General Information

COMMON NAMES: Wolf Spider TRADITIONAL NAMES: Mangamanga (PK) GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: ? - Tonga - ?Cooks COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native?, Introduced?; Land, lowlands; on ground in open grassy areas KEY FEATURES: xxx BodyL: CEPHALOTHORAX: Yellow-brown with four dark longitudinal stripes, two of them narrow and marginal, two broad, flanking median yellow-brown area. ABDOMEN: Yellow-brown with dark median stripe in front half, posterior to this several short transverse dark bars; “shoulders” dark. Abdomen sometimes uniform dark grey. LEGS: Yellow-brown proximally to brown distally. Spiny, with small brown spots at bases of spines. EYES: Eight, four small ones in front row, 2nd row two large, 3rd row two large. WEB: None.

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present    Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
					P

Northern Group:
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
			P

Lycosa tongatabuensis QQJB (Strand, 1911)
Query: QQJB - specimens J.Beatty 2002, species needs revision

SYNONYMS: Tarentula tongatabuensis

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; CHELICERATA; ARACHNIDA; Araneae (=Araneida); Araneomorphae; LYCOSIDAE

Vouchers:
Aitutaki: 5 immature "possibly this species, the cheliceral teeth agree" (BJM60), JBeatty says ID needs to be checked (pers.comm.2001). Pukapuka: specimen+photo, 3/2004, Wale, G.McCormack, ID J.Beatty from specimen PK41 as Lycosa tongatabuensis female, 3/2005.

References:
Special Reference: Marples, B.J. 1960. Spiders from some Pacific Islands, part IV The Cook Islands and Niue. Pacific Science. v.XIV:382-388.

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM02, zupM05a, zD02

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