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(WSC 15.0) did not accept Guy's conclusions; the changes by Guy, 1966 are noted (except where more recent work has superseded them); Guy, 1969 is merely a literature compilation that reflects those changes and is not cited separately; several genera of Lycosidae have been found not to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. Megarctosa Caporiacco, 1948 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01635
N.B.: possibly a junior synonym of Lycosa Latreille, 1804 (Wunderlich, 1984a: 23).

Transferred to other genera:

Megarctosa bamiana Roewer, 1960 -- see Arctosa

Megarctosa hentzi (Banks, 1904) -- see Rabidosa

Megarctosa leopardus (Sundevall, 1833) -- see Arctosa

Megarctosa melanostoma (Mello-Leitão, 1941) -- see Prolycosides

Megarctosa stigmosa (Thorell, 1875) -- see Arctosa

Megarctosa aequioculata (Strand, 1906) | | Ethiopia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:018451
Tarentula aequioculata Strand, 1906b: 675 (Df) Original description
Arctosa aequioculata Caporiacco, 1940c: 797, f. 15 (Dm)
Megarctosa aequioculata Roewer, 1955c: 278
Megarctosa aequioculata Roewer, 1960d: 840, f. 467a-b (mf)
Megarctosa argentata (Denis, 1947) | | Algeria, Egypt urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:018452
Arctosa argentata Denis, 1947a: 36, pl. 6, f. 1 (Df) Original description
Arctosa argentata Denis, 1954a: 323, f. 17 (Dm)
Megarctosa argentata Roewer, 1955c: 277
Megarctosa argentata Roewer, 1960d: 841, f. 468 (f)
Megarctosa caporiaccoi Roewer, 1960 | | Cameroon urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:018454
Megarctosa caporiaccoi Roewer, 1960d: 842, f. 466 (Df) Original description
Megarctosa gobiensis (Schenkel, 1936) | | Mongolia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:018455
Arctosa gobiensis Schenkel, 1936b: 292, f. 101 (Df) Original description
Megarctosa gobiensis Roewer, 1955c: 277
Megarctosa naccai Caporiacco, 1948 | | Greece urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:018457
Megarctosa naccai Caporiacco, 1948c: 42, f. 3 (Df) Original description

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