Species Venatrix lapidosa (McKay, 1974)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lycosa lapidosa McKay, R.J. 1974. The Wolf Spiders of Australia (Araneae: Lycosidae): 2. The arenaris group. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 17: 1-19 [13-15 figs 3a, b, e-j].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM W3865 ♀ adult, Black Duck Creek, near Junction View, SE QLD [27°48′S 152°11′E].
  Paratype(s) QM W3864 6♀ 5♂ adult 4 juv., locality as holotype
  Comment: additional male and female paratypes in QM, Brisbane; see McKay (1974) or Framenau & Vink (2001) for details.

Generic Combinations

• Lycosa lapidosa McKay, 1974. —
  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. [79]
• Venatrix lapidosa (McKay, 1974). —
  Framenau, V.W. & Vink, C.J. 2001. Revision of the wolf spider genus Venatrix Roewer (Araneae: Lycosidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15: 927-970 [956-957 figs 34A-E, 35] (transfer to Venatrix)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Predator, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

From under rocks of dry creek beds.

General References

Framenau, V.W. 1998. Life cycles of Lycosa lapidosa McKay, 1974, and Lycosa arenaris (Hogg, 1905), two riparian wolf spiders from south-eastern Australia. pp. 227-234 in Selden, P.A. (ed.). Proceedings of the 17th European Colloquium of Arachnology, Edinburgh 1997. Edinburgh. (biology)

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. [79]

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