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(WSC 15.0) did not accept Guy's conclusions; the changes by Guy, 1966 are noted (except where more recent work has superseded them); Guy, 1969 is merely a literature compilation that reflects those changes and is not cited separately; several genera of Lycosidae have been found not to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. Pandacosa Wang, Li, Marusik & Zhang, 2026 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06455
type Hippasa bifasciata Buchar, 1997; gender feminine
Pandacosa bifasciata (Buchar, 1997) | | Bhutan, China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017895 TYPE SPECIES
Hippasa bifasciata Buchar, 1997: 12, f. 10-14 (Df) Original description
Hogna bifasciata Wu et al., 2025b: 4, f. 1A-D, 2A-B (f, T from Hippasa)
Pandacosa bifasciata Wang et al., 2026a: 210, f. 8A-D, 9A-D, 10D-F, J, 11A-D, 12A-H (Dm, f, T from Hogna)

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