Artoria
| Artoria | |
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| Artoria sp. | |
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| A. mckayi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Lycosidae |
| Subfamily: | Artoriinae |
| Genus: | Artoria Thorell[1] |
Artoria is a genus of spiders in the family Lycosidae. It was first described in 1877 by Tamerlan Thorell,[1][2] and the type species is Artoria parvula.[3] In 1960, Roewer erected the genera Artoriella and Trabeola.[3][4] However, in 2002, Volker Framenau reviewed Artoria and synonymised both these genera with Artoria.[3][5]
Distribution
[edit]Species of this genus are widespread throughout south-east Asia and found in all states and territories of Australia.[3]
Description
[edit]Artoria are small to medium-sized wolf spiders with a total length of approximately 3 to 10 mm, with males slightly smaller than females. The carapace is brown to black with a darker radial pattern, and light median and lateral bands are sometimes present.[6]
The abdomen is brown to dark grey, often with a mottled pattern and mostly with a light lanceolate heart mark. The carapace is longer than wide with a straight dorsal profile in lateral view.The head flanks in frontal view are steep in most males but may have a gentle slope in females.[6]
Chelicerae bear three (rarely one or two) promarginal and three (rarely one or two) retromarginal teeth. The labium is as long as or slightly longer than wide.[6]
Taxonomy
[edit]Framenau (2002) regarded the three African species as incertae sedis.[6][5]
Species
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A. grahammilledgei -
A. howqaensis
As of October 2025[update], this genus includes 68 species:[1]
- Artoria aculeata do Prado, Baptista & Framenau, 2024 – Australia (Western Australia, South Australia)
- Artoria albopedipalpis Framenau, 2002 – Australia (Victoria)
- Artoria albopilata (Urquhart, 1893) – Australia (Queensland to South Australia and Tasmania)
- Artoria alta Framenau, 2004 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Artoria amoena (Roewer, 1960) – DR Congo
- Artoria atrata do Prado, Baptista & Framenau, 2024 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Artoria avona Framenau, 2002 – Australia (South Australia, Victoria)
- Artoria barringtonensis Framenau & Baehr, 2018 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Artoria beaury Framenau & Baehr, 2018 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Artoria belfordensis Framenau & Baehr, 2018 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Artoria berenice (L. Koch, 1877) – Australia (Queensland to Tasmania), New Caledonia, Vanuatu
- Artoria bondi Framenau & Baehr, 2018 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Artoria booderee Framenau & Baehr, 2018 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Artoria cingulipes Simon, 1909 – Australia (Western Australia, South Australia)
- Artoria comleroi Framenau & Baehr, 2018 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Artoria corowa Framenau & Baehr, 2018 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Artoria emu do Prado, Baptista & Framenau, 2024 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Artoria equipalus Framenau & Baehr, 2018 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Artoria extraordinaria Framenau & Baehr, 2018 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Artoria falcata do Prado, Baptista & Framenau, 2024 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Artoria flavimana Simon, 1909 – Australia (Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania)
- Artoria gloriosa (Rainbow, 1920) – Australia (Lord Howe Is.)
- Artoria grahammilledgei Framenau & Baehr, 2018 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Artoria hamata Wang, Framenau & Zhang, 2021 – China
- Artoria hebridisiana (Berland, 1938) – Vanuatu
- Artoria helensmithae Framenau & Baehr, 2018 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
- Artoria hospita Vink, 2002 – New Zealand
- Artoria howquaensis Framenau, 2002 – Australia (South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria)
- Artoria impedita (Simon, 1909) – Australia (Western Australia)
- Artoria incrassata do Prado, Baptista & Framenau, 2024 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Artoria inversa do Prado, Baptista & Framenau, 2024 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Artoria kanangra Framenau & Baehr, 2018 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Artoria kerewong Framenau & Baehr, 2018 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Artoria lamellata do Prado, Baptista & Framenau, 2024 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Artoria ligulacea (Qu, Peng & Yin, 2009) – China
- Artoria lineata (L. Koch, 1877) – Australia (South Australia, New South Wales to Tasmania)
- Artoria linnaei Framenau, 2008 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Artoria lycosimorpha Strand, 1909 – South Africa
- Artoria maculatipes (Roewer, 1960) – Namibia
- Artoria maroota Framenau & Baehr, 2018 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Artoria mckayi Framenau, 2002 – Australia (Queensland and South Australia to Tasmania)
- Artoria minima (Berland, 1938) – Vanuatu
- Artoria mungo Framenau & Baehr, 2018 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Artoria munmorah Framenau & Baehr, 2018 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Artoria myallensis Framenau & Baehr, 2018 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Artoria palustris Dahl, 1908 – New Guinea (Indonesia, Papua New Guinea/Bismarck Arch.)
- Artoria parvula Thorell, 1877 – China, Malaysia (peninsula, Borneo), Philippines, Indonesia (Sulawesi), Australia (Northern Territory) (type species)
- Artoria pileata do Prado, Baptista & Framenau, 2024 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Artoria pinnata do Prado, Baptista & Framenau, 2024 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Artoria plicata do Prado, Baptista & Framenau, 2024 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Artoria quadrata Framenau, 2002 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria)
- Artoria retorta do Prado, Baptista & Framenau, 2024 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Artoria schizocoides Framenau & Hebets, 2007 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Artoria segrega Vink, 2002 – New Zealand
- Artoria separata Vink, 2002 – New Zealand
- Artoria slatyeri Framenau & Baehr, 2018 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Artoria strepera Framenau & Baehr, 2018 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Artoria subhamata Wang & Zhang, 2022 – China
- Artoria taeniata do Prado, Baptista & Framenau, 2024 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Artoria taeniifera Simon, 1909 – Australia (Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales)
- Artoria terania Framenau & Baehr, 2018 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Artoria thorelli (Berland, 1929) – Samoa, Marquesas Is.
- Artoria triangularis Framenau, 2002 – Australia (South Australia and Queensland to Tasmania)
- Artoria trifida do Prado, Baptista & Framenau, 2024 – Australia (Western Australia, South Australia)
- Artoria ulrichi Framenau, 2002 – Australia (New South Wales, Victoria)
- Artoria victoriensis Framenau, Gotch & Austin, 2006 – Australia (South Australia and Queensland to Tasmania)
- Artoria weiweii Wang, Zhang & Peng, 2019 – Malaysia (Borneo)
- Artoria wilkiei Framenau & Baehr, 2018 – Australia (Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Genus Artoria". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-02.
- ^ T. Thorell (1877). "Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. I. Ragi di Selebes raccolti nel 1874 dal Dott. O. Beccari". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (in Italian). 10: 341-634 [531]. ISSN 1122-6447. Wikidata Q122829409.
- ^ a b c d "Genus Artoria Thorell, 1877". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government. Retrieved 2023-09-26.
- ^ Roewer, C.F. 1960. Araneae Lycosiformia 2. (Lycosidae). Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba Fasc. 519–1040. 55 pp. [563,582]
- ^ a b Volker W. Framenau (2002). "Review of the wolf spider genus Artoria Thorell (Araneae : Lycosidae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 16 (2): 209-235 [210]. doi:10.1071/IT01028. ISSN 1445-5226. Wikidata Q59678080.
- ^ a b c d Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.S.; Haddad, C.R.; Foord, S.H.; Lotz, L.N. (2021). The Lycosidae of South Africa. Version 1: part 1 (A-H). South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide. p. 34. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6324709.
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