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Genus: Trochosa C. L. Koch, 1847 | Family: Lycosidae Sundevall, 1833

Trochosa urbana O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017875

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Described:

Distribution: North Africa, Ethiopia to Seychelles, Madagascar (Nosy Be), Israel, Iran

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material destroyed 1944 m of Trochosa molensis - (Roewer, 1960d)
Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) f (10553) of Tarentula sansibarensis -
Holotype: Museum Lübeck, Germany; type material destroyed 1942 f of Trochosa urbana hova - (Nentwig et al., 2019)
Lectotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK m [N.B.: this cannot be a type specimen, because OPC gave only a name to the misidentified f of Lycosa agretyca Audouin, 1826] - (Marusik, Nadolny & Koponen, 2020)
Syntype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) 1m (13533-138) [N.B.: this cannot be a type specimen, because OPC gave only a name to the misidentified f of Lycosa agretyca Audouin, 1826] -
Syntype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart (SMNS), Germany; type material destroyed 1944 ff of Trochosa gofensis - (Roewer, 1960d)
Paralectotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK 2f 8ind [N.B.: this cannot be type specimens, because OPC gave only a name to the misidentified f of Lycosa agretyca Audouin, 1826] - (Marusik, Nadolny & Koponen, 2020)

Taxonomic References

Lycosa agretyca Audouin, 1826: 369, pl. 4, f. 6 (f; misidentified per O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876b: 601)

Trochosa urbana O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876b: 601, pl. 60, f. 14 (Dmf) Original description

Tarentula urbana gofensis Strand, 1906b: 685 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017824]

Tarentula urbana hova Strand, 1907d: 744 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017876]

Tarentula sansibarensis Strand, 1907d: 743 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:018114]

Tarentula urbana Strand, 1908k: 337

Tarentula urbana gofensis Strand, 1908l: 50, pl. 2, f. 20 (f)

Tarentula urbana Strand, 1908l: 49, pl. 2, f. 19 (f)

Tarentula urbana molensis Strand, 1908l: 48 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019091]

Lycosa urbana Lessert, 1915a: 61, pl. 3, f. 69-71, 76, 78 (mf)

Lycosa urbana gofensis Lessert, 1926: 343, f. 6A, 7A, 8 (f, Dm)

Trochosina arctosaeformis Caporiacco, 1940c: 798 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017724]

Lycosa urbana Denis, 1947a: 32, pl. 1, f. 6-7 (m)

Trochosa urbana gofensis Caporiacco, 1947c: 121

Paratrochosina arctosaeformis Roewer, 1955c: 282 (in generic nomen nudum)

Geolycosa urbana gofensis Roewer, 1955c: 242

Geolycosa urbana Roewer, 1955c: 241

Geolycosa urbana hova Roewer, 1955c: 242

Lycorma sansibarensis Roewer, 1955c: 266

Pirata molensis Roewer, 1955c: 285

Caporiaccosa arctosaeformis Roewer, 1960d: 928, f. 516 (T from Paratrochosina)

Geolycosa gofensis Roewer, 1960d: 701, f. 392a-c (mf, elevated from subspecies)

Geolycosa urbana Roewer, 1960d: 697, f. 390a-c (mf)

Geolycosa urbana hova Roewer, 1960d: 700, f. 391 (f)

Lycorma sansibarensis Roewer, 1960d: 787, f. 437 (f)

Trochosa urbana Saaristo, 2010: 88, f. 14.7-9 (mf)

Trochosa urbana Zonstein, Marusik & Omelko, 2015: 378 (T from Geolycosa)

Trochosa urbana Nentwig et al., 2019: 40, f. 7a-d (f)

Trochosa urbana hova Nentwig et al., 2019: 40, f. 7e (f, subspecies inquirenda)

Pirata molensis Nentwig et al., 2020: 24 (nomen dubium)

Trochosa urbana Marusik, Nadolny & Koponen, 2020: 482, 487, 488, 489, f. 1a-c, 2a-d, 3a-c, 4a-c,g, Suppl. f. 1A-E, 2.7-9, 3A-B,D, 4C-D, 5C (mf, S of Caporiaccosa arctosaeformis, Geolycosa gofensis, Hogna sansibarensis, Pirata molensis [removed from nomen dubium] and Trochosa urbana hova)

Trochosa urbana Abdel-Ghani, Hassan & Sallam, 2023: 34, f. 14 (m)

References

Abdel-Ghani, D. M., Hassan, M. F. & Sallam, G. M. E. (2023). Spiders as a bio-agent factor in a mango greenhouse at Giza Governorate, Egypt. Serket 20(1): 26-38. -- Show included taxa

