Venatrix furcillata

Venatrix furcillata, one of the wolf spiders, is a mid sized spider found in eastern Australia. The body length of the female is up to 13 mm, the male 9 mm. The abdomen has distinctive tapering markings. Sometimes noted in suburban gardens and lawns. It lives in a simple burrow, but may be seen migrating in large numbers to a communal web, an unusual feature for wolf spiders. The grey coloured spherical egg sac is around 6 mm in diameter, carried by the female. Eggs are 45 to 60 in number, 0.8 mm in diameter. Prey is ground dwelling insects.^[1][2][3][4] The spider has been identified as occurring in Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria.

Little wolf spider
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Lycosidae
Genus:	Venatrix
Species:	V. furcillata
Binomial name
Venatrix furcillata L.Koch, 1867
Synonyms
Lycosa furcillata L. Koch, 1867: 201-202. Lycosa furcillata L. Koch.- Koch (1877a): 903-906, plate 78, Figs 1A-B, 2A-B. Lycosa furcillata L. Koch.- Rainbow, 1911: 268. Allocosa furcillata (L. Koch).- Roewer, 1955c: 206. Allocosa furcillata L. Koch.- Rack, 1961: 37. Lycosa furcillata L. Koch.- McKay, 1973: 379. Lycosa furcillata L. Koch.- McKay, 1974a: 15-18, Figs 3C-D, K-M. Lycosa furcillata L. Koch.- McKay, 1985b: 77. Lycosa furcillata L. Koch.- Platnick, 1993: 487. Venatrix furcillata (L. Koch).- Framenau & Vink, 2001: 957-959, Figs 36A-D, 37.

See also

• List of Lycosidae species