Pisauridae Simon, 1890

Family |   ACCEPTED
N.B.: placement of some nursery-web spiders in a separate family Dolomedidae Simon, 1898a: 281, 301 (Lehtinen, 1967) [but Dolomedinae was first used by Simon, 1876a: 226, which makes it older than Pisauridae, overlooked by Bonnet, 1956: 1543] was rejected by Sierwald, 1990: 50, who also recognized a "Trechalea genus group [that] is not a close relative of the nursery-web Pisauridae" and whose members are now listed under Trechaleidae; considered a synonym of Bradystichidae Simon, 1884e: 298 (removed from the synonymy of Lycosidae by Lehtinen, 1967: 293) by Platnick & Forster, 1993: 3 and of Halidae JocquƩ, 1994b: 281 by JocquƩ & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006: 212; probably includes Senoculidae (Murphy & Roberts, 2015: ix); mentioning of "Dolomediens" by Simon, 1864: 342, but the French ending -iens was not accepted as taxon at familiar level by Bonnet and Platnick, and this is continued here; the family is not monophyletic per Kulkarni, Wood & Hormiga, 2023: 518, f. 17-18.
Gen. Megadolomedes Davies & Raven, 1980 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01718

In synonymy:

Megadolomedes cervinus (L. Koch, 1876, T from Dolomedes) = Megadolomedes australianus L. Koch, 1865 (Davies & Raven, 1980: 136)

Megadolomedes australianus (L. Koch, 1865) | | Australia (New South Wales) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019728
Dolomedes australianus L. Koch, 1865: 863 (Dj) Original description
Dolomedes cervinus L. Koch, 1876a: 872, pl. 75, f. 1 (Dj)
Dolomedes australianus L. Koch, 1876a: 873, pl. 75, f. 2 (Df)
Megadolomedes australianus Davies & Raven, 1980: 136 (T from Dolomedes; S of D. cervinus and D. trux, misidentified per Raven & Hebron, 2018: 266, see M. trux)
Megadolomedes australianus Raven & Hebron, 2018: 265, f. 40a-d (mf)
Megadolomedes johndouglasi Raven & Hebron, 2018 | | Australia (Tasmania, Victoria) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050227
Dolomedes australianus Hickman, 1967: 82, f. 144-146 (f; misidentified per Raven & Hebron, 2018: 268)
Megadolomedes johndouglasi Raven & Hebron, 2018: 268, f. 39d, 43a-d (Dmf) Original description
Megadolomedes nord Raven & Hebron, 2018 | | Australia (Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050228
Megadolomedes nord Raven & Hebron, 2018: 269, f. 42d-e (Df) Original description
Megadolomedes trux (Lamb, 1911) | | Australia (New South Wales, Queensland) urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050226
Dolomedes trux Lamb, 1911: 173, f. 4 (Df)
Dolomedes trux Rainbow, 1912c: 210, f. 1-3 (f)
Megadolomedes australianus Davies & Raven, 1980: 136, f. 1-12, pl. 1A-D (Dm, f, T of M. australianus from Dolomedes, S of Dolomedes trux with M. australianus; S of M. trux removed and figs. misidentified per Raven & Hebron, 2018: 266)
Megadolomedes trux Raven & Hebron, 2018: 266, f. 1a, 3b,d, 39a-c, 41a-c, 42a-c (mf, removed from S of M. australianus) Original description

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