Venatrix furcillata

Venatrix furcillata, one of the wolf spiders, is a mid sized spider found in eastern Australia. The body length of the female is up to 13 mm, the male 9 mm. The abdomen has distinctive tapering markings. Sometimes noted in suburban gardens and lawns. It lives in a simple burrow, but may be seen migrating in large numbers to a communal web, an unusual feature for wolf spiders. The grey coloured spherical egg sac is around 6 mm in diameter, carried by the female. Eggs are 45 to 60 in number, 0.8 mm in diameter. Prey is ground dwelling insects.[1][2][3][4] The spider has been identified as occurring in Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria.

Little wolf spider
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Lycosidae
Genus: Venatrix
Species:
V. furcillata
Binomial name
Venatrix furcillata
L.Koch, 1867
Synonyms
  • Lycosa furcillata L. Koch, 1867: 201-202.
  • Lycosa furcillata L. Koch.- Koch (1877a): 903-906, plate 78, Figs 1A-B, 2A-B.
  • Lycosa furcillata L. Koch.- Rainbow, 1911: 268.
  • Allocosa furcillata (L. Koch).- Roewer, 1955c: 206.
  • Allocosa furcillata L. Koch.- Rack, 1961: 37.
  • Lycosa furcillata L. Koch.- McKay, 1973: 379.
  • Lycosa furcillata L. Koch.- McKay, 1974a: 15-18, Figs 3C-D, K-M.
  • Lycosa furcillata L. Koch.- McKay, 1985b: 77.
  • Lycosa furcillata L. Koch.- Platnick, 1993: 487.
  • Venatrix furcillata (L. Koch).- Framenau & Vink, 2001: 957-959, Figs 36A-D, 37.

See also

References
  1. Australian Spiders in Colour - Ramon Mascord. 1970 SBN 589 07065 7, page 108
  2. Ron Atkinson. "Wolf Spider". FindaSpider.org.au. Retrieved February 9, 2020.
  3. "Venatrix furcillata (L. Koch, 1867)". Atlas of Living Australia. Retrieved February 9, 2020.
  4. Volker W. Framenau. "Venatrix furcillata (L. Koch, 1867)". lycosidae.info. Retrieved February 9, 2020.


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