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Genus: Wadicosa Zyuzin, 1985 | Family: Lycosidae Sundevall, 1833

Wadicosa okinawensis (Tanaka, 1985)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040932

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Described:

Distribution: Japan (Ryukyu Is.), China, Laos

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Holotype: Entomological Laboratory, College of Agriculture, University of Osaka Prefecture, Sakai, Japan f - (Tanaka, 1985)
Paratype: Entomological Laboratory, College of Agriculture, University of Osaka Prefecture, Sakai, Japan 8m 13f - (Tanaka, 1985)
Holotype: College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University (HNU), Changsha, China f of Wadicosa daliensis - (Yin, Peng & Zhang, 1997)
Allotype: College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University (HNU), Changsha, China m of Wadicosa daliensis - (Yin, Peng & Zhang, 1997)
Paratype: College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University (HNU), Changsha, China 5m 5f of Wadicosa daliensis - (Yin, Peng & Zhang, 1997)

Taxonomic References

Pardosa okinawensis Tanaka, 1985: 78, f. 41-44 (Dmf) Original description

Pardosa venatrix Yu & Song, 1988c: 117 (S, rejected)

Pardosa okinawensis Chikuni, 1989b: 116, f. 35 (mf)

Wadicosa daliensis Yin, Peng & Zhang, 1997: 99, f. 1-6 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019409]

Wadicosa daliensis Yin et al., 1997c: 285, f. 134a-e (mf)

Wadicosa daliensis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 346, f. 202B, F (mf)

Wadicosa okinawensis Tanaka, 2000a: 96, f. 1 (m, removed from S)

Wadicosa okinawensis Tanaka, 2009: 229, f. 44-45 (mf)

Wadicosa okinawensis Wang et al., 2021a: 68, f. 2D-F, 69A-H, 70A-E, 71A-D (mf)

Wadicosa daliensis Omelko, 2024: 244, f. 32-51 (mf)

Wadicosa okinawensis Magar, Ballarin & Eguchi, 2025: 4, f. 1A-G, 2A-E, 3A-C, 4A-I, 5A-I, 6A-B (mf, S of Wadicosa daliensis)

References

Chikuni, Y. (1989b). Pictorial encyclopedia of spiders in Japan. Kaisei-sha Publishing Co. Tokyo, 310 pp. -- Show included taxa

Magar, K. T., Ballarin, F. & Eguchi, K. (2025). Taxonomic re-evaluation of the wolf spider Wadicosa okinawensis (Tanaka, 1985) through morphological examination and DNA barcoding, with its redescription and a new synonymy (Araneae, Lycosidae, Pardosinae). Academia Journal of Biology 47(2): 1-15. doi: 10.15625/2615-9023/22083 -- Show included taxa

Omelko, M. M. (2024). New data on wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae) from Laos. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 72: 235-251. doi: 10.26107/RBZ-2024-0020 -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa

Tanaka, H. (1985). Descriptions of new species of the Lycosidae (Araneae) from Japan. Acta Arachnologica 33(2): 51-87. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.33.51 -- Show included taxa

Tanaka, H. (2000a). The spider, W. okinawensis (Tanaka), of the genus Wadicosa Zyuzin (Araneae: Lycosidae) in Japan. Acta Arachnologica 49(1): 95-97. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.49.95 -- Show included taxa

Tanaka, H. (2009). Lycosidae. In: Ono, H. (ed.) The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, pp. 222-248. -- Show included taxa

Wang, L. Y., Lu, T., Cai, D. C., Barrion, A. T., Heong, K. L., Li, S. Q. & Zhang, Z. S. (2021a). Review of the wolf spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae: Lycosidae). Zoological Systematics 46(1): 16-74. doi: 10.11865/zs.2021102 -- Show included taxa

Yin, C. M., Peng, X. J., Xie, L. P., Bao, Y. H. & Wang, J. F. (1997c). Lycosids in China (Arachnida: Araneae). Hunan Normal University Press, 317 pp. -- Show included taxa

Yin, C. M., Peng, X. J. & Zhang, Y. J. (1997). One new species of the genus Wadicosa (Araneae, Lycosidae) from China. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 6: 99-101. -- Show included taxa

Yu, L. M. & Song, D. X. (1988c). A revision of the Chinese spiders of the family Lycosidae (Araneae). Sinozoologia 6: 113-121. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-06-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Magar, Ballarin & Eguchi, 2025
2025-06-26	Species synonymy	Magar, Ballarin & Eguchi, 2025		Wadicosa daliensis synonymized with Wadicosa okinawensis
2021-01-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Wang et al., 2021a
2021-01-23	Species distribution update	Wang et al., 2021a	Old value