Lycosidae, Sundevall, 1833

Breitling, Rainer, 2021, A completely resolved phylogenetic tree of British spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), Ecologica Montenegrina 46, pp. 1-51 : 26

Lycosidae

The arrangement of genera in this family follows Piacentini & Ramírez (2019). To infer the relationships within Trochosa , the morphological results of Hepner & Milasowszky (2006) are complemented with barcode data for several of the species. Following Breitling (2019b), Piratula is considered a junior synonym of Pirata , although the species traditionally included in this genus form a monophyletic group within the context of the British Isles , as do the British members of Pirata , and as supported by barcode data. The placement of P. tenuitarsis is based on its morphological similarity to P. piraticus ( Kronestedt 1980) .

The relationships within Alopecosa are based on morphological similarities and barcode results. The use of A. barbipes , instead of A. accentuata , for the British species is based on the argument presented by Breitling et al. (2016 b), which was curiously misunderstood by Canard & Cruveillier (2019). A manuscript presenting the historical detail of the confusion surrounding the naming of this species is currently in preparation (Bauer & Breitling, ms. submitted).

Arrangements within Arctosa follow the results of Knülle (1959), complemented by barcode data.

In Pardosa , the deep branches of the tree are inferred on the basis of morphological affinities, while barcode data resolve the internal relationships within species groups, including a number of semispecies complexes, which are particularly common in this genus.