World Spider Catalog

Genus: Agalenocosa Mello-Leitão, 1944 | Family: Lycosidae Sundevall, 1833

Agalenocosa velox (Keyserling, 1891)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019132

Permalink: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019132

Described:

Distribution: Brazil, Argentina

External Resources*: GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK f (1870.7.1.2787) - (Piacentini, 2014)
Syntype: Museo de La Plata (MLP), La Plata, Argentina 1m 1f (16010-16011) of Agalenocosa singularis - (Piacentini, 2014)
Syntype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) 1m (02000, survived the fire 2018) of Agalenocosa singularis -

Taxonomic References

Pirata velox Keyserling, 1891: 265, pl. 10, f. 200 (Df) Original description

Agalenocosa singularis Mello-Leitão, 1944b: 338, f. 26-27 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017215]

Agalenocosa velox Piacentini, 2014: 5, f. 2a-d, 3a-b, 4a-b, 5a-d, 6a-c, 7a-c, 8a, 9a-f, 10a-e, 24a (mf, T from Pirata, S of Agalenocosa singularis)

References

Keyserling, E. (1891). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Brasilianische Spinnen. Dritter Band. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 278 pp, 10 pls. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.64832 -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1944b). Arañas de la provincia de Buenos Aires. Revista del Museo de La Plata (N.S., Zool.) 3: 311-393. -- Show included taxa

Piacentini, L. N. (2014). A taxonomic review of the wolf spider genus Agalenocosa Mello-Leitão (Araneae, Lycosidae). Zootaxa 3790(1): 1-35. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3790.1.1 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2014-08-04	New taxonomic reference entry	Piacentini, 2014
2014-08-04	Species distribution update	Piacentini, 2014	Old value
2014-08-04	Species updated	Piacentini, 2014	Old value
2014-08-04	Species synonymy	Piacentini, 2014		Agalenocosa singularis synonymized with Agalenocosa velox
2014-08-04	Species transferred to new genus	Piacentini, 2014		Species transferred from Pirata to Agalenocosa