World Spider Catalog

Lycosidae Sundevall, 1833

Family | ACCEPTED

In synonymy:

Melloicosa Roewer, 1960 = Birabenia Mello-Leitão, 1941 (Piacentini & Laborda, 2013: 40)

Gen. Birabenia Mello-Leitão, 1941 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04191

type Birabenia birabenae Mello-Leitão, 1941; gender feminine

N.B.: removed from the synonymy of Hogna Simon, 1885 by Piacentini & Laborda, 2013: 40 (contra Capocasale, 1990: 137) and considered by those authors to be a senior synonym of Melloicosa Roewer, 1960d: 949 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01636] (type Gnatholycosa vittata Mello-Leitão, 1945) .

In synonymy:

Birabenia murina (Mello-Leitão, 1941, T from Paratrochosina) = Birabenia birabenae Mello-Leitão, 1941 (Piacentini & Laborda, 2013: 43)

Birabenia sanogastensis (Mello-Leitão, 1941, T from Scaptocosa=Geolycosa) = Birabenia birabenae Mello-Leitão, 1941 (Piacentini & Laborda, 2013: 44)

Birabenia taeniata Mello-Leitão, 1943 = Birabenia birabenae Mello-Leitão, 1941 (Piacentini & Laborda, 2013: 43)

Birabenia birabenae Mello-Leitão, 1941 | | Argentina urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017951 TYPE SPECIES

Birabenia birabenae Mello-Leitão, 1941d: 137, pl. 6, f. 27, 33-34 (Dmf) Original description

Alopecosa murina Mello-Leitão, 1941d: 122, f. 19 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:018492]

Lycosa sanogastensis Mello-Leitão, 1941d: 133, f. 31, pl. 6, f. 25 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017861]

Birabenia taeniata Mello-Leitão, 1943c: 108, f. 9 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019789]

Tarentula murinella Roewer, 1951: 441 (unneeded replacement name for Alopecosa murina, not thought congeneric with Lycosa murina Nicolet, 1849)

Paratrochosina murina Roewer, 1955c: 282 (in generic nomen nudum)

Scaptocosa sanogastensis Roewer, 1955c: 292

Paratrochosina murina Roewer, 1960d: 931 (T from Alopecosa)

Hogna birabenae Capocasale, 1990: 137, f. 8-11 (mf)

Tetragonophthalma taeniata Capocasale, 1990: 138 (Tj from Birabenia)

Hogna taeniata Silva, Lise & Carico, 2009: 106 (Tj from Tetragonophthalma, considered a nomen dubium)

Birabenia birabenae Piacentini & Laborda, 2013: 42, f. 1a-f, 2a-f, 3a-g, 4a-e, 5a-b (mf, S)

Birabenia vittata (Mello-Leitão, 1945) | | Argentina, Uruguay urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:018458

Gnatholycosa vittata Mello-Leitão, 1945b: 249 (Dj) Original description

Melloicosa vittata Roewer, 1955c: 278

Birabenia vittata Piacentini & Laborda, 2013: 49, f. 6a-f, 7a-f, 8a-e, 9a-e, 10a-b (Dmf)