Species Tasmanicosa godeffroyi (L. Koch, 1865)

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• Lycosa godeffroyi Koch, L. 1865. Beschreibungen neuer Arachniden und Myriapoden. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 15: 857-892 [867].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1890.7.1.2371 ♀ adult, Wollongong, Sydney, NSW, Peak Downs, QLD; BMNH 1919.9.18.396 ♀ adult, Wollongong, Sydney, NSW, Peak Downs, QLD; BMNH 1919.9.18.397 ♀ adult, Wollongong, Sydney, NSW, Peak Downs, QLD; ZMH MGH No. 300, Wollongong, Sydney, NSW, Peak Downs, QLD.

  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 bellatrix Koch, L. 1865. Beschreibungen neuer Arachniden und Myriapoden. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 15: 857-892 [866] [Publication date established from Koch, L. in Koch, L. & Keyserling, E. [1871–1883] 1865. Die Arachniden Australiens. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 2 [957] Note that this is listed as a valid species in current catalogues (under Hogna)].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1919.9.18.1187 ♀ adult (labelled Tarentula vecatrix -possibly could = bellatrix), Sydney, NSW.

  Secondary source:

   Koch, L. in Koch, L. & Keyserling, E. [1871–1883] 1865. Die Arachniden Australiens. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 2.
• Lycosa tasmanica Hogg, H.R. 1905. On some South Australian spiders of the family Lycosidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1905: 569-590 [571–573, figs 80, 80A–B].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA NN382 ♀, Table Cape, TAS [40°57’S, 145°43’E].
• Tarentula zualella Strand, E. 1907. Einige Spinnen aus Kamerun, Java und Australien. Jahrbuch des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 60: 177-219 [218-219].

  Type data:

   Holotype MWNH ♂, Sydney, NSW [33°53’S, 151°13’E].
• Lycosa woodwardi Simon, E. 1909. Araneae. Pt 2. pp. 155-212 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. 2(13). Jena : Fischer. [182-183].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMH ♀, Northampton, WA [28°20’S, 114°37’E]; ZMB 11100 ♀, 3 juv., Beverley, WA [32°06’S, 116°55’E]; MNHP 24358 ♀, Beverley, WA [32°06’S, 116°55’E]; WAM 11/4300 ♀, Dongara, WA [29°15’S, 114°55’E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Koch, L. & Keyserling, E. [1871–1873] 1873. Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 2. [957]
• Framenau, V.W. & Baehr, B.C. 2016. Revision of the Australian Union-Jack wolf spiders, genus Tasmanicosa (Araneae, Lycosidae, Lycosinae). Zootaxa 4213: 1-82 [15]

Generic Combinations

• Tasmanicosa godeffroyi (L. Koch, 1865). —
  Framenau, V.W. & Baehr, B.C. 2016. Revision of the Australian Union-Jack wolf spiders, genus Tasmanicosa (Araneae, Lycosidae, Lycosinae). Zootaxa 4213: 1-82 [14, Figs 1A, 2A–F, 3M, 4A, C, 5A–K, 6A, 7E, 8]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), 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), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Predator, terrestrial.

General References

Humphreys, W.F. 1974. Behavioural thermoregulation in a wolf spider. Nature (London) 251: 502-503

Humphreys, W.F. 1975. The food consumption of a wolf spider Geolycosa godeffroyi (Araneae: Lycosidae) in the Australian Capital Territory. Oecologia (Berlin) 18: 343-358

Humphreys, W.F. 1975. The influence of burrowing and thermoregulatory behaviour on the water relations of Geolycosa godeffroyi (Araneae: Lycosidae), an Australian wolf spider. Oecologia (Berlin) 21: 291-311

Humphreys, W.F. 1975. The respiration of Geolycosa godeffroyi (Araneae: Lycosidae) under conditions of constant and cyclic temperature. Physiological Zoology 48: 269-281

Humphreys, W.F. 1976. The population dynamics of an Australian wolf spider, Geolycosa godeffroyi (L. Koch, 1865)(Araneae: Lycosidae). Journal of Animal Ecology 45: 59-80

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

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