Notes on Indian wolf spiders: IV. Transfer of species previously included in the genera Crocodilosa Caporiacco, 1947 and Geolycosa Montgomery, 1904 (Araneae: Lycosidae)

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  Notes on Indian wolf spiders: IV. Transfer of species previously included in the genera Crocodilosa Caporiacco, 1947 and Geolycosa Montgomery, 1904 (Araneae: Lycosidae) The enigmatic Crocodilosa Caporiacco, 1947 sensu lato currently consists of five nominal species distributed in Africa and Asia (World Spider Catalog 2026). It was established for C. kittenbergeri Caporiacco, 1947, with a superficial generic diagnosis relying only on somatic features such as length of eye rows, leg spination and relative leg lengths (Caporiacco 1947). Roewer (1955), following Caporiacco’s (1947) generic diagnosis, drastically increased the number of Crocodilosa species by transferring several species from other lycosid genera, but most of these subsequently added species were later reassigned to their appropriate genera (World Spider Catalog 2026), highlighting the need for a re-examination of the type species and remaining congeners to clarify the validity of Crocodilosa. At present, the genus ha...

First chance to see: New jumping-spider species from Batanta, Indonesia (Araneae, Salticidae, Euophryini)

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First chance to see: New jumping-spider species from Batanta, Indonesia (Araneae, Salticidae, Euophryini)

Abstract

The first spider records of Batanta, Birie, and Arefi islands, Raja Ampat, Indonesia are presented in this study. Three new species in the genus Canama Simon, 1903, Canama horobi sp. nov. (male), Canama limagigi sp. nov. (male) and Canama wanita sp. nov. (female) are described. Two Indonesian salticids, originally placed in Bathippus Thorell, 1892 and known from their original descriptions only, Bathippus dentiferellus Strand, 1911 and Bathippus seltuttensis Strand, 1911, are redescribed and illustrated. Due to their morphological similarity to the type species, three new combinations have been proposed: Canama dentiferellus (Strand, 1911), comb. nov., Canama seltuttensis (Strand, 1911), comb. nov. and Canama dilanians (Thorell, 1881), comb. nov. To confirm the phylogenetic placement of the new species, we carried out a small phylogenetic analysis with three genetic markers: 28S, ND1/16S, and COI, with a final alignment of 3314 nucleotides. Both maximum likelihood and Bayesian results confirmed their firm placement within Canama. With 10 new sequences, 49 original images and a distribution map.

Takács-Vágó H, Mayer ÁdámS, Szabó K, Kovács T, Szűts T (2026) First chance to see: New jumping-spider species from Batanta, Indonesia (Araneae, Salticidae, Euophryini). ZooKeys 1293: 241-263. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1293.190325