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A Survey of East Palaearctic Lycosidae (Aranei). II. Genus Acantholycosa F Arthropoda Selecta 12 (2): 101148 © ARTHROPODA SELECTA, 2003 A survey of East Palaearctic Lycosidae (Aranei). II. Genus Acantholycosa F. Dahl, 1908 and related new genera Îáçîð âîñòî÷íî-ïàëåàðêòè÷åñêèõ ïàóêîâ-âîëêîâ (Aranei: Lycosidae). II. Ðîä Acantholycosa F. Dahl, 1908 è áëèçêèå òàêñîíû Yuri M. Marusik1, Galina N. Azarkina2 & Seppo Koponen3 Þ.Ì. Ìàðóñèê1, Ã.Í. Àçàðêèíà2 è Ñ. Êîïîíåí3 ¹ Institute for Biological Problems of the North, Portovaya Str. 18, Magadan 685000 Russia. E-mail: [email protected] ² Institute for Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Frunze Str. 11, Novosibirsk 630091 Russia. E-mail: [email protected] 3 Zoological Museum, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku Finland. E-mail: [email protected] ¹ Èíñòèòóò áèîëîãè÷åñêèõ ïðîáëåì Ñåâåðà ÄÂÎ ÐÀÍ, Ïîðòîâàÿ 18, Ìàãàäàí 685000 Ðîññèÿ. ² Èíñòèòóò ñèñòåìàòèêè è ýêîëîãèè æèâîòíûõ ÑÎ ÐÀÍ, óë. Ôðóíçå 11, Íîâîñèáèðñê 630091 Ðîññèÿ. KEY WORDS: spiders, Aranei, Lycosidae, Acantholycosa, East Palaearctic, revision, new species, new genera, new combinations, new synonymy. ÊËÞ×ÅÂÛÅ ÑËÎÂÀ: ïàóêè, Aranei, Lycosidae, Acantholycosa, âîñòî÷íàÿ Ïàëåàðêòèêà, ðèâèçèÿ, íîâûå âèäû, íîâûå ðîäà, íîâûå êîìáèíàöèè, íîâàÿ ñèíîíèìèÿ. ABSTRACT: A survey of the spider genus Acan- per flow), S. manchurica sp.n. (#$, Maritime Prov.). tholycosa (type species Lycosa sudetica L. Koch, 1875 Two new synonyms have been found: Acantholycosa = A. norvegica) in Asia reveals that it is represented in altaica Savelyeva, 1972 syn.n. = A. lignaria (Clerck, East Palaearctic by 24 species (26 in Holarctic). Seven- 1757) and Acantholycosa triangulata Yu & Song, 1988 teen new species of Acantholycosa are described: A. syn.n. = Mongolicosa pseudoferruginea (Schenkel, altaiensis sp.n. (#$), A. dudkoromani sp.n. (#$), A. 1936). In addition one more genus Pyrenecosa gen.n. dudkorum sp.n. ($), A. katunensis sp.n. (#), A. khakas- was described for three species distributed in SW Eu- sica sp.n. (#), A. kurchumensis sp.n. ($), A. levinae rope, namely P. pyrenaea (Simon, 1876) comb.n., P. sp.n. (#$), A. logunovi sp.n. (#$), A. mordkovitchi rupicola (Dufour, 1821) comb.n. (type species), and P. sp.n. (#$), A. paraplumalis sp.n. (#$), A. petrophila spinosa (Denis, 1938) comb.n. all ex Acantholycosa. sp.n. (#), A. plumalis sp.n. (#$), A. sayanensis sp.n. The male of S. subsolana (Kulczyñski, 1907) is de- (#), A. spinembolus sp.n. (#), A. zinchenkoi sp.n. (#$) scribed here for the first time. (all from Altai and adjacent Russia), A. oligerae sp.n. (#$) and A. sundukovi sp.n. (#) (both from Maritime ÐÅÇÞÌÅ: Èçó÷åíèå ïàóêîâ ðîäà Acantholycosa Prov. of Russia). Seven other species occurring in Asia (òèïîâîé âèä Lycosa sudetica L. Koch, 1875) â Àçèè are illustrated: A. aborigenica Zyuzin & Marusik, 1988, ïîçâîëèëî âûÿâèòü 24 âèäà (26 âèäîâ â Ãîëàðêòèêå). A. azheganovae (Lobanova, 1978) comb.n. ex. Alope- Îïèñàíî 17 íîâûõ âèäîâ ðîäà Acantholycosa: A. cosa, A. azyuzini Marusik et al., 1996, A. baltoroi (Capo- altaiensis sp.n. (#$), A. dudkoromani sp.n. (#$), A. riacco, 1935), A. lignaria (Clerck, 1757), A. norvegica dudkorum sp.n. ($), A. katunensis sp.n. (#), A. khakas- (Thorell, 