World Spider Catalog

Lycosidae Sundevall, 1833

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: according to Brignoli, 1983c: 432, "Guy (1966, 1969) has proposed many synonymies and has downgraded many genera to subgenus rank; as this author based his conclusions more on nomenclature than on the study of material (or even of the original descriptions)", Platnick (WSC 15.0) did not accept Guy's conclusions; the changes by Guy, 1966 are noted (except where more recent work has superseded them); Guy, 1969 is merely a literature compilation that reflects those changes and is not cited separately; several genera of Lycosidae have been found not to be monophyletic (Murphy et al., 2006). Piacentini & Ramírez, 2019: 233-237 confirm ten valid subfamilies of Lycosidae: Venoniinae Lehtinen & Hippa, 1979, Zoicinae Lehtinen & Hippa, 1979 (= Piratinae Zyuzin, 1993), Evippinae Zyuzin, 1985, Sosippinae Dondale, 1986 (= Hygrolycosinae He & Song, 1996), Artoriinae Framenau, 2007, Tricassinae Alderweireldt & Jocqué, 1993 (= Arctosinae He & Song, 1996), Hippasinae Simon, 1898, Allocosinae Dondale, 1986, Pardosinae Simon, 1898 (= Wadicosinae Zyuzin, 1985) and Lycosinae Sundevall, 1833; the family is not monophyletic per Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 518, f. 17-18.

Gen. Erranticosa Ballarin & Marusik, 2026 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06462

type Lycosa coelestis L. Koch, 1878; gender feminine

In synonymy:

Erranticosa auribrachialis Schenkel, 1936 = Erranticosa coelestis (L. Koch, 1878) (Yu & Song, 1988c: 117)

Erranticosa sepia (Dönitz & Strand, 1906, T from Geolycosa) = Erranticosa coelestis (L. Koch, 1878) (Yaginuma, 1986a: 161)

Erranticosa subcoelestis (Fox, 1935, T from Foxicosa) = Erranticosa coelestis (L. Koch, 1878) (Chen & Gao, 1990: 124)

Erranticosa coelestis (L. Koch, 1878) | | China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:018221 TYPE SPECIES

Lycosa coelestis L. Koch, 1878c: 772, pl. 16, f. 35-36 (Dmf) Original description

Tarentula coelestis Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 321, pl. 13, f. 325 (mf)

Tarentula sepia Dönitz & Strand in Bösenberg & Strand, 1906: 391, pl. 8, f. 108 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064799]

Lycosa auribrachialis Schenkel, 1936b: 194, f. 64 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064798]

Geolycosa sepia Roewer, 1955c: 241

Hogna auribrachialis Roewer, 1955c: 247

Hogna coelestis Roewer, 1955c: 248

Lycosa coelestis Yaginuma, 1960: 83, f. 75.1 (mf, T from Hogna)

Lycosa coelestis Yaginuma, 1971: 83, f. 75.1 (f)

Lycosa auribrachialis Song et al., 1978: 2, f. 2A-C (mf, T from Hogna)

Lycosa auribrachialis Zhang & Zhu, 1982: 66, f. 2a, c (mf)

Lycosa coelestis Hu, 1984: 223, f. 232.1-3 (mf)

Lycosa coelestis Yaginuma, 1986a: 161, f. 89.2 (mf, S of Geolycosa sepia)

Lycosa auribrachialis Song, 1987: 224, f. 182 (mf)

Lycosa coelestis Paik, 1988b: 116, text-f. 1-2 (f)

Lycosa auribrachialis Paik, 1988b: 114, f. 1-6 (f)

Lycosa coelestis Yu & Song, 1988c: 117 (S of Lycosa auribrachialis)

Lycosa coelestis Chikuni, 1989b: 109, f. 4 (mf)

Lycosa coelestis Chen & Gao, 1990: 124, f. 153a-b (mf, S of Foxicosa subcoelestis; revalidated by Ballarin et al., 2026b: 13, see Trochosa subcoelestis)

Lycosa coelestis Tanaka, 1990a: 195, f. 1-4 (mf)

Lycosa coelestis Chen & Zhang, 1991: 209, f. 212.1-2 (mf)

Lycosa coelestis Zhao, 1993: 74, f. 31a-c (mf)

Lycosa coelestis Zhao, 1995: 793, f. 367a-c (mf)

Lycosa coelestis Yin et al., 1997c: 120, f. 55a-h (mf)

Lycosa coelestis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 321, f. 191G, L (mf)

Lycosa coelestis Namkung, 2002: 323, f. 20.17a-b (mf)

Lycosa coelestis Kim & Cho, 2002: 206, f. 439-444 (mf)

Lycosa coelestis Namkung, 2003: 325, f. 20.17a-b (mf)

Lycosa coelestis Yoo, Park & Kim, 2007: 25, f. 3-7 (m)

Lycosa coelestis Tanaka, 2009: 234, f. 71-72 (mf)

Lycosa coelestis Zhu & Zhang, 2011: 264, f. 190A-D (mf)

Lycosa coelestis Yin et al., 2012: 813, f. 407a-h (mf)

Lycosa coelestis Dong, 2018: 61, f. 9-4.A-G, pl. 14 (mf)

Erranticosa coelestis Ballarin et al., 2026b: 10, f. 1A-F, 2A-I, 3A-I, 4A-E, 5A-D (mf, T from Lycosa)

Erranticosa subcoelestis (Fox, 1935) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064800

Lycosa subcoelestis Fox, 1935: 455, f. 1 (Df) Original description

Tetrarctosa subcoelestis Roewer, 1955c: 296

Foxicosa subcoelestis Roewer, 1960d: 949 (T from Tetrarctosa)

Trochosa subcoelestis Ballarin et al., 2026b: 13, f. 6A-D, F-H (f, removed from S of Lycosa coelestis, rejecting Chen & Gao, 1990: 124, T from Lycosa)