Artoria schizocoides Framenau & Hebets, 2007

Do Prado, André W., Baptista, Renner Luiz Cerqueira & Framenau, Volker W., 2024, Taxonomy of the wolf spider genus Artoria in Western Australia (Araneae, Lycosidae, Artoriinae), Zootaxa 5547 (1), pp. 1-81 : 59-62

Artoria schizocoides Framenau & Hebets, 2007

Figs 26 , 32–33

Artoria schizocoides Framenau & Hebets, 2007: 96–99 , figs 4–11.

Type material. Holotype male, Bluff Knoll , Stirling Range National Park, Western Australia, AUSTRALIA, 34º23’S, 118º15’E, 19 March 1996, S. Barrett, site 230, wet pitfall trap ( WAM T53800 ) . Paratypes: 1 male, 4 females, Bluff Knoll , Stirling Range National Park, Western Australia, AUSTRALIA, 34º22’56”S, 118º14’55”E, 7 September 1995, S. Barrett, site 214, 900 m, pitfall traps ( WAM T53799 , T53875 ). All examined .

Other material examined (207 males, 49 females, 11 juveniles in 55 records): AUSTRALIA. Western Australia : 1 male, 1 female, ALCOA mine, NE of Jarrahdale , 32º17’S, 116º08’E ( WAM T44717 ) ; 9 males, 1 female, Dwellingup , 32º43’S, 116º04’E ( WAM T6871634 ) ; 26 males, 2 females, same locality ( WAM T53771 ) ; 1 female, Dwellingup, Curara Block , 32º43’S, 116º04’E ( WAM T53776 ) ; 1 male, Dwellingup , same locality ( WAM T53763 ) ; 2 males, Dwellingup , same locality ( WAM T53762 ) ; 1 male, Dwellingup, Plavins Plots , plot 14, 32º43’S, 116º04’E ( WAM T53767 ) ; 1 female, same locality ( WAM T53770 ) ; 2 males, same locality ( WAM T53772 ) ; 1 female, same locality ( WAM T53775 ) ; 1 male, same locality ( WAM T53769 ) ; 3 males, 1 female, same locality ( WAM T53768 ) ; 3 males, 2 females, Dwellingup, Plavins Plots , plot 37, 32º43’S, 116º04’E ( WAM T53764 ) ; 1 male, same locality ( WAM T53766 ) ; 2 males, Dwellingup , plot 40, 32º43’S, 116º04’E ( WAM T53765 ) ; 1 male, same locality ( WAM T53774 ) ; 1 female, same locality ( WAM T53773 ) ; 1 male, Forth River , 45 km SE Northcliffe, 34º50’S, 116º26’E ( WAM T65102 ) ; 1 female, Jarrahdale , 32º20’S, 116º03’E ( WAM T55765 ) ; 1 male, same locality ( WAM T55764 ) ; 1 male, Jarrahdale, N and NW of, Alcoa mine site & forest, 34º54’S, 117º55’E ( WAM 97 /583) ; 1 male, same locality ( WAM 97 /584) ; 1 male, Manjimup , 34º15’S, 116º9’E ( WAM T53778 ) ; 1 female, same locality ( WAM T53779 ) ; 4 males, same locality ( WAM T53777 ) ; 1 male, Mt Cooke , 32º25’S, 116º18’E ( WAM T53780 ) ; 1 female, same locality ( WAM T53781 ) ; 1 female, same locality ( WAM T53782 ) ; 1 male, same locality ( WAM T62483 ) ; 1 male, same locality ( WAM 99 /88) ; 3 males, same locality ( WAM T65595 ) ; 9 males, 2 females, same locality ( WAM T65097 ) ; 1 male, same locality ( WAM 98 /2168) ; 1 male, same locality ( WAM T70517 ) ; 1 male, Mt Lindesay , 34º50’30’’S, 117º18’21’’E ( WAM T53807 ) ; 2 males, Mt Lindesay , 34º50’23’’S, 117º18’22’’E ( WAM T53808 ) ; 8 males, Mt Lindesay , 34º50’S, 117º19’E ( WAM T53809 ) ; 51 males, 3 females, Mt Lindesay , 34º50’30’’S, 117º18’21’’E ( WAM T53810 ) ; 1 male, 1 female, Pemberton, The Cascades, 34º29’S, 116º03’E ( WAM 99 /89-90) ; 3 males, 1 female, Porongurup National Park , 34º40’56’’S, 117º51’59’’E ( WAM T53805 ) ; 1 male, near Quinninup , 34º26’S, 116º15’E ( WAM T65093 ) ; 3 males, Reynolds Bridge , 32º32’13’’S, 116º03’19’’E ( WAM T70830 ) ; 4 males, Stirling Range National Park, Bluff Knoll , 34º22’37’’S, 118º15’10’’E ( WAM T53801 ) ; 1 male, same locality 34º22’37’’S, 118º15’10’E ( WAM T53802 ) ; 1 female, same locality ( WAM 69531 ) ; 1 male, same locality ( WAM T162501 ) ; 1 female, same locality ( WAM T162500 ) ; 14 males, 1 female, Stirling Range National Park, Bluff Knoll , 34º22’56’’S, 118º14’55’’E ( WAM T53803 ) ; 1 male, same locality ( WAM T162506 ) ; 1 male, Stirling Range National Park, Mondurup Peak , 34º24’18’’S, 117º48’44’’E ( WAM T53804 ) ; 6 males, 6 females, Stirling Range National Park , S face of Pyongurup Peak, 34º22’17’’S, 118º19’20’’E ( WAM 99 /91–102) ; 29 males, 14 females, 7 juv., Stirling Range National Park, S face of Pyongurup Peak , 34º22’17’’S, 118º19’20’’E ( WAM T53761 ) ; 1 male, Sues Bridge , 50 km SW Nannup, 34º05’S, 115º40’E ( WAM T65136 ) ; 1 male, 1 female, The Cascades, Stirling Range National Park , 34º22’29’’S, 118º14’17’’E ( WAM T53832 ) .

Diagnosis. Males of A. schizocoides have unique brush-like setae on the tibiae for the first pair of legs ( Fig. 32A, B ; Framenau & Hebets 2007: fig. 4). The epigyne of females remotely resembles that of A. cingulipes , however, in A. schizocoides it is much smaller and darker in colorations.

Description. For a detailed description see Framenau & Hebets (2007) (see also Figs 32A–E , 33A–D ).

Life history and habitat preferences. Most records of adult females and males are from between June and September, with occasional reports from October and November. The species is therefore winter to spring mature. The species seems to prefer dry to moderately moist forests in hilly to mountainous regions ( Framenau & Hebets 2007).

Distribution. South-western Western Australia, north as far as Perth and east as far as the Stirling Range National Park ( Fig. 26 ).

Figures

FIGURE 26. Distribution of Artoria pileata sp. nov., Artoria pinnata sp. nov., Artoria plicata sp. nov., Artoria retorta sp. nov., and Artoria schizocoides Framenau & Hebets, 2007.

FIGURE 32. Artoria schizocoides Framenau & Hebets, 2007, male: A, dorsal habitus; B, ventral habitus; C–E, left pedipalp (C, ventral view; D, retrolateral view; E, embolic division, ventral view). A–D, (WAM T162506); E, (WAM T162501). Scale bars: A, B, 2.0 mm; C–E 0.2 mm.

FIGURE 33. Artoria schizocoides Framenau & Hebets, 2007, female: A, dorsal habitus; B, ventral habitus; C, epigyne; D, internal genitalia, dorsal view. A–D, (WAM T55578). Scale bars: A, B, 2.0 mm; C, D, 0.2 mm.