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(WSC 15.0) did not accept Guy's conclusions; the changes by Guy, 1966 are noted (except where more recent work has superseded them); Guy, 1969 is merely a literature compilation that reflects those changes and is not cited separately; several genera of Lycosidae have been found not to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.

In synonymy:

Lycosina Simon, 1864 = Aulonia C. L. Koch, 1847 (Simon, 1876a: 358)

Gen. Aulonia C. L. Koch, 1847 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01600

type Lycosa albimana Walckenaer, 1805; gender feminine

N.B.: described as subgenus of Lycosa Latreille, 1804, elevated to genus by C. L. Koch, 1847: index 16 (index publ. in 1851); considered a senior synonym of Lycosina Simon, 1864: 369 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06371] (type Lycosa albimana Walckenaer, 1805) by Simon, 1876a: 358.

Transferred to other genera:

Aulonia luteonigra Mello-Leitão, 1945 -- see Agalenocosa

In synonymy:

Aulonia werneri Roewer, 1960 = Aulonia albimana (Walckenaer, 1805) (Job, 1968b: 408)

Nomina dubia:

Aulonia bergi (Holmberg, 1876: 176, Argentina, originally in Lycosa) -- Capocasale, 2001a: 270

Aulonia macrops Simon, 1898f: 30 (j, Brazil) -- Capocasale, 2001a: 270

Aulonia albimana (Walckenaer, 1805) | | Europe, Turkey, Caucasus urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017713 TYPE SPECIES

Lycosa albimana Walckenaer, 1805: 14 (D) Original description

Lycosa albimana Walckenaer, 1837: 341 (Dmf)

Aulonia albimana C. L. Koch, 1847: 202, f. 1411-1412 (mf)

Lycosina albimana Simon, 1864: 369, 515

Aulonia albimana Simon, 1876a: 359

Lycosa albimana Menge, 1879: 554, pl. 90, f. 318 (mf)

Aulonia albimana Becker, 1882b: 146, pl. 12, f. 4 (mf)

Aulonia albimana Simon, 1898a: 340, f. 344

Aulonia albimana Bösenberg, 1902: 371, pl. 34, f. 546 (mf)

Aulonia albimana Dahl, 1908: 302, f. 35 (mf)

Aulonia albimana Dahl & Dahl, 1927: 73, f. 189-192 (mf)

Aulonia albimana Simon, 1937: 1087, 1131, f. 1694-1695 (mf)

Aulonia albimana Bristowe, 1939: 44, f. 2-3 (mf)

Aulonia albimana Holm, 1947: 22, pl. 5, f. 48-49, pl. 9, f. 24 (mf)

Aulonia albimana Locket & Millidge, 1951: 290, f. 122A, 140A-B (mf)

Aulonia albimana Muller, 1955: 165, f. 25 (m)

Aulonia albimana Wiebes, 1959b: 56, f. 27-28, 83 (mf)

Aulonia albimana Roewer, 1960d: 971, f. 538a-d (mf)

Aulonia werneri Roewer, 1960d: 972, f. 539 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017718]

Aulonia albimana Job, 1968b: 408 (S of Aulonia werneri, type is juvenile)

Aulonia albimana Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu, 1971: 240, f. 117a-e, 118 (mf)

Aulonia albimana Miller, 1971: 148, pl. XXIII, f. 1-2 (mf)

Aulonia albimana Loksa, 1972: 64, f. 1A, 2A, D, 56, 57A-E (mf)

Aulonia albimana Wunderlich, 1984a: 26, f. 5 (f)

Aulonia albimana Roberts, 1985: 153, f. 67a (mf)

Aulonia albimana Zyuzin, 1985a: 42, f. 4

Aulonia albimana Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 324, f. 857 (mf)

Aulonia albimana Roberts, 1995: 235, f. (mf)

Aulonia albimana Roberts, 1998: 253, f. (mf)

Aulonia albimana Trotta, 2005: 168, f. 334-336 (mf)

Aulonia albimana Almquist, 2006: 206, f. 207a-f (mf)

Aulonia albimana Bayram et al., 2007b: 78, f. 1b (f)

Aulonia albimana Dentici & Amata, 2018: 272, f. 3-5 (m; probably misidentified: no yellow-white palpal patella)

Aulonia kratochvili Dunin, Buchar & Absolon, 1986 | | Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan), Iran, Turkmenistan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017715

Aulonia kratochvili Dunin, Buchar & Absolon, 1986: 28, f. 1-7 (Dmf) Original description

Aulonia kratochvili Kronestedt, 1997: 77, f. 1-2 (m)

Aulonia kratochvili Varol et al., 2007: 448, f. 2A-D (mf)

Pirata insularis Demircan & Topçu, 2011: 139, f. 7s-t (m; misidentified per Zamani et al., 2022b: 368)

Aulonia kratochvili Lecigne, 2011: 25, f. p. 29 (f)

Aulonia kratochvili Mirshamsi et al., 2015: 100, f. 1-3 (f)

Aulonia kratochvili Zonstein, Marusik & Omelko, 2015: 377, f. 3a-c (mf)

Aulonia kratochvili Lecigne, 2021a: 32, f. 28 (m)

Aulonia kratochvili Seropian et al., 2025b: 75, f. 32-35 (mf)

Aulonia kratochvili Fomichev, 2026: 8, f. 10-18 (mf)