World Spider Catalog

Genus: Lycosa Latreille, 1804 | Family: Lycosidae Sundevall, 1833

Lycosa abidae Sherwood, 2025

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064336

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Described:

Distribution: Pakistan

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan f of Lycosa maculata - (Butt, Anwar & Tahir, 2006)
Paratype: Department of Zoology and Fisheries, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan 4f of Lycosa maculata - (Butt, Anwar & Tahir, 2006)

Taxonomic References

Lycosa maculata Butt, Anwar & Tahir, 2006: 188, f. 3A-C (Df; preoccupied by Hahn, 1822, see Arctosa maculata) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040085] Original description

Lycosa abidae Sherwood, 2025a: 37 (replacement name)

References

Butt, A., Anwar, R. & Tahir, M. (2006). Some new species of family Lycosidae from agricultural fields of Punjab, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 38: 185-189. -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D. (2025a). Studies on spider nomenclature - III: replacement names for three primary homonyms (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Arachnology 20(1): 37-38. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.37 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-03-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood, 2025a
2025-03-13	New species inserted	Sherwood, 2025a

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