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Genus: Arctosa C. L. Koch, 1847 | Family: Lycosidae Sundevall, 1833

Arctosa leucostigma (Simon, 1885)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017726

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Distribution: India

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Lectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m (AR17730) - (Sankaran, 2026)
Paralectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 1f (AR17730) - (Sankaran, 2026)
Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India f (4654/18) of Arctosa himalayensis - (Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2021a)
Allotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India m (4654/18) of Arctosa himalayensis - (Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2021a)
Paratype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India 1f (4654/18) of Arctosa himalayensis - (Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2021a)
Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India f of Arctosa tappaensis - (Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2021a)
Allotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India m of Arctosa tappaensis - (Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2021a)
Paratype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India 1f of Arctosa tappaensis - (Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2021a)

Taxonomic References

Lycosa leucostigma Simon, 1885h: 10 (Dmf) Original description

Lycosa leucostigma Gravely, 1924: 603, f. 3H (mf)

Crocodilosa leucostigma Roewer, 1955c: 238

Arctosa himalayensis Tikader & Malhotra, 1980: 369, f. 238-241 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017589]

Arctosa himalayensis Tikader & Biswas, 1981: 59, f. 96-97 (f)

Arctosa tappaensis Gajbe, 2004c: 31, f. 40-44 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040061]

Arctosa himalayensis Dhali, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2017: 77, f. 389-393, pl. 23 (f)

Arctosa himalayensis Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2021a: 490, f. 1A-C, 2A-F, 3A-B, 4A-G (mf, S of Arctosa tappaensis)

Arctosa leucostigma Sankaran, 2026: 445, f. 1-5 (mf, T from Crocodilosa, S of Arctosa himalayensis)

References

Dhali, D. C., Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2017). Litter and ground dwelling spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of reserve forests of Dooars, West Bengal. World Scientific News 63: 1-242. [in 2020 the pdf on the homepage of the journal was replaced, by a one with 240 pp. and the authorship Raychadhuri & Saha; this is the second pdf] -- Show included taxa

Gajbe, U. A. (2004c). Studies on some spiders of the family Lycosidae (Araneae: Arachnida) from Madhya Pradesh, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 221: 1-40. -- Show included taxa

Gravely, F. H. (1924). Some Indian spiders of the family Lycosidae. Records of the Indian Museum, Calcutta 26: 587-613. -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. -- Show included taxa

Sankaran, P. M. (2026). Notes on Indian wolf spiders: IV. Transfer of species previously included in the genera Crocodilosa Caporiacco, 1947 and Geolycosa Montgomery, 1904 (Araneae: Lycosidae). Zootaxa 5886(3): 445-449. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5886.3.7 ZooBank: EA1F3A00-5988-4CA6-BC61-1217BBE106E7 -- Show included taxa

Sankaran, P. M., Caleb, J. T. D. & Sebastian, P. A. (2021a). Revision of Indian wolf spiders: I. Genus Arctosa C.L. Koch, 1847 (Araneae: Lycosidae, Tricassinae). Zootaxa 4908(4): 489-504. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4908.4.3 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1885h). Matériaux pour servir à la faune arachnologiques de l'Asie méridionale. I. Arachnides recueillis à Wagra-Karoor près Gundacul, district de Bellary par M. M. Chaper. II. Arachnides recueillis à Ramnad, district de Madura par M. l'abbé Fabre. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 10(1): 1-39. [pl. 10 see Simon, 1885e] -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. & Biswas, B. (1981). Spider fauna of Calcutta and vicinity: Part-I. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 30: 1-149. -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. & Malhotra, M. S. (1980). Lycosidae (wolf-spiders). Fauna India (Araneae) 1: 248-447. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2026-10-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Sankaran, 2026
2026-10-05	Type repository inserted	Sankaran, 2026
2026-10-05	Species transferred to new genus	Sankaran, 2026	Species transferred from Crocodilosa Caporiacco, 1947 to Arctosa C. L. Koch, 1847