Venatrix

Also known as huntress spiders

Venatrix is a genus of wolf spiders first described by Carl Friedrich Roewer in 1960.

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Within Vinony's link graph, Venatrix is referenced by 3 other articles, and connects out to Lycosidae, Animalia and Araneae.

Vinony files it under Araneomorphae genera, Lycosidae and Spiders of Asia.

Its subject is documented across 12 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

GENUS

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda
ClassArachnida
OrderAraneae
FamilyLycosidae

Observations761

Observations recorded5,118

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Museum specimens

Specimen records: 114
With media: 10
Family: Lycosidae
Collections: NMV, AM
Recorded in: Australia

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Instance of: taxon
Parent taxon: Lycosidae
Image: Venatrix brisbanae or V. ornatula (16054181481).jpg

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taxon name: Venatrix
taxon rank: genus
topic's main category: Category:Venatrix
Commons category: Venatrix
taxon author citation: Roewer, 1960

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Venatrix is a genus of wolf spiders first described by Carl Friedrich Roewer in 1960.

==Species== , it contains 27 species, all from Australia, with outliers in the Philippines and New Caledonia: Venatrix allopictiventris Framenau & Vink, 2001 Venatrix amnicola Framenau, 2006 Venatrix archookoora Framenau & Vink, 2001 Venatrix arenaris (Hogg, 1906) Venatrix australiensis Framenau & Vink, 2001 Venatrix brisbanae (L. Koch, 1878) Venatrix esposica Framenau & Vink, 2001 Venatrix fontis Framenau & Vink, 2001 Venatrix funesta (C. L. Koch, 1847) Venatrix furcillata (L. Koch, 1867) Venatrix hickmani Framenau & Vink, 2001 Venatrix konei (Berland, 1924) Venatrix koori Framenau & Vink, 2001 Venatrix kosciuskoensis (McKay, 1974) Venatrix lapidosa (McKay, 1974) Venatrix magkasalubonga (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) Venatrix mckayi Framenau & Vink, 2001 Venatrix ornatula (L. Koch, 1877) Venatrix palau Framenau, 2006 Venatrix penola Framenau & Vink, 2001 Venatrix pictiventris (L. Koch, 1877) Venatrix pseudospeciosa Framenau & Vink, 2001 Venatrix pullastra (Simon, 1909) Venatrix roo Framenau & Vink, 2001 Venatrix speciosa (L. Koch, 1877) Venatrix summa (McKay, 1974) Venatrix tinfos Framenau, 2006

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