Geolycosa vultuosa (C.L. Koch, 1838 )

Steinpress, Igor Armiach, Cohen, Mira, Pétillon, Julien, Chipman, Ariel D. & Gavish-Regev, Efrat, 2022, Lycosa Latreille, 1804 (Araneae, Lycosidae) of Israel, with a note on Geolycosa Montgomery, 1904, European Journal of Taxonomy 832 (1), pp. 1-54 : 12-13

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2022.832.1877
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6949782
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scientific name	Geolycosa vultuosa (C.L. Koch, 1838 )
status

Treatment

Geolycosa vultuosa (C.L. Koch, 1838) View in CoL

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Lycosa vultuosa C.L. Koch, 1838: 102 , figs 407–408 (D ♂ ♀).

Lycosa infernalis Motschulsky, 1849: 289 , pl. 2 figs 1–2 (D ♂; N.B.: considered a nomen dubium by Zyuzin & Logunov 2000: 309).

Trochosa infernalis Thorell, 1875: 172 (D ♀).

Arctosa vultuosa – Simon 1864: 346.

Trochosa infernalis – Lendl 1887: 37, 51, figs 1–15 (♂ ♀).

Mimohogna vultuosa – Roewer 1955: 279.

Lycosa vultuosa – Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971: 202, figs 98a–b, 99a–f (♂ ♀). — Miller 1971: 154, pl. xxiii fig. 24, pl. xxiv fig. 5 (♂ ♀). — Loksa 1972: 51, figs 44c, 46c–d (♂ ♀). — Mcheidze 1997: 226, figs 474–475 (♂ ♀).

Geolycosa vultuosa View in CoL – Zyuzin & Logunov 2000: 308, figs 5–6, 10 (T ♂ ♀ from Lycosa View in CoL ). — Kovblyuk et al. 2012: 246, figs 8, 11, 14, 18, 21, 27, 30, 36, 39, 43 (♂ ♀).

Diagnosis

Large lycosids (carapace> 5 mm). 1 st eye row as wide as 2 nd eye row (PME). Front of cephalothorax square from above. 1 st eye row <0.5 width of front of carapace. Epigyne septum hammer-shaped, pedicel twice as long as than width of septum base. Terminal apophysis (TA) with prolateral spur. TA (incl. spur)> 0.5 width of bulb. The only species of Geolycosa in the Levantine region ( Figs 1A View Fig , 2A View Fig , 3A View Fig , 4A View Fig , 5A View Fig , 6A View Fig ).

The only species in the Levant with a similar habitus is Hogna effera (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) . It is generally smaller, with septal pedicel as long as width of septum base, TA smaller than 0.5 width of bulb.

Material examined

ISRAEL – Galilee • 2 ♂♂; Karmiel; [32.9168° N, 35.2946° E]; 30 Dec. 2016; I. Armiach Steinpress leg.; HUJ INV-AR20960 , HUJ INV-AR20961 GoogleMaps .

Natural history

This is a burrowing species, found mainly in open, herbaceous habitats ( Mcheidze 1997). Hibernation takes place in the burrow (at least in the north of its range) ( Mcheidze 1997), juveniles emerge in springtime. Maturation takes about a year ( Mcheidze 1997). The species is preyed upon by pompiliids, scorpions and centipedes, and the eggs are subject to mite infestations ( Mcheidze 1997). The specimens examined in this study were found active in daytime in an urban meadow: one on the surface, the other in a burrow with a turret made of soil ( Figs 7A View Fig , 19A View Fig , 21A View Fig , 22 View Fig , Table 4 View Table 4 ).

Distribution

AZERBAIJAN, BULGARIA, GEORGIA, HUNGARY, IRAN, RUSSIA, TURKEY, UKRAINE ( World Spider Catalog 2022), ISRAEL. According to Mcheidze (1997), also SYRIA.

Records

ISRAEL: Galilee (Karmiel) ( Fig. 1 View Fig ).

Relationships

Geolycosa vultuosa is related to Geolycosa charitonovi ( Mcheidze, 1997) and Geolycosa dunini Zyuzin & Logunov, 2000 ( Zyuzin & Logunov 2000). The type species of Geolycosa ( G. latifrons Montgomery, 1904 ) is of Nearctic distribution. It may not be congeneric with the Palearctic species ascribed to Geolycosa . As the revision work needed to find the correct phylogenetic placement of G. vultuosa is widely beyond the scope of this work, we refrained from moving G. vultuosa to a different genus.