Species Tasmanicosa leuckartii (Thorell, 1870)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tarentula leuckartii Thorell, T. 1870. Araneae nonnullae Novae Hollandiae, descriptae. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 27: 367-389 [388].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SSMNH ♀ adult, Echuca, VIC [36°08’S, 144°45’E].
  Paralectotype(s) SSMNH ♀, Echuca, VIC [36°08’S, 144°45’E].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Framenau, V.W. & Baehr, B.C. 2016. Revision of the Australian Union-Jack wolf spiders, genus Tasmanicosa (Araneae, Lycosidae, Lycosinae). Zootaxa 4213: 1-82 [31].
• Lycosa christopheri Simon, E. in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds) 1909. Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 2. [188].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMH ♀ adult, Fremantle, WA [32°03’S, 115°44’E].
  Paralectotype(s) ZMH 448 juv., Fremantle. WA [32°03’S, 115°44’E].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Framenau, V.W. & Baehr, B.C. 2016. Revision of the Australian Union-Jack wolf spiders, genus Tasmanicosa (Araneae, Lycosidae, Lycosinae). Zootaxa 4213: 1-82 [32].

  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.
• Lycosa molyneuxi Hogg, H.R. 1905. On some South Australian spiders of the family Lycosidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1905: 569-590 [575–577, figs 82, 82A–B].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA NN462 ♀, Gilbert River, Riverton, SA [34°10’S, 138°45’E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McKay, R.J. 1975. The Wolf Spiders of Australia (Araneae: Lycosidae): 6. The leuckartii group. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 17: 319-328 [320]
• Framenau, V.W. & Baehr, B.C. 2016. Revision of the Australian Union-Jack wolf spiders, genus Tasmanicosa (Araneae, Lycosidae, Lycosinae). Zootaxa 4213: 1-82 [31]

Generic Combinations

• Tasmanicosa leuckartii (Thorell, 1870). —
  Framenau, V.W. & Baehr, B.C. 2016. Revision of the Australian Union-Jack wolf spiders, genus Tasmanicosa (Araneae, Lycosidae, Lycosinae). Zootaxa 4213: 1-82 [31]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Fossorial, predator, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

From clay soils near streams.

General References

Framenau, V.W. & Baehr, B.C. 2016. Revision of the Australian Union-Jack wolf spiders, genus Tasmanicosa (Araneae, Lycosidae, Lycosinae). Zootaxa 4213: 1-82 [31, Figs 1E–F, 3A, 6D, 7G, 16, 17A–K]

Main, B.Y. 1976. Spiders. Sydney : Collins 296 pp. (biology)

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