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| Allocosa marindia Simó, Lise, Pompozzi & Laborda, 2017 Living specimen of Allocosa marindia sp. nov. from Playa Pascual, San José, Uruguay. |
Abstract
Three species of the genus Allocosa Banks, 1900 from southern South America are redescribed: Allocosa alticeps (Mello-Leitão, 1944), A. brasiliensis (Petrunkevitch, 1910) and A. senex (Mello-Leitão, 1945). The female of A. senex is described for the first time and the species is revalidated. A new species, Allocosa marindia sp. nov. from southern Uruguay and southern Brazil is described. The new species is distinguished by the flattened terminal apophysis of the male bulb and the conspicuous pointed projections on the posterior margin of the female epigynum. The species inhabits in sandy estuarine and oceanic coasts with psammophile vegetation.
Keywords: Araneae, Neotropical, wolf spiders, redescription, new species
Allocosa marindia
Etymology. The specific epithet is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality, where, for a long time,
several studies on Uruguayan wolf spiders have been developed.
Distribution. Southern Uruguay and coastal Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Taxonomy
Lycosidae Sundevall, 1833
Allocosinae Dondale, 1986
Allocosa Banks, 1900.
Type species by monotypy, A. funerea (Hentz, 1844)
• Allocosa marindia sp. nov.
• Allocosa brasiliensis (Petrunkevitch, 1910)
• Allocosa senex (Mello-Leitão, 1945) revalidated
• Allocosa alticeps (Mello-Leitão, 1944)
Miguel Simó, Arno A. Lise, Gabriel Pompozzi and Álvaro Laborda. 2017. On the Taxonomy of southern South American Species of the Wolf Spider Genus Allocosa (Araneae: Lycosidae: Allocosinae). Zootaxa. 4216(3); 261–278. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4216.3.4
