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(WSC 15.0) did not accept Guy's conclusions; the changes by Guy, 1966 are noted (except where more recent work has superseded them); Guy, 1969 is merely a literature compilation that reflects those changes and is not cited separately; several genera of Lycosidae have been found not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

Flanona Simon, 1898 = Zoica Simon, 1898 (Lehtinen & Hippa, 1979: 15)

Zobia Thorell, 1895 = Zoica Simon, 1898 (Simon, 1898a: 248, preoccupied, replacement name)

Homonym replaced:

Zobia Thorell, 1895 -- see Zoica Simon, 1898 - in Simon, 1898a

Gen. Zoica Simon, 1898 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01680

N.B.: replacement name for Zobia Thorell, 1895: 53 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05881], preoccupied in Lepidoptera by Saalmüller, 1891; transferred from the Agelenidae (or Zoridae) to the Lycosidae and considered a senior synonym of Flanona Simon, 1898a: 349 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05882] (type F. puellula Simon, 1898) by Lehtinen & Hippa, 1979: 15; not a senior synonym of Vagellia Simon, 1899 (see Cybaeidae).

Transferred to other genera:

Zoica harduarae (Biswas & Roy, 2008) -- see Draconarius

Zoica bambusicola Lehtinen & Hippa, 1979 | | Thailand urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019424

Zoica bambusicola Lehtinen & Hippa, 1979: 16, f. 58 (Df) Original description

Zoica bolubolu Lehtinen & Hippa, 1979 | | New Guinea urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019425

Zoica bolubolu Lehtinen & Hippa, 1979: 17, f. 61 (Df) Original description

Zoica carolinensis Framenau, Berry & Beatty, 2009 | | Caroline Is. urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042518

Zoica carolinensis Framenau, Berry & Beatty, 2009: 226, f. 1-2, 5-8 (Dmf) Original description

Zoica falcata Lehtinen & Hippa, 1979 | | Borneo, New Guinea urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019426

Zoica falcata Lehtinen & Hippa, 1979: 16, f. 6, 12, 16, 21, 51, 59 (Dmf) Original description

Zoica hainan Wang, Li & Zhang, 2021 | | China (Hainan) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:052779

Zoica hainan Wang et al., 2021a: 70, f. 72A-H, 73A-D, 74A-D (Dmf) Original description

Zoica minuta (McKay, 1979) | | Australia (Western Australia) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019427

Flanona minuta McKay, 1979b: 231, f. 1A-D (Df) Original description

Zoica oculata Buchar, 1997 | | Bhutan urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019428

Zoica oculata Buchar, 1997: 6, f. 1-4 (Df) Original description

Zoica pacifica Framenau, Berry & Beatty, 2009 | | Marshall Is. urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042519

Zoica pacifica Framenau, Berry & Beatty, 2009: 227, f. 3-4, 9-12 (Dmf) Original description

Zoica parvula (Thorell, 1895) | | Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019429

Zobia parvula Thorell, 1895b: 54 (Df; N.B.: generic name preoccupied) Original description

Zoica parvula Simon, 1898a: 248

Zoica parvula Lehtinen, 1967: 457, f. 401-402 (f)

Zoica parvula Lehtinen & Hippa, 1979: 15, f. 5, 11, 15, 20, 47, 56 (f, Dm)

Zoica puellula (Simon, 1898) | | India, Sri Lanka urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019430

Flanona puellula Simon, 1898a: 349 (Df) Original description

Flanona puellula Roewer, 1960d: 839, f. 465 (f)

Zoica puellula Lehtinen & Hippa, 1979: 16, f. 48, 57 (f, Dm)

Flanona puellula Tikader & Malhotra, 1980: 367, f. 236-237 (f)

Zoica puellula Sankaran & Sebastian, 2017a: 146, f. 1A-C, 2A-N, 3a-i (mf)

Zoica unciformis Li, Wang & Zhang, 2013 | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:046128

Zoica unciformis Li, Wang & Zhang, 2013: 30, f. 5A-E, 6A-H (Dmf) Original description

Zoica wauensis Lehtinen & Hippa, 1979 | | New Guinea urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019431

Zoica wauensis Lehtinen & Hippa, 1979: 17, f. 50, 60 (Dmf) Original description