Published August 8, 2023 | Version v1
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Wadicosa fidelis

  • 1. Department of Biology, College of Education for Pure Sciences, University of Thi-Qar, Thi-Qar, 64001, Iraq
  • 2. Department of Ecology, College of Science, University of Basrah, Basrah, Iraq

Description

Wadicosa fidelis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

(fig. 6)

Hepner & Paulus, 2009: 343, f. 20–22 (, ); Kronestedt & Zyuzin, 2009: 818, f. 1–20 (, ); Lu et al., 2016: 137, f. 9A–H, 10A–D, 11A–D, 12E–F (, ).

Material examined. 5 , 3 : 1 : Iraq: Thi Qar Province, Ur District, agricultural land, [31°01'42.5" N 46°18'07.1" E], 7.05.2022 (G. A. A. Al-Yacoub) (BNHM); 2 : Iraq: Basrah Province:, Al Khait, Qarmat Ali, agricultural land, [30°36'24.3"N 47°42'58.9"E], 30.04.2022 (S. A. Najim) (BNHM).

Distribution. Macaronesia, North Africa, Southern Europe, Caucasus, Middle East, Central Asia, China, Japan, Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Philippines, Indonesia (Sumatra).

Comment. In Iraq, this species was previously reported from Salahaddin Province (Reimoser, 1913), Baghdad, Karbala (Baker & Ali, 2020) and Basrah (Najim & Al-Hadlag 2022).

Notes

Published as part of Al-Yacoub, G. A. A. & Najim, S. A., 2023, A New Record And А Taxonomic Review With Checklist Of Wolf Spiders (Araneae, Lycosidae) From Iraq, pp. 383-390 in Zoodiversity 57 (5) on pages 386-387, DOI: 10.15407/zoo2023.05.383, http://zenodo.org/record/10830919

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BNHM
Event date
2022-04-30 , 2022-05-07
Verbatim event date
2022-04-30 , 2022-05-07
Scientific name authorship
O. Pickard-Cambridge
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Lycosidae
Genus
Wadicosa
Species
fidelis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Wadicosa fidelis (Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) sec. Al-Yacoub & Najim, 2023

References

  • Hepner, M. & Paulus, H. F. 2009. Contributions on the wolf spider fauna (Araneae, Lycosidae) of Gran Canaria (Spain). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, 14 (8), 339 - 346. http: // doi: 10.13156 / arac. 2009.14.8.339.
  • Kronestedt, T. & Zyuzin, A. A. 2009. Fixation of Lycosa fidelis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 as the type species for the genus Wadicosa Zyuzin, 1985 (Araneae: Lycosidae), with a redescripton of the species. Contributions to Natural History, 12, 813 - 828.
  • Reimoser, E. 1913. Echte Spinnen (Araneae) aus Mesopotamien. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 27, 505 - 506.
  • Baker, I. M. & Ali, H. B. 2020. Taxonomical study of spiders (Order, Araneae) from different localities of Iraq. Iraq Natural History Museum Publication, 38, 1 - 51.
  • Najim, S. A. & Al-Hadlag, K. S. 2022. Diversity of spiders from agro-ecosystem of Basra Province, south of Iraq. Arab Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 5, 129 - 156.