1872) and A. sterneri (Marusik, 1993). It was sica sp.n. (#), A. kurchumensis sp.n. ($), A. levinae found that some species attributed to Acantholycosa are, sp.n. (#$), A. logunovi sp.n. (#$), A. mordkovitchi in fact, not closely related to the generotype, A. norveg- sp.n. (#$), A. paraplumalis sp.n. (#$), A. petrophila ica, and therefore two new genera are described for sp.n. (#), A. plumalis sp.n. (#$), A. sayanensis sp.n. Asian species: Mongolicosa gen.n. with 6 species: M. (#), A. spinembolus sp.n. (#), A. zinchenkoi sp.n. (#$) pseudoferruginea (Schenkel, 1936) comb.n. ex. Par- (âñå èç Àëòàÿ è ïðèëåæàùèõ ðàéîíîâ), A. oligerae dosa, M. buryatica sp.n. (#$) (Buryatia), M. glupovi sp.n. (#$) è A. sundukovi sp.n. (#) (îáà èç Ëàçîâñêîãî sp.n. (#$, type species, Altai and adjacent Russia), M. çàïîâåäíèêà, Ïðèìîðüÿ). Ñåìü äðóãèõ âèäîâ gobiensis sp.n. ($, South Gobi Aimak), M. mongolensis îáèòàþùèõ â Àçèè ïðîèëëþñòðèðîâàíû: A. abo- sp.n. (#$, Central Mongolia), M. songi sp.n. ($, Mon- rigenica Zyuzin & Marusik, 1988, A. azheganovae golia and probably Xinjiang), and Sibirocosa gen.n. with five species: S. sibirica (Kulczyñski, 1908) comb.n. (Lobanova, 1978) comb.n. ex. Alopecosa, A. azyuzini and S. subsolana (Kulczyñski, 1907) comb.n. both ex. Marusik et al., 1996, A. baltoroi (Caporiacco, 1935), A. Acantholycosa, S. alpina sp.n. ($, S. Kazakhstan), S. lignaria (Clerck, 1757), A. norvegica (Thorell, 1872) è kolymensis sp.n. (#$, type species, Kolyma River up- A. sterneri (Marusik, 1993).  õîäå èññëåäîâàíèé áûëî îáíàðóæåíî ÷òî ÷àñòü âèäîâ îòíîñèìûõ ðàíåå Printed in 2004. ê Acantholycosa, èìåþò ìàëî îáùåãî ñ òèïîâûì 102 Yuri M. Marusik, Galina N. Azarkina & Seppo Koponen âèäîì ðîäà, A. norvegica, è ïîýòîìó äëÿ íèõ îïèñàíû & Marusik, 1988, A. triangulata Yu & Song, 1988 and äâà íîâûõ ðîäà: Mongolicosa gen.n. ñ 6 âèäàìè: M. A. altaica Marusik et al., 1996) or transferred from pseudoferruginea (Schenkel, 1936) (Ñ Êèòàé) comb.n. Pardosa (sterneri Marusik, 1993 and solituda Levi & ex. Pardosa, M. buryatica sp.n. (Áóðÿòèÿ), M. glupovi Levi, 1951) by Kronestedt & Marusik [2002]. sp.n. (#$, òèïîâîé âèä, Àëòàé è ïðèëåæàùèå òåð- Although Wunderlich [1984] synonymised Acan- ðèòîðèè), M. gobiensis sp.n. ($, Þæíî-Ãîáèéñêèé tholycosa with Pardosa C. L. Koch, 1847, this act was Àéìàê, Ìîíãîëèÿ), M. mongolensis sp.n. (#$, öåí- not accepted by subsequent workers [see Zyuzin & òðàëüíàÿ Ìîíãîëèÿ), M. songi sp.n. ($, Ìîíãîëèÿ è Marusik, 1988; Buchar & Thaler, 1993]. The reasons for âîçìîæíî Ñèíüöçÿí), è Sibirocosa gen.n. ñ ïÿòüþ synonymisation were presence of more than 3 pairs of âèäàìè: S. sibirica (Kulczyñski, 1908) comb.n., S. ventral tibial spines in several Pardosa, and similarity of subsolana (Kulczyñski, 1907) comb.n. îáà ex. Acan- copulatory organs. The problem in differentiating Par- tholycosa, S. alpina sp.n. ($, Þ Êàçàõñòàí), S. koly- dosa and Acantholycosa (cf. Wunderlich, 1984) lies to mensis sp.n. (#$, òèïîâîé âèä, âåðõîâüÿ Êîëûìû), S. our mind not in Acantholycosa itself, but in the concept manchurica sp.n. (#$, Ïðèìîðüå). Îáíàðóæåíî äâå of Pardosa which seems not to be a monophyletic group. íîâûå ñèíîíèìèè: Acatholycosa altaica Savelyeva, For example some of the species earlier attributed to 1972 syn.n. = A. lignaria (Clerck, 1757) è Acatholycosa Pardosa (fidelis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872), triangulata Yu & Song, 1988 syn.n. = Mongolicosa quadrifera (Gravely, 1924) now belong to Wadicosa pseudoferruginea (Schenkel, 1936).  