Taxon details

Family: Pisauridae / Genus: Megadolomedes

Megadolomedes australianus (L. Koch, 1865)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2018-04-09
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019728]
  • Distribution: Australia (New South Wales)
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: ; j of Dolomedes cervinus (lost) (Raven & Hebron, 2018)
  • Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); 1f 3j (A0002293-2295) [Raven & Hebron, 2018: ZMH 302 jm 'holotype']
Taxonomic references
Dolomedes australianus L. Koch, 1865: 863 (Dj).
Dolomedes cervinus L. Koch, 1876a: 872, pl. 75, f. 1 (Dj).
Dolomedes australianus L. Koch, 1876a: 873, pl. 75, f. 2 (Df).
Megadolomedes australianus Davies & Raven, 1980: 136 (T from Dolomedes; S of D. cervinus and D. trux, misidentified per Raven & Hebron, 2018: 266, see M. trux).
Megadolomedes australianus Raven & Hebron, 2018: 265, f. 40a-d (mf).
References

Davies, V. T. & Raven, R. J. (1980). Megadolomedes nov. gen. (Araneae: Pisauridae) with a description of the male of the type-species, Dolomedes australianus Koch 1865. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20: 135-141. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1865). Beschreibungen neuer Arachniden und Myriopoden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 15: 857-892. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1876a). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 17-19]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 741-888, pl. 65-76. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.121660 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Raven, R. J. & Hebron, W. (2018). A review of the water spider family Pisauridae in Australia and New Caledonia with descriptions of four new genera and 23 new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Nature 60: 233-381. doi:10.17082/j.2204-1478.60.2018.2017-06 download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2018-04-09 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Megadolomedes johndouglasi Raven & Hebron, 2018
2018-04-09 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Megadolomedes trux (Lamb, 1911)
2018-04-09 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Megadolomedes trux (Lamb, 1911)
2018-04-09 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Megadolomedes trux (Lamb, 1911)
2018-04-09 New taxonomic reference entry Raven & Hebron, 2018 n/a
2018-04-09 Species distribution update Raven & Hebron, 2018 n/a (Old value)