Hogna ferox (Lucas, 1838)

Crespo, Luis C., Silva, Isamberto, Enguidanos, Alba, Cardoso, Pedro & Arnedo, Miquel, 2022, Island hoppers: Integrative taxonomic revision of Hogna wolf spiders (Araneae, Lycosidae) endemic to the Madeira islands with description of a new species, ZooKeys 1086, pp. 84-135 : 84

Hogna ferox (Lucas, 1838)

Arctosa maderana Roewer, 1960: 604-605, fig. 334a (f), fig. 334 b (m). Syn. nov. (see WSC 2021 for a complete list of synonymies)

Types.

Holotype: 1 ♀ (with 1 paratype ♂ in vial), leg. Roewer, stored at SMF, collection number 9903912. Examined.

Material examined.

Gran Canaria • Gando , 1 ♂ ( SMF25851 ), X.1961, leg. G. Shmidt; La Rosetas, 28.12196°N, 15.68662°W, 4 ♀♀ (CRBALC0586, CRBALC0602: LC329, CRBALC0706, CRBALC0719) , 21.IV.2018, leg. L. Crespo & A. Bellvert; Playa del Inglés, 1 ♀ ( SMF25422 ), 1970, leg. G. Schmidt; San Sebastian, 1 ♀ ( SMF29107 ), IV.1974, leg. G. Schmidt. La Gomera • Lomada near San Sebastian , 1 ♀ ( SMF29134 ), IV.1974, leg. Wild. Tenerife • La Orotava, 28.36666°N, 16.51666°W, 1 ♂ (SMF2234) , 1871, leg. Grenacher & Noll. Tunisia • Jendouba, 1 ♀ ( SMF63576 ), X.1995, leg. G. Eichler; (no sampling information), 1 ♀ ( SMF37118 ). (No country or sampling information) • 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀ and 1 juvenile ( SMF67996 ) .

Justification of the synonymy.

After its original description, the endemic species Arctosa maderana Roewer, 1960 was never again recorded in the archipelago of Madeira, despite extensive sampling through several biodiversity inventory projects ( Crespo et al. 2014a; Boieiro et al. 2018; Malumbres-Olarte et al. 2020). We identified the type female and the paratype male as H. ferox (Lucas, 1838). Hogna ferox has a widespread distribution throughout the Mediterranean, being present in the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, and the neighbouring archipelago of the Canary Islands. However, it has never been reported in Madeira, and after examination of specimens, we propose that A. maderana Roewer, 1960 is a junior synonym of H. ferox (Lucas, 1838) and should be removed from the Madeira archipelago fauna.