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(WSC 15.0) did not accept Guy's conclusions; the changes by Guy, 1966 are noted (except where more recent work has superseded them); Guy, 1969 is merely a literature compilation that reflects those changes and is not cited separately; several genera of Lycosidae have been found not to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. Spiniculosa Kronestedt, 2025 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06348
type Pardosa crassipalpis Purcell, 1903; gender feminine

In synonymy:

Spiniculosa upembensis (Roewer, 1959, T from Pardosa) = Spiniculosa crassipalpis (Purcell, 1903) (Kronestedt, 2025: 213)

Spiniculosa albida Kronestedt, 2025 | | Kenya urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065682
Spiniculosa albida Kronestedt, 2025: 217, f. 2A-B, 3C-D, 4D-F, 5B, 6D-F, 7B, 8C, 9B, D (Dmf) Original description
Spiniculosa crassipalpis (Purcell, 1903) | | Ethiopia, DR Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:018597 TYPE SPECIES
Pardosa crassipalpis Purcell, 1903b: 138, pl. 8, f. 26 (Dmf) Original description
Pardosa crassipalpis Roewer, 1959b: 122, f. 61a-b (f)
Passiena upembensis Roewer, 1959b: 165, f. 119a-b (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019044]
Pardosa upembensis Lehtinen, 2005: 406 (T from Passiena, probable S of Pardosa crassipalpis)
Pardosa crassipalpis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021l: 19, p. 17: 2 f., p. 19: 5 f., p. 20: 4 f. (f, m habitus)
Pardosa crassipalpis Dippenaar-Schoeman & Webb, 2023f: 21, f. 1-9 (f)
Spiniculosa crassipalpis Kronestedt, 2025: 213, f. 1A-F, 3A-B, 4A-C, 5A, 6A-C, 7A, C-D, 8 A-B, 9A, C (mf, T from Pardosa, S of P. upembensis)

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