LYCOSIDAE Sundevall, 1833

Nombre común en ingles: Wolf spiders

Nombre común en castellano: Se desconoce

Familias similares:

Género tipo: Lycosa Latreille, 1804

Diagnosis: Small to very large araneomorph spiders; three tarsal claws; ecribellate; entelegyne; eyes in three rows (4:2:2); male palp almost always without retrolateral tibial apophysis; female carries egg-sac attached to spinnerets.

Caracteres descriptivos: Caparazón: longer than wide, narrower and higher in cephalic region; fovea elongated; carapace covered with dense setae. Esternón: oval, to scutiform. Ojos: eight; in three rows (4:2:2); all dark in colour; unequal in size; anterior row with four small eyes; second row with two large eyes and third row with two eyes of intermediate size situated on anterolateral surface of carapace; secondary eyes with grate-shaped tapetum. Quelíceros: strong, with toothed cheliceral furrow; condyle prominent. Piezas bucales: labium as wide as long, half the lengh of endites. Patas: three claws; legs usually with scopula and spines; trochanters notched. Abdomen: oval; covered with dense setae. Hileras: six; colulus absent; in females with a pair of major ampullate gland spigots and a pair of minor ampullate gland spigots on resp. anterior lateral and posterior median spinnerets; the secondary spigots are retained in connection with the attachment of the egg cocoon. Sistema respiratorio: two booklungs; one pair of tubular trachea; tracheal spiracle close to spinnerets. Genitalia: entelegyne; epigyne with well-sclerotized median septum, often in the shape of an inverted T; male; palp without tibial apophyses (except Allocosa tuberculipalpa, with large retrolateral tibial apophysis); embolus variable in size and insertion. Tamaño corporal: 3-45 mm. Hogna ingeus (Blackwall, 1857) is one of the largest Araneomorphae. Color: cryptic, ranging from dull yellowish brown to grey or almost black with broad band over cephalothorax; dorsum usually with pattern.

Estatus taxonómico: The lycosids form part of the superfamily Lycosoidea based on the specialized structure of the tapetum of the lateral and posterior eyes (Coddington & Levi, 1991; Coddington et al., 2004). Griswold (1993) discussed the phylogenetic arrangement of the Lycosoidea and found the Lycosidae to be sister to Trechaleidae with which they form the sister-group of the Pisauridae. The limits of subfamilies and genera within the lycosids are far from clear (Alderweireldt, 1991; Vink et al., 2002).

Distribución: mundial.

Estilo de vida: Most lycosids are free-living ground-dwelling hunters and are supposed to have coevolved with grasslands. Some live in burrow or make sheet webs provided with a funnel. Egg cocoons are carried, attached to the spinnerets, and spiderlings spend the first days or weeks of their existence on the abdomen of the mother.

Bibliografía:

  • Alderweireldt, M. 1991. A revision of the African representatives of the wolf spider genus Evippa Simon, 1882 (Araneae, Lycosidae) with notes on allied species and genera. J. nat. Hist. 25: 359-381.

  • Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.S. & Jocqué, R. 1997. African Spiders: An Identification Manual. Plant Protection Res. Inst. Handbook, no. 9, Pretoria, 392 pp.

  • Dondale, C.D. 2005a. Lycosidae. pp. 164-172 in Ubick, D., Paquin, P., Cushing, P.E. & Roth, V. (Eds) 2005. The Spiders of North America. An Identification Manual. American Arachnological Society.

  • Griswold, C.E. 1993. Investigations into the phylogeny of the lycosid spiders and their kin (Arachnida: Araneae: Lycosoidea). Smithson. Contrib. Zool. 539: 1-39.

  • Vink, C.J. 2002. Lycosidae (Arachnida: Araneae). Fauna of New Zealand 44: 1-94.

  • Vink, C.J., Mitchell, A.D. & Paterson, A.M. 2002. A Preliminary molecular analysis of phylogenetic relationships of Australasian wolf spider genera (Araneae, Lycosidae). J. Arachnol. 30: 227-237.

          18 géneros y 92 especies presentes en la Península Ibérica:

  • Allocosa Banks, 1900

                      - A. dufouri (Simon, 1876)
                      - A. fasciventris (Dufour, 1835)
  • Alopecosa Simon, 1885

                      - A. accentuata (Latreille, 1817)
                      - A. albofasciata (Brullé, 1832)
                      - A. alpicola (Simon, 1876)
                      - A. barbipes (Sundevall, 1833)
                      - A. cuneata (Clerck, 1757)
                      - A. cursor (Hahn, 1831)
                      - A. laciniosa (Simon, 1876)
                      - A. osellai Lugetti & Tongiorgi, 1969
                      - A. pulverulenta (Clerck, 1757)
                      - A. simoni (Thorell, 1872)
                      - A. sulzeri (Pavesi, 1873)
                      - A. trabalis (Clerck, 1757)
  • Alopecosella Roewer, 1960

