, Song et Kim, 1998. Roewer's species are known from Africa (Congo and Zanzibar). Judging from the figures,
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Lycosidae" genus="Xerolycosa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Xerolycosa pelengena" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pelengena">Xerolycosa pelengena</taxonomicName>
is a member of
<taxonomicName lsidName="" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" rank="tribe" tribe="Trochosini">Trochosini</taxonomicName>
, due to its carapace pattern (two dark longitudinal stripes within the median band, just behind the PLE) and epigyne (anchor-shaped septum, and
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hoods of the apical pocket) and seems to belong to
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Lycosidae" genus="Trochosa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Trochosa" order="Araneae" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Trochosa</taxonomicName>
. Therefore, we propose the new combination:
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Lycosidae" genus="Trochosa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Trochosa pelengena" order="Araneae" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pelengena">Trochosa pelengena</taxonomicName>
(Roewer, 1960) comb. n.
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, known from the male sex only, has a carapace and abdominal pattern very different from
<taxonomicName lsidName="" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Evippinae">Evippinae</taxonomicName>
species, and the palp has a distinctly different conformation, typical for the
<taxonomicName lsidName="" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Lycosinae">Lycosinae</taxonomicName>
(tegular apophysis stretching horizontally, tip of embolus visible and resting horizontally in a tegular depression). However, we refrain from suggesting a new combination because its generic affinities are currently unclear.
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="14">
Because of the burrowing behaviour in
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(Schenkel, 1963), believed to be absent in the other species, we first followed A.A. Zyuzin's (personal communication) opinion that it may belong to a separate genus. However, females of
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Lycosidae" genus="Xerolycosa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Xerolycosa nemoralis" order="Araneae" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nemoralis">Xerolycosa nemoralis</taxonomicName>
are known to excavate shallow depressions in soil (
<bibRefCitation author="Smola, V" journalOrPublisher="Ziva" pageId="11" pageNumber="22" pagination="31 - 33" title="Prekvapive chovani bezneho druhu slidaka." volume="1" year="2007">Smola 2007</bibRefCitation>
). In addition to behaviour,
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Lycosidae" genus="Xerolycosa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Xerolycosa mongolica" order="Araneae" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mongolica">Xerolycosa mongolica</taxonomicName>
has widely spaced posterior median eyes (one diameter apart) in contrast to the type species,
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Lycosidae" genus="Xerolycosa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Xerolycosa nemoralis" order="Araneae" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nemoralis">Xerolycosa nemoralis</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Lycosidae" genus="Xerolycosa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Xerolycosa miniata" order="Araneae" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="miniata">Xerolycosa miniata</taxonomicName>
(less than one diameter apart). Study of the male palp and the leg spination revealed no differences between
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Lycosidae" genus="Xerolycosa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Xerolycosa mongolica" order="Araneae" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mongolica">Xerolycosa mongolica</taxonomicName>
and the other species.
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