Species Artoria berenice (L. Koch, 1877)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lycosa berenice Koch, L. in Koch, L. & Keyserling, E. [1871–1883] 1877. Die Arachniden Australiens. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 2. [937 pl. 81 fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀ adult, unknown locality
  Comment: Bradley collection, considered lost.
• Pardosa versicolor Koch, L. in Koch, L. & Keyserling, E. [1871–1883] 1877. Die Arachniden Australiens. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 2. [966A pl. 84 figs 4-5].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♀ ♂ adult, Sydney, NSW
  Comment: Bradley collection, considered lost.
• Lycosa naevia Koch, L. in Koch, L. & Keyserling, E. [1871–1883] 1878. Die Arachniden Australiens. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 2. [978 pl. 85 fig. 5] [junior homonym of Lycosa naevia L. Koch, 1875].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH MGH No. 14560 ♀ adult, Sydney, NSW.

  Secondary source:

   Rack, V. 1961. Die entomologischen Sammlungen des Zoologischen Staatsinstituts und Zoologischen Museums Hamburg II. Chelicerata II: Araneae. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 59: 1-60.
• Tarentula naeviella Roewer, C.F. 1951. Neue Namen einiger Araneen-Arten. Abhandlungen Herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein zu Bremen 32: 437-456 [442] [replacement name].
• Lycosa ambrymiana Berland, L. 1938. Araignées des Nouvelles Hébrides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 107: 121-190 [184-185 figs 153-156].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♀, Vanuatu: Mont Marum, Ambrym [16°15′S 168°07′E].
  Paratype(s) MNHP ♂, data as holotype
  Comment: from secondary source: Framenau (2005).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Framenau, V.W. 2005. The wolf spider genus Artoria Thorell in Australia: new synonymies and generic transfers (Araneae, Lycosidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 22: 265-292 [272] (transfer from Schizocosa; synonymy of P. versicolor, L. naevia, L. ambrymiana)

 

Generic Combinations

• Lycosa berenice L. Koch, 1877. —
  McKay, R.J. 1985. Araneomorphae. In, Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 3. Mygalomorphae, Araneomorphae (part), Pseudoscorpionida, Amblypygi and Palpigradi. Canberra : Australian Government Printing Service Vol. 3 183 pp. [75]
• Artoria berenice (L. Koch, 1877). —
  Framenau, V.W. 2005. The wolf spider genus Artoria Thorell in Australia: new synonymies and generic transfers (Araneae, Lycosidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 22: 265-292 [272-273 fig 3]
• Avicosa berenice (L. Koch, 1877). —
  Roewer, C.F. 1955. Katalog der Araneen von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. Bruxelles Vol. 2 1751 pp. [236]
• Schizocosa berenice (L. Koch, 1877). —
  McKay, R.J. 1973. The Wolf Spiders of Australia (Araneae: Lycosidae): 1. The bicolor group. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16: 375-398 [381]
• Lycosa naeviella (Roewer, 1951). —
  McKay, R.J. 1985. Araneomorphae. In, Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 3. Mygalomorphae, Araneomorphae (part), Pseudoscorpionida, Amblypygi and Palpigradi. Canberra : Australian Government Printing Service Vol. 3 183 pp. [80]
• Tarentula naeviella (Roewer, 1951) [replacement name for L. naevia]. —
  Roewer, C.F. 1951. Neue Namen einiger Araneen-Arten. Abhandlungen Herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein zu Bremen 32: 437-456 [442]
• Hogna naeviella (Roewer, 1951). —
  Roewer, C.F. 1955. Katalog der Araneen von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. Bruxelles Vol. 2 1751 pp. [253]
  Rack, V. 1961. Die entomologischen Sammlungen des Zoologischen Staatsinstituts und Zoologischen Museums Hamburg II. Chelicerata II: Araneae. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 59: 1-60 [38]
• Pardosa versicolor L. Koch, 1877. —
  McKay, R.J. 1985. Araneomorphae. In, Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 3. Mygalomorphae, Araneomorphae (part), Pseudoscorpionida, Amblypygi and Palpigradi. Canberra : Australian Government Printing Service Vol. 3 183 pp. [85]
• Artoria versicolor (L. Koch, 1877). —
  Framenau, V.W. 2002. Review of the wolf spider genus Artoria Thorell (Araneae: Lycosidae). Invertebrate Systematics 16: 209-235 [230 fig 27A-F] (transferred from Pardosa)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern Australia, New Caledonia and Vanuatu

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Predator, terrestrial.

 

General References

Framenau, V.W. & Baehr, B.C. 2018. The wolf spider genus Artoria in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Australia (Araneae, Lycosidae, Artoriinae). Evolutionary Systematics 2 2018: 169-241 [183, Figs 10C, D, G, H, 11 A–H, 12, 46H]

McKay, R.J. 1985. Araneomorphae. In, Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 3. Mygalomorphae, Araneomorphae (part), Pseudoscorpionida, Amblypygi and Palpigradi. Canberra : Australian Government Printing Service Vol. 3 183 pp.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Feb-2020	LYCOSIDAE Sundevall, 1833	18-Dec-2019	MODIFIED	Lyn Randall
15-Oct-2020		20-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020		26-Jul-2011	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020		13-Apr-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)