                      - A. perpicax (L. Koch, 1882)
  • Arctosa Koch, C. L. 1847

                      - A. cinerea (Fabricius, 1777)
                      - A. excellens (Simon, 1876)
                      - A. figurata (Simon, 1876)
                      - A. fulvolineata (Lucas, 1846)
                      - A. lacustris (Simon, 1876)
                      - A. leopardus (Sundevall, 1833)
                      - A. letourneuxi (Simon, 1885)
                      - A. maculata (Hahn, 1822)
                      - A. misella (L. Koch, 1882)
                      - A. perita (Latreille, 1799)
                      - A. personata (L. Koch, 1872)
                      - A. similis Schenkel, 1938
                      - A. variana C. L. Koch, 1847
                      - A. villica (Lucas, 1846)
  • Aulonia C. L. Koch, 1847

                      - A. albimana (Walckenaer, 1805)
  • Donacosa Alderweireldt & Jocqué, 1991

                      - D. merlini Alderweireldt & Jocqué, 1991
  • Hogna Simon, 1885

                      - H. balearica (Thorell, 1873)
                      - H. ferox (Lucas, 1838)
                      - H. fraissei (L. Koch, 1882)
                      - H. hispanica (Walckenaer, 1837)
                      - H. insulana (L. Koch, 1882)
                      - H. radiata (Latreille, 1817)
  • Hygrolycosa Dahl, 1908

                      - H. rubrofasciata (Ohlert, 1865)
  • Lycosa Latreille, 1804

                      - L. ambigua Barrientos, 2004
                      - L. narbonensis Walckenaer, 1806
                      - L. tarantula (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Pardosa C. L. Koch, 1847

                      - P. agricola (Thorell, 1856)
                      - P. amentata (Clerck, 1757)
                      - P. bifasciata (C. L. Koch, 1834)
                      - P. blanda (C. L. Koch, 1833)
                      - P. cribrata Simon, 1876
                      - P. femoralis Simon, 1876
                      - P. gefsana Roewer, 1959
                      - P. hortensis (Thorell, 1872)
                      - P. italica Tongiorgi, 1966
                      - P. luctinosa Simon, 1876
                      - P. lugubris (Walckenaer, 1802)
                      - P. monticola (Clerck, 1757)
                      - P. morosa (L. Koch, 1870)
                      - P. nigriceps (Thorell, 1856)
                      - P. occidentalis Simon, 1881
                      - P. oreophila Simon, 1937
                      - P. paludicola (Clerck, 1757)
                      - P. palustris (Linnaeus, 1758)
                      - P. prativaga (L. Koch, 1870)
                      - P. proxima (C. L. Koch, 1847)
                      - P. pseudostrigillata Tongiorgi, 1966
                      - P. pullata (Clerck, 1757
                      - P. pyrenaica Kronestedt, 2007
                      - P. riparia (C. L. Koch, 1833)
                      - P. saltuaria (L. Koch, 1870)
                      - P. saturatior Simon, 1937
                      - P. tatarica (Thorell, 1875)
                      - P. tenuipes L. Koch, 1882
                      - P. torrentum Simon, 1876
                      - P. vittata (Keyserling, 1863)
                      - P. wagleri (Hahn, 1822)
  • Pirata Sundevall, 1833

                      - P. piraticus (Clerck, 1757)
                      - P. simplex (L. Koch, 1882)
                      - P. tenuitarsis Simon, 1876
                      - P. uliginosus (Thorell, 1856)
  • Piratula Roewer, 1960

                      - P. hygrophila (Thorell, 1872)
                      - P. latitans (Blackwall, 1841)
  • Pyrenocosa Marusik, Azarkina & Koponen, 2004

                      - P. pyrenaea (Simon, 1876)
                      - P. rupicola (Dufour, 1821)
                      - P. spinosa (Denis, 1938)
  • Trabea Simon, 1876

                      - T. cazorla Snazell, 1983
                      - T. paradoxa Simon, 1876
  • Trochosa C. L. Koch, 1847

                      - T. hispanica Simon, 1870
                      - T. ochracea (L. Koch, 1856)
                      - T. robusta (Simon, 1876)
                      - T. ruricola (De Geer, 1778)
                      - T. terricola Thorell, 1856
  • Trochosula Roewer, 1960

                      - T. conspersa (L. Koch, 1882)
  • Wadicosa Zyuzin, 1985

                      - W. fidelis (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872)
  • Xerolycosa Dahl, 1908

                      - X. miniata (C. L. Koch, 1834)
                      - X. nemoralis (Westring, 1861)
 
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