Genus Venatrix Roewer, 1960

Museums

Regional Maps

• Venatrix Roewer, C.F. 1960. Araneae Lycosiformia 2. (Lycosidae). Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba Fasc. 519–1040. 55 pp. [745].

  Type species:

   Venator fusca Hogg, 1900 by original designation (= Venatrix funesta (C.L. Koch, 1847)).
• Venatrix Roewer, C.F. 1955. Katalog der Araneen von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. Bruxelles Vol. 2 1751 pp. [307] [nomen nudum].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [87] (placed Venatrix in synonymy under Venator Hogg 1900)
• Framenau, V.W. & Vink, C.J. 2001. Revision of the wolf spider genus Venatrix Roewer (Araneae: Lycosidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15: 927-970 (reinstated from synonomy under Venator)

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Tasmanian South East (TSE), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Victorian Midlands (VM) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Flinders (FLI), Wet Tropics (WT) ; ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Finke (FIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP) ; NSW, Qld, Vic: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU) ; NT, SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Yalgoo (YAL) ; WA: Warren (WAR)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

General References

Framenau, V.W. 2006. The wolf spider genus Venatrix Roewer: new species, synonymies and generic transfers (Araneae, Lycosidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 23(2): 145-166 (new species, taxonomic changes)

Framenau, V.W. & Vink, C.J. 2001. Revision of the wolf spider genus Venatrix Roewer (Araneae: Lycosidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15: 927-970

History of changes