Litter Wolf Spiders
Artoria Thorell, 1877
Type species: Artoria parvula Thorell, 1877
Fauna Portal Genus Number: 1782
Artoria includes small, litter-dwelling wolf spiders with indistinct brownish colouration. They differ from the similar genus Artoriopsis in the lack of a distinct light marginal band on the carapace and the distinctive abdominal pattern of that genus.
abscondita
aculeata
albopedipalpis
albopilata
alta
ancorata
atrata
avona
barringtonensis
beaury
belfordensis
berenice
bicornuta
bondi
booderee
catinata
cingulipes
coclearia
comleroi
corowa
cucurbita
cunicularia
emu
equipalus
extraordinaria
falcata
flavimana
FP-11765
FP-13189
geniculata
globula
gloriosa
grahammilledgei
halterata
hamifera
helensmithae
howquaensis
impedita
incrassata
inversa
kanangra
kerewong
laciniata
lamellata
limitata
lineata
lingulata
linnaei
longinqua
maroota
mckayi
mungo
munmorah
myallensis
nasuta
orcina
parvula
pedroi
pileata
pinnata
plicata
proboscidea
quadrata
reniformis
retorta
scapulata
schizocoides
semicircularis
serpentidens
slatyeri
strepera
superelliptica
taeniata
taeniifera
tenuis
terania
triangularis
trifida
ulrichi
vectis
velata
victoriensis
werrikimbe
wilkiei
Publications
Framenau VW (2002): Review of the wolf spider genus Artoria Thorell (Araneae: Lycosidae). Invertebrate Systematics. 16: 209 - 235
Framenau VW (2005): The wolf spider genus Artoria Thorell in Australia: new synonymies and generic transfers (Araneae, Lycosidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum. 22: 265 - 292DOIWEB
Framenau VW (2008): A new wolf spider species of the genus Artoria from Western Australia (Araneae: Lycosidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum. 24: 363 - 368
Framenau VW (2004): Two alpine wolf spiders of Australia: Artoria alta sp. nov. and the male of Lycosa musgravei McKay, 1974 (Araneae, Lycosidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 115: 27 - 34
Framenau VW, Baehr, BC (2018): The wolf spider genus Artoria in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Australia (Araneae, Lycosidae, Artoriinae). Evolutionary Systematics. 2: 169 - 241
Framenau VW, Hebets EA (2007): A review of leg ornamentation in male wolf spiders, with the description of a new species from Australia, Artoria schizocoides (Araneae, Lycosidae). Journal of Arachnology. 35: 89 - 101
Prado A W do, Baptista R L C, Framenau W V (2026): Taxonomic revision of the wolf spider genus Artoria (Araneae, Lycosidae, Artoriinae) from Northern Territory and Queensland, with additions to the fauna of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. Megataxa. 19: 379 - 456DOI
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Araneae (Spiders)
- Actinopodidae
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- abscondita
- aculeata
- albopedipalpis
- albopilata
- alta
- ancorata
- atrata
- avona
- barringtonensis
- beaury
- belfordensis
- berenice
- bicornuta
- bondi
- booderee
- catinata
- cingulipes
- coclearia
- comleroi
- corowa
- cucurbita
- cunicularia
- emu
- equipalus
- extraordinaria
- falcata
- flavimana
- FP-11765
- FP-13189
- geniculata
- globula
- gloriosa
- grahammilledgei
- halterata
- hamifera
- helensmithae
- howquaensis
- impedita
- incrassata
- inversa
- kanangra
- kerewong
- laciniata
- lamellata
- limitata
- lineata
- lingulata
- linnaei
- longinqua
- maroota
- mckayi
- mungo
- munmorah
- myallensis
- nasuta
- orcina
- parvula
- pedroi
- pileata
- pinnata
- plicata
- proboscidea
- quadrata
- reniformis
- retorta
- scapulata
- schizocoides
- semicircularis
- serpentidens
- slatyeri
- strepera
- superelliptica
- taeniata
- taeniifera
- tenuis
- terania
- triangularis
- trifida
- ulrichi
- vectis
- velata
- victoriensis
- werrikimbe
- wilkiei
- Artoriopsis
- Costacosa
- Diahogna
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- Genus 2556 (ariadnae grp)
- Genus 3448 (leonhardii gp)
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- Genus 3643 (yalkara grp)
- Genus 3764 (australicola grp)
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