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Genus: Dolomedes Latreille, 1804 | Family: Dolomedidae Simon, 1876

Dolomedes minor L. Koch, 1876

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019630

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Described:

Distribution: New Zealand

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Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 2m of Dolomedes lateralis - (Vink & Dupérré, 2010)
Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 2f of Dolomedes sagittiger - (Vink & Dupérré, 2010)
Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 1f of Dolomedes tridentatus - (Vink & Dupérré, 2010)

Taxonomic References

Dolomedes lateralis White, 1849: 4 (Dm; suppressed for lack of usage by Vink & Dupérré, 2010: 20) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019621]

Dolomedes sagittiger White, 1849: 4 (Df; suppressed for lack of usage by Vink & Dupérré, 2010: 20) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019648]

Dolomedes minor L. Koch, 1876a: 864, pl. 74, f. 2-3 (Dmf) Original description

Dolomedes imperiosus L. Koch, 1876a: 867, pl. 74, f. 4 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056173]

Dolomedes tridentatus Hogg, 1911: 311, f. 96 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019667]

Dolomedes minor Dalmas, 1917a: 408 (S of Dolomedes imperiosus)

Dolomedes minor Vink & Dupérré, 2010: 20, f. 4, 8, 12-15, 18, 22a-b, 26-27, 34-35 (mf, S of Dolomedes lateralis, D. sagittiger and D. tridentatus)

Dolomedes minor Connolly et al., 2025: 801, f. 2 (m)

References

Connolly, S. J., Harmer, A. M. T., Vink, C. J., Poy, D., Michalik, P. & Painting, C. J. (2025). No evidence for RTA morphology affecting introgression in New Zealand fishing spiders. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 52(5): 796-811. doi: 10.1080/03014223.2025.2522439 -- Show included taxa

Dalmas, R. de (1917a). Araignées de Nouvelle-Zélande. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 86: 317-430. -- Show included taxa

Hogg, H. R. (1911). On some New Zealand spiders. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 81(2): 297-313. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1911.tb01930.x -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1876a). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 17-19]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 741-888, pl. 65-76. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.121660 -- Show included taxa

Vink, C. & Dupérré, N. (2010). Pisauridae (Arachnida: Araneae). Fauna of New Zealand 64: 1-60. -- Show included taxa

White, A. (1849). Descriptions of apparently new species of Aptera from New Zealand. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 17: 3-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1849.tb01122.x [(reprinted in Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (2) 5: 50-53, 1850)] -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-07-31	New taxonomic reference entry	Connolly et al., 2025