Arctosa lawrencei
species of arachnid
Arctosa lawrencei is a species of spider in the family Lycosidae. It is endemic to South Africa and is commonly known as the Lawrence Arctosa wolf spider.
Distribution
Arctosa lawrencei is known only from Capland (Karoo region) in South Africa.
Description
Conservation
Arctosa lawrencei is listed as Data Deficient for Taxonomic and unknown provenance reasons by the South African National Biodiversity Institute. The status of the species remains obscure, and additional sampling is needed to determine the species' range.
Etymology
The species is named after Reginald Frederick Lawrence, a South African arachnologist who made significant contributions to the study of southern African spiders.
Taxonomy
The species was originally described by Carl Friedrich Roewer in 1960 as Piratosa lawrencei with the type locality given as Capland (Karroo). Marusik and colleagues transferred the species to Arctosa in 2010 based on the resemblance of the genitalia to that of Arctosa. The holotype is housed at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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