Dolomedes Latreille, 1804

Cruz Da Silva, Estevam L., Gibbons, Anne & Sierwald, Petra, 2015, Description of the male of Dolomedes raptoroides Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004 (Araneae: Lycosoidea: Pisauridae), Zootaxa 3946 (1), pp. 139-145 : 139-140

Dolomedes Latreille, 1804

Dolomedes Latreille, 1804: 135

Type species. Araneus fimbriatus Clerck, 1757 , by subsequent designation Walckenaer (1805).

Diagnosis. Members of Dolomedes share similarities with members of the genera Nilus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876 and Bradystichus Simon, 1884 . In habitus, Dolomedes specimens resemble those of the genus Nilus ( Sierwald, 1983, sub Thalassius ; Jäger, 2011), but can be unequivocally distinguished by the following characters: Dolomedes with four retromarignal cheliceral teeth (three in Nilus , four in Bradystichus ), presence of the retrolateral tibial apophysis (absent in Nilus , present in Bradystichus ), and the nearly straight anterior eye row (strongly recurved in Nilus ). While unmistakably differing in habitus, with regards to eye pattern, cheliceral teeth and features of the female and male copulatory organs ( Platnick & Forster 1993), members of Dolomedes are similar to Bradystichus from New Caledonia. In both Bradystichus and Dolomedes , the female copulatory ducts (CD) are elongated forming loops and the spermathecae are small (named accessory bulb by Carico 1973: 462, fig. 51, Sierwald 1989). Members of Dolomedes can be distinguished from Bradystichus by having femora I, II and III with five prolateral and retrolateral spines respectively (three to four in Bradystichus ) and base of the median apophysis of the Dolomedes male palpal organ lacking a hooked projection (present in Bradystichus ; Platnick & Forster 1993: fig. 24, Carico 1973: 458, fig. 28).

Description. For complete description, see Carico (1973).

Distribution. Worldwide (World Spider Catalog 2014).