Species Ozicrypta reticulata (L. Koch, 1874)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Idiommata reticulata Koch, L. 1874. Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 1 473-576 pp. [474].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMH MGH 8094 ♂ adult (description of one ♀ adult from Port MacKay, probably of a different species, preceeds that of the ♂ from Sydney), Sydney, NSW (description of one adult from Port MacKay, probably of a different species, preceeds that of the from Sydney).
  Paralectotype(s) ZMH MGH 8094 ♀ adult (Port MacKay) (type staus doubtful), Port MacKay; ZMH MGH 8094 ♀ adult (type status doubtful (no locality)); ZMH MGH 8094 ♀ adult (no locality).

  Subsequent designation references:

  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 (listed the Sydney male specimen as 'Holotype', the female from Port MacKay as paratype, and did not mention the second female. Koch described the female and male as above, did not mention the second female. However, in 1958 [Raven] saw three specimens all with the MGH number as above and consisting of the male from Sydney, the female from Port MacKay and a female with no locality data. All three specimens were labelled 'TYPE'. Clearly one specimen should be selected as a lectotype, not holotype, and Rack's designation is corrected accordingly. There is also in the BMNH a female specimen 'Idiommata reticulata L.K.' from Bowen and part of the Koch collection (BMNH 19.9.18. 5693). It is also a possible syntype although not mentioned by Koch); Main, B.Y. 1985. Mygalomorphae. pp. 1-48 in Walton. D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 3. Mygalomorphae, Araneomorphae (part), Pseudoscorpionida, Amblypygi and Palpigradi. Canberra : Australian Government Printing Service 183 pp. [12].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Predator, terrestrial.

 

General References

Bonnet, P. 1957. Bibliographia araneorum: Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéoligique jusqu'en 1939. Toulouse : Les Frères Douladoure Vol. 2(3) 1925-3026 pp. [2288] (synonymy, listed under Idiommata)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Oct-2020		29-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)