äîïîëíåíèå Zyuzin, 1985, a member of a separate subfamily Wadi- îïèñàí íîâûé ðîä Pyrenecosa gen.n. äëÿ òð¸õ âèäîâ cosinae. îáèòàþùèõ â ÞÇ Åâðîïå, à èìåííî P. pyrenaea According to the latest catalogue [Platnick, 2002] (Simon, 1876) comb.n., P. rupicola (Dufour, 1821) the spider genus Acantholycosa includes 13 species and comb.n. (òèïîâîé âèä) è P. spinosa (Denis, 1938) one subspecies. All species in the catalogue are known comb.n. âñå ex Acantholycosa. Âïåðâûå îïèñàí ñàìåö only from Eurasia. Counting two more species assigned S. subsolana (Kulczyñski, 1907). to this genus by Kronestedt and Marusik [2002], Acan- tholycosa encompass 15 species and one subspecies. Introduction New transfers (A. solituda) extend the known range of the genus to the Nearctic, and therefore the genus has The first member of Acantholycosa was described Holarctic distribution. by Clerck in 1757 sub Araneus lignarius. In the 19th This project was begun with the goal of describing century eight more species belonging to this genus were three new species collected in Altai, but intensive col- described from Europe and Siberia. Dahl [1908] was lecting efforts by entomologists from ISEA in the East first to observe that three European species had more Kazakhstan Area, Altai, West Sayan Mt. Range and than three pairs of ventral tibial spines on leg I and he adjacent areas, and special search of the collections of described a new genus for them, Acantholycosa. For several museums and private collections reveals the more than two decades after the transfer of Lycosa very high diversity of the genus in Siberia and the sudetica L.Koch, 1875, L. lignaria and Pardosa pedes- Russian Far East. We therefore decided to survey all of tris Simon, 1876 to Acantholycosa by Dahl [1908], the species known from the eastern Palaearctic, and these species were the only members of the genus. The especially northern Asia. first addition to the genus was made by Giltay [1932]. He described A. nigripalpis, later transferred to Pardosa. Methods Another new species, A. strandi Denis, 1938, fell in synonymy with A. pedestris. In 1936 Charitonov added The material treated here came to us bit by bit over a three species to this genus (A. beklemischevi Chari- period of years. The various species were illustrated at differ- tonov, 1936, A. fedotovi Charitonov, 1936, and A. ent times and therefore style of the figures are not identical spasskyi Charitonov, 1936). Later all these species were throughout the paper. Illustrations were made using both reflected and transmitted light microscope with drawing de- found to be a synonyms of A. norvegica. After Chari- vices. Microphotographs were made with SEM Jeol JSM- tonov, additional species were attributed to Acantholy- 5200 in the Zoological Museum, University of Turku. All cosa by Denis [1950, 1953]. He transferred three spe- measurements are given in millimeters. A few words are cies from the mountains of western Europe which had abbreviated as follows: d
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