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(WSC 15.0) did not accept Guy's conclusions; the changes by Guy, 1966 are noted (except where more recent work has superseded them); Guy, 1969 is merely a literature compilation that reflects those changes and is not cited separately; several genera of Lycosidae have been found not to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. Melocosa Gertsch, 1937 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01637
N.B.: transferred here from the Pisauridae by Leech, 1969b: 890.
Melocosa fumosa (Emerton, 1894) | | USA, Canada urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:018459
Lycosa fumosa Emerton, 1894: 421, pl. 3, f. 1 (Dmf) Original description
Lycosa fumosa Chamberlin, 1908: 272, pl. 19, f. 2-3
Melocosa fumosa Gertsch, 1937: 7, f. 5 (mf)
Melocosa fumosa Leech, 1969b: 890, f. 1-5 (mf)
Melocosa fumosa Dondale & Redner, 1990: 276, f. 433-437 (mf)
Melocosa gertschi Mello-Leitão, 1947 | | Brazil urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:018460
Melocosa gertschi Mello-Leitão, 1947d: 130, f. 4 (Dm) Original description

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