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(WSC 15.0) did not accept Guy's conclusions; the changes by Guy, 1966 are noted (except where more recent work has superseded them); Guy, 1969 is merely a literature compilation that reflects those changes and is not cited separately; several genera of Lycosidae have been found not to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. Brevilabus Strand, 1908 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01602
N.B.: described as a subgenus of Tarentula Sundevall, 1833 = Alopecosa Simon, 1885.
Brevilabus gillonorum Cornic, 1980 | | Ivory Coast urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017720
Brevilabus gillonorum Cornic, 1980: 25, f. 1-5 (Dmf, generic placement considered uncertain) Original description
Brevilabus oryx (Simon, 1886) | | Senegal, Ethiopia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017721
Lycosa oryx Simon, 1886g: 356 (Dm) Original description
Tarentula oryx Strand, 1908l: 54, pl. 2, f. 24 (also mentioning the provisional name orycella)
Brevilabus oryx Caporiacco, 1941b: 45 (Df)
Brevilabus oryx Roewer, 1959b: 159, f. 84a-b (m)

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