Species Dolomedes instabilis L. Koch, 1876

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dolomedes instabilis Koch, L. in Koch, L. & Keyserling, E. [1871–1883] 1876. Die Arachniden Australiens. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 2. [863 pl. 74 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀ adult, Caigan, near Mudgee, NSW.
• Dolomedes habilis Hogg, H.R. 1905. On some South Australian spiders of the family Lycosidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1905: 569-590 [588].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) SAMA 2♀ adult, Gilbert River, Riverina; whereabouts unknown 1 ♀, as other syntypes
  Comment: "Riverina" suggested to be a mistranscript of Riverton (SA), the area in which the collector lived (Hirst, 1988); the original labels do not give a state, NSW was given by Hogg, apparently based on Riverina, but there is no Gilbert River in that area.

  Type locality references:

  Hirst, D. 1988. Amended type localities of five species of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) described by H. R. Hogg in 1905. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 22: 77.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Raven, R.J. & Hebron, W. 2018. A review of the Water spider family Pisauridae in Australia and New Caledonia with descriptions of four new genera and 23 new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 60: 233-381 [247, Figs 11b, 13a–d, 14a–f. Map 1c]

 

Generic Combinations

• Lycosa habilis (Hogg, 1905). —
  Rainbow, W.J. 1911. A census of Australian Araneidae. Records of the Australian Museum 9(2): 107-319 [Vol 9 titled as published 1912-1913, but Part 2 published 2 Oct 1911] [268] (listed under Lycosa without acknowledgment of Hogg's original placement in Dolomedes)
• Dolomedes habilis Hogg, 1905. —
  Hirst, D. 1988. Amended type localities of five species of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) described by H. R. Hogg in 1905. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 22: 77 (reported rediscovery of two types; stated species belongs in Dolomedes)

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Nomadic, predator.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
31-Jul-2018	PISAURIDAE Simon, 1890	10-Jul-2018	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020		20-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020		30-May-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)