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Genus: Dendrolycosa Doleschall, 1859 | Family: Pisauridae Simon, 1890

Dendrolycosa robusta (Thorell, 1895)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019574

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Described:

Distribution: India, Myanmar, China, Laos, Vietnam

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Syntype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden 1m 5f 3j - (Jäger, 2011)
Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 1m 4f 2jm 1jf 1j (895.9.21.752-760) - (Jäger, 2011)
Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India f (not found) of Dendrolycosa bobbiliensis - (Sankaran et al., 2026)
Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f of Nilus lanceolatus - (Jäger, 2011)
Holotype: Museum of Hebei University (MHBU), Baoding, China f of Pisaura lizhii - (Jäger, 2011)

Taxonomic References

Therimachus robustus Thorell, 1895b: 224 (Dmf) Original description

Dendrolycosa robusta Simon, 1898a: 289

Nilus lanceolatus Simon, 1898f: 16 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019731]

Pisaura bobbiliensis Reddy & Patel, 1993c: 181, f. 1-6 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019752]

Pisaura lizhii Zhang, 2000a: 4, f. 3A-C (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019758]

Dianpisaura lizhii Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004d: 367, f. 2-7, 176-181 (Dm, f, T from Pisaura)

Dendrolycosa bobbiliensis Jäger, 2011: 13, f. 39-40 (f, T from Pisaura)

Dendrolycosa robusta Jäger, 2011: 14, f. 42-80 (mf, S of Nilus lanceolatus and Dianpisaura lizhii)

Dendrolycosa robusta Sudhin et al., 2025a: 185, f. 1A-D, 2A-F, 3A-B (m)

Dendrolycosa robusta Sankaran et al., 2026: 2, f. 1, 9-16 (f, S of Dendrolycosa bobbiliensis)

References

Jäger, P. (2011). Revision of the spider genera Nilus O. Pickard-Cambridge 1876, Sphedanus Thorell 1877 and Dendrolycosa Doleschall 1859 (Araneae: Pisauridae). Zootaxa 3046: 1-38. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3046.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Reddy, T. S. & Patel, B. H. (1993c). Two new species of the genera Pisaura Simon and Tinus Cambridge (Araneae: Pisauridae) from India. Entomon 18: 181-184. -- Show included taxa

Sankaran, P. M., Abraham, A., Williams, S. H. & Asima, A. (2026). New data on Indian nursery-web spiders (Araneae: Pisauridae). Zootaxa 5757(1): 1-25. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5757.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1898a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 193-380. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1898f). Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux des familles des Agelenidae, Pisauridae, Lycosidae et Oxyopidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 42: 5-34. -- Show included taxa

Sudhin, P. P., Nafin, K. S., Sudhikumar, A. V. & Sen, S. (2025a). First record of Dendrolycosa robusta (Thorell 1895) (Araneae: Pisauridae) from India. Entomological News 132(2): 184-189. doi: 10.3157/021.132.0207 -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1895b). Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma, based upon the collection made by Eugene W. Oates and preserved in the British Museum. London, 406 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.17492 -- Show included taxa

Zhang, J. X. (2000a). Taxonomy studies on Chinese spiders of the genus Pisaura (Araneae: Pisauridae) I. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 9: 1-9. -- Show included taxa

Zhang, J. X., Zhu, M. S. & Song, D. X. (2004d). A review of the Chinese nursery-web spiders (Araneae, Pisauridae). Journal of Arachnology 32(3): 353-417. doi: 10.1636/M02-58 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2026-02-03	New taxonomic reference entry	Sankaran et al., 2026
2025-03-12	New taxonomic reference entry	Sudhin et al., 2025a
2025-03-12	Species distribution update	Sudhin et al., 2025a	Old value