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(WSC 15.0) did not accept Guy's conclusions; the changes by Guy, 1966 are noted (except where more recent work has superseded them); Guy, 1969 is merely a literature compilation that reflects those changes and is not cited separately; several genera of Lycosidae have been found not to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. Varacosa Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01672
N.B.: described as subgenus of Trochosa C. L. Koch, 1847; removed from the synonymy of Trochosa by Jiménez & Dondale, 1988: 172 (sensu Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942a: 36, not Roewer; see under Trochosa for all names listed by Roewer under Varacosa, except V. avara, V. gosiuta, V. parthenus and V. shenandoa).

Transferred to other genera:

Varacosa tanna (Strand, 1913) -- see Hogna

Varacosa apothetica (Wallace, 1947) | | USA urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019276
Lycosa apothetica Wallace, 1947: 33, f. 1-2 (Dmf) Original description
Varacosa apothetica Roewer, 1955c: 306
Varacosa apothetica Dreyer, 2008: 487, f. 1-7 (mf, T from Trochosa)
Varacosa avara (Keyserling, 1877) | | USA, Canada urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019387
Trochosa avara Keyserling, 1877a: 661, pl. 8, f. 38-39 (Dmf) Original description
Lycosa rufiventris Banks, 1892a: 65, pl. 3, f. 35 (Df)
Lycosa avara Montgomery, 1903: 650, pl. 29, f. 2 (f)
Trochosa avara Montgomery, 1904: 304, pl. 18, f. 12, pl. 20, f. 42 (mf)
Lycosa avara Chamberlin, 1908: 279, pl. 20, f. 1-3 (mf)
Lycosa avara Emerton, 1909: 202, pl. 7, f. 2 (f)
Lycosa avara Comstock, 1912: 640, f. 720a
Lycosa avara Comstock, 1940: 650, f. 720a (f)
Trochosa (Varacosa) avara Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942a: 36
Lycosa avara Kaston, 1948: 329, f. 1091, 1114-1116 (mf)
Trochosa avara Brady, 1980: 191, f. 3, 19-21, 36-40 (mf)
Varacosa avara Roth, 1982: 28-7, f. 5 (m)
Varacosa avara Roth, 1985: B24-6, f. 5 (m)
Varacosa avara Jiménez & Dondale, 1988: 172, f. 1-4 (mf, T from Trochosa)
Varacosa avara Dondale & Redner, 1990: 93, f. 108-112 (mf)
Varacosa avara Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 171, f. 1929-1932 (mf)
Varacosa gosiuta (Chamberlin, 1908) | | USA urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019388
Lycosa avara gosiuta Chamberlin, 1908: 281, pl. 20, f. 14 (Df) Original description
Lycosa gosiuta Banks, Newport & Bird, 1932: 31, f. 3, 5, 7 (mf)
Lycosa gosiuta Gertsch, 1935a: 20
Trochosa (Varacosa) gosiuta Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942a: 36
Varacosa gosiuta Roewer, 1955c: 306
Trochosa gosiuta Brady, 1980: 196, f. 4, 26-27, 44-46 (mf)
Varacosa gosiuta Jiménez & Dondale, 1988: 172 (T from Trochosa)
Varacosa hoffmannae Jiménez & Dondale, 1988 | | Mexico urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019389
Varacosa hoffmannae Jiménez & Dondale, 1988: 172, f. 5-10 (Dmf) Original description
Varacosa parthenus (Chamberlin, 1925) | | USA urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019390
Lycosa parthenus Chamberlin, 1925d: 228 (Df) Original description
Lycosa parthenus Gertsch & Wallace, 1935: 12, f. 28-29 (f, Dm)
Trochosa (Varacosa) parthenus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942a: 36
Varacosa parthenus Roewer, 1955c: 306
Trochosa parthenus Brady, 1980: 204, f. 6-9, 32-33 (mf)
Varacosa parthenus Jiménez & Dondale, 1988: 172 (T from Trochosa)
Varacosa shenandoa (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942) | | USA, Canada urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019391
Trochosa (Varacosa) shenandoa Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942a: 37, pl. 7, f. 78 (Df) Original description
Trochosa shenandoa Barnes, 1953: 14, f. 10 (Dm)
Varacosa shenandoa Roewer, 1955c: 307
Trochosa shenandoa Brady, 1980: 200, f. 5, 17-18, 22-25, 34-35, 41-43 (mf)
Varacosa shenandoa Roth, 1982: 28-7, f. 6 (f)
Varacosa shenandoa Roth, 1985: B24-6, f. 6 (f)
Varacosa shenandoa Dondale & Redner, 1990: 94, f. 113-117 (mf, T from Trochosa)
Varacosa shenandoa Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 171, f. 1933-1936 (mf)

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