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Issue: Vol. 4497 No. 2: 9 Oct. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-10-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4497.2.9
Page range: 295–300
Abstract views: 48
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Redescription of enigmatic spider genus Stoliczka O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 (Araneae: Lycosoidea) based on the type species

Institute for Biological Problems of the North RAS, Portovaya Str. 18, Magadan 685000, Russia. E-mail: yurmar@mail.ru Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa Zoological Museum, Biodiversity Unit, FI-20014 University of Turku, Finland
Institute of Marine Biological Research of Russian Academy of Sciences, Nakhimov Avenue 2, Sevastopol 299011.
Araneae Aranei spider Pisauridae Lycosidae Pakistan

Abstract

The type species of Stoliczka O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885—S. insignis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885—is redescribed for the first time, based on a lectotype here designated. The genus has an uncertain taxonomic position. Originally, it was placed in Lycosidae, while it is currently considered a Pisauridae (Pisaurinae). It includes only two species known from the Western Himalayas, of which the type species remains known only from the females and S. affinis Caporiacco, 1935, which is known from a juvenile only. An uncommon behavioral feature of these spiders is the attachment of egg cocoons to the spinnerets like in the Lycosidae. The absence of the male does not allow us to clarify the taxonomic assignment of this enigmatic genus.

 

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