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Genus: Lynxosa Roewer, 1960 | Family: Lycosidae Sundevall, 1833

Lynxosa ligata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1870)

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Described:

Distribution: St. Helena

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Type Repository Provide information

Paralectotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany 1f (13473-138; tarsal claw, apparently dissected from one of the paralectotype female specimens in OUMNH) - (Sherwood et al., 2023d)
Lectotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK m (1581) - (Sherwood et al., 2023d)
Paralectotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK 5m 3f 1j (1581) - (Sherwood et al., 2023d)
Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany jf (10515) of Tarentula sanctaehelenae - (Sherwood et al., 2023d)

Taxonomic References

Lycosa ligata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1870b: 540, pl. 42, f. 8 (Dmf) Original description

Tarentula sanctae-helenae Strand, 1909g: 588 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056621]

Vesubia ligata Roewer, 1955c: 308

Xerolycosa sanctae-helenae Roewer, 1955c: 310

Vesubia ligata Roewer, 1960d: 892, f. 495a-c (mf)

Lynxosa ligata Tongiorgi, 1977: 113, f. 49a-g (mf, T from Vesubia, S of Xerolycosa sanctaehelenae)

Hogna ligata Sherwood et al., 2023d: 834, f. 97-119, 121-124 (mf)

Lynxosa ligata Sherwood et al., 2024e: 1243 (T from Hogna)

References

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1870b). Notes on some spiders and scorpions from St Helena, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 37(3, 1869): 531-544, pl. 42. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1869.tb07363.x [[published in April 1870, after Duncan, 1937]] -- 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

Sherwood, D., Henrard, A., Logunov, D. V. & Fowler, L. (2023d). Saint Helenian wolf spiders, with description of two new genera and three new species (Araneae: Lycosidae). Arachnology 19(5): 816-851. doi: 10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.816 -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Henrard, A., Jocqué, R., Fowler, L., Marusik, Y. M., Maddison, W., Harvey, M. S., Hormiga, G., Rheims, C. A., Piacentini, L. N., Peters, M., Stevens, N., Joshua, D., Scipio-O’Dean, C. J., Ellick, G., Wilkins, V., Ashmole, M. & Ashmole, P. (2024e). Annotated checklist of the spiders of Saint Helena, with new records, descriptions of unknown sexes, new and restored genera, and two new species (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Arachnology 19(9): 1218-1291. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.19.9.1218 -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1909g). Spinnentiere von Südafrika und einigen Inseln gesammelt bei der deutschen Südpolar-Expedition. In: Drygalsky, E. von (ed.) Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition, 1901-1903, im Auftrage des Reichsamtes des Innern. X. Band. Zoologie II. Band. Georg Reimer, Berlin, pp. 541-596. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.2166 -- Show included taxa

Tongiorgi, P. (1977). Fam. Lycosidae. In: La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène IV. Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques (Zool.-Ser. 8°) 220: 105-125. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2024-11-04	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood et al., 2024e
2024-11-04	Species transferred to new genus	Sherwood et al., 2024e		Species transferred from Hogna to Lynxosa
2023-07-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood et al., 2023d
2016-10-29	Species updated	O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1870b	Old value	Error corrected