Review of the wolf spider genus Halocosa Azarkina & Trilikauskas, 2019 from China (Araneae, Lycosidae)

Lu-Yu Wang; Muhammad Irfan; Yuri M Marusik; Zhi-Sheng Zhang

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1218.137275

Review of the wolf spider genus Halocosa Azarkina & Trilikauskas, 2019 from China (Araneae, Lycosidae)

Zookeys. 2024 Nov 19:1218:117-129. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1218.137275. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Lu-Yu Wang¹, Muhammad Irfan¹, Yuri M Marusik^{2

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4}, Zhi-Sheng Zhang¹

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
² College of Plant Protection, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
³ Institute for Biological Problems of the North RAS, Portovaya Str.18, Magadan 685000, Russia.
⁴ Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa.

Abstract

The wolf spider genus Halocosa Azarkina & Trilikauskas, 2019 from China is reviewed, including two species: H.cereipes (L. Koch, 1878) (♂♀) and H.hatanensis (Urita, Tang & Song, 1993) (♂♀). Both species are restricted to northern China, with H.cereipes recorded from China for the first time. Halocosajartica (Urita, Tang & Song, 1993), syn. nov. is synonymized with H.hatanensis (Urita, Tang & Song, 1993). Detailed species descriptions, along with morphological photos, genitalia illustrations, SEM photos of the bulbs and photos of live specimens are also presented.

Keywords: Distribution; Evippinae; Lycosinae; morphology; new record; redescription; synonym; taxonomy.

Lu-Yu Wang, Muhammad Irfan, Yuri M. Marusik, Zhi-Sheng Zhang.