Audouin, V. (1826). Explication sommaire des planches d'arachnides de l'Égypte et de la Syrie. In: Savigny, M. J. C. L. de: "Description de l'Égypte, ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée franҫaise, publié par les ordres de sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand.". Histoire Naturelle 1(4): 1-339 (arachnids, pp. 99-186, pl. 1-7). [[for year of publication and authorship see Sherbourn, 1897, Tollitt, 1986 and ICZN, 1987b; a second edition was publ. in 1829, with different pagination: arachnids, pp. 291-430]] -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1940c). Aracnidi raccolte nella Reg. dei Laghi Etiopici della Fossa Galla. Atti della Reale Accademia d'Italia 11: 767-873. -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1947c). Arachnida Africae Orientalis, a dominibus Kittenberger, Kovács et Bornemisza lecta, in Museo Nationali Hungarico servata. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 40: 97-257. -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1947a). Results of the Armstrong College expedition to Siwa Oasis (Libyan desert), 1935. Spiders [Araneae]. Bulletin de la Société Fouad 1^er d'Entomologie 31: 17-103, pl. 1-6. -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1915a). Arachnides de l'Ouganda et de l'Afrique orientale allemande. Voyage du Dr J. Carl dans la région des lacs de l'Afrique centrale. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 23(1): 1-89, pl. 1-3. -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1926). Araignées du Kilimandjaro et du Merou (suite et fin). 6. Lycosidae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 33: 335-357. -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M., Nadolny, A. A. & Koponen, S. (2020). Redescription of Trochosa urbana (Araneae: Lycosidae) with notes on its distribution. Arachnology 18(5): 482-489 & Suppl. Fig. 1-5. doi: 10.13156/arac.2020.18.5.482 -- Show included taxa

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Gloor, D., Jäger, P. & Kropf, C. (2019). Tackling taxonomic redundancy in spiders: the infraspecific spider taxa described by Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 58: 29-51. doi: 10.30963/aramit5809 -- Show included taxa

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Gloor, D., Jäger, P. & Kropf, C. (2020). How to deal with destroyed type material? The case of Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 22-29. doi: 10.30963/aramit5904 -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1876b). Catalogue of a collection of spiders made in Egypt, with descriptions of new species and characters of a new genus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 44(3): 541-630, pl. 58-60. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1876.tb02595.x -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1960d). Araneae Lycosaeformia II (Lycosidae) (Fortsetzung und Schluss). Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba, Mission G. F. de Witte 55: 519-1040. -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (2010). Araneae. In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 8-306. -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1906b). Diagnosen nordafrikanischer, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelter Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 30: 604-637, 655-690. -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907d). Diagnosen neuer Spinnen aus Madagaskar und Sansibar. Zoologischer Anzeiger 31: 725-748. -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1908k). Nordafrikanische, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelte Lycosiden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 73(I, 3, 1907): 291-376. -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1908l). Verzeichnis der von Oscar Neumann in Süd-Aethiopien gesammelten Spinnen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 74(I,1): 13-66. -- Show included taxa

Zonstein, S. L., Marusik, Y. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2015). A survey of spider taxa new to Israel (Arachnida: Araneae). Zoology in the Middle East 61(4): 372-385. doi: 10.1080/09397140.2015.1095525 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Gloor, D., Hänggi, A., Kropf, C.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 05.2018. doi: 10.24436/1

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2023-12-28	New taxonomic reference entry	Abdel-Ghani, Hassan & Sallam, 2023
2020-07-21	Species synonymy	Marusik, Nadolny & Koponen, 2020		Trochosa sansibarensis synonymized with Trochosa urbana
2020-07-20	Species synonymy	Marusik, Nadolny & Koponen, 2020		Trochosa arctosaeformis synonymized with Trochosa urbana
2020-07-20	Species synonymy	Marusik, Nadolny & Koponen, 2020		Trochosa urbana hova synonymized with Trochosa urbana
2020-07-20	Species synonymy	Marusik, Nadolny & Koponen, 2020		Trochosa molensis synonymized with Trochosa urbana
2020-07-20	Species synonymy	Marusik, Nadolny & Koponen, 2020		Trochosa gofensis synonymized with Trochosa urbana
2020-07-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Marusik, Nadolny & Koponen, 2020
2020-07-20	Species distribution update	Marusik, Nadolny & Koponen, 2020	Old value
2019-09-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Nentwig et al., 2019
2016-01-12	New taxonomic reference entry	Zonstein, Marusik & Omelko, 2015
2016-01-12	Species transferred to new genus	Zonstein, Marusik & Omelko, 2015		Species transferred from Geolycosa to Trochosa