Dendrolycosa

Dendrolycosa
D. icadia from Australia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pisauridae
Genus: Dendrolycosa
Doleschall, 1859[1]
Type species
D. fusca
Doleschall, 1859
Species

17, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Campostichommides Strand, 1911[2]
  • Dianpisaura Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004[2]

Dendrolycosa is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Doleschall in 1859.[3]

Species

As of September 2025, the genus Dendrolycosa contains 18 species:[1]

  • Dendrolycosa bairdi Jäger, 2011Laos
  • Dendrolycosa bobbiliensis (Reddy & Patel, 1993)India
  • Dendrolycosa cruciata (Roewer, 1955)Tanzania
  • Dendrolycosa duckitti Jäger, 2011 – Laos, Indonesia (Sumatra)
  • Dendrolycosa fusca Doleschall, 1859 – Indonesia (Ambon)
  • Dendrolycosa gitae (Tikader, 1970) – India (mainland, Andaman Islands)
  • Dendrolycosa icadia (L. Koch, 1876)Australia (Queensland)
  • Dendrolycosa kakadu Raven & Hebron, 2018 – Australia (Northern Territory)
  • Dendrolycosa lepida (Thorell, 1890) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
  • Dendrolycosa ornata (Berland, 1924)New Caledonia
  • Dendrolycosa parangbusta (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995)Philippines
  • Dendrolycosa putiana (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) – Philippines
  • Dendrolycosa robusta (Thorell, 1895) – India, Myanmar, China, Laos, Vietnam
  • Dendrolycosa rossi Silva & Griswold, 2013Madagascar
  • Dendrolycosa sahyadriensis Sudhin, Sen & Jäger, 2023 – India
  • Dendrolycosa sierwaldae Jäger, 2011New Guinea
  • Dendrolycosa songi (Zhang, 2000) – China
  • Dendrolycosa yuka Jäger, 2011South Africa

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Dendrolycosa Doleschall, 1859". World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  2. ^ a b Jäger, P. (2011). "Revision of the spider genera Nilus O. Pickard-Cambridge 1876, Sphedanus Thorell 1877 and Dendrolycosa Doleschall 1859 (Araneae: Pisauridae)". Zootaxa. 3046: 10. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3046.1.1.
  3. ^ Doleschall, L. (1859). "Tweede Bijdrage tot de kennis der Arachniden van den Indischen Archipel". Acta Societatis Scientiarum Indica-Neerlandica. 5: 1–60.