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(WSC 15.0) did not accept Guy's conclusions; the changes by Guy, 1966 are noted (except where more recent work has superseded them); Guy, 1969 is merely a literature compilation that reflects those changes and is not cited separately; several genera of Lycosidae have been found not to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. Mustelicosa Roewer, 1960 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01639
N.B.: in Roewer, 1955c: 279 as nomen nudum; considered a subgenus of Arctosa C. L. Koch, 1847 by Guy, 1966: 63.

Transferred to other genera:

Mustelicosa goyderi (Hickman, 1944) -- see Venatrix

Nomen dubium:

Mustelicosa opiphex (Wagner, 1891: 626, pl. 16, f. 1-14, mf, Bulgaria, Russia, originally in Tarentula) -- Mikhailov, 1996: 109, sub Tarentula

Mustelicosa dimidiata (Thorell, 1875) | | Ukraine, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Turkmenistan, Mongolia, China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:018462
Trochosa dimidiata Thorell, 1875b: 107 (Dmf) Original description
Trochosa dimidiata Thorell, 1875c: 165 (Dmf)
Mustelicosa dimidiata Roewer, 1955c: 279
Mustelicosa dimidiata Marusik & Buchar, 2004: 153, f. 1-17 (mf; N.B.: members of this species may have been misidentified as Alopecosa albostriata or its putative synonyms)
Mustelicosa dimidiata Marusik & Kovblyuk, 2011: 185, f. 22.10, 13 (mf)
Mustelicosa dimidiata Marusik, 2018a: 289, f. 31-34 (m)
Mustelicosa dimidiata Yanul, Terekhova & Polchaninova, 2022: 185, f. 9 (f)
Mustelicosa ordosa (Hogg, 1912) | | China urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:018463
Lycosa ordosa Hogg, 1912: 210, f. 7 (Dmf) Original description
Mustelicosa ordosa Roewer, 1955c: 279

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