Wolf spider females are characterised by carrying cocoons attached to their spinnerets. Emerged spiderlings are carried on the females’ opisthosomas, with the exception of three Japanese lycosid species who carry spiderlings on empty cocoons. Here, the same behaviour is recorded in a European spider: the drumming wolf spider Hygrolycosa rubrofasciata. Spiderlings of this species do not try to c...

In the lycosoid spiders, the secondary eyes possess a grate-shaped tapetum lucidum that reflects light, causing eyeshine when these spiders are viewed with approximately coaxial illumination. This guanine-based reflective surface is thought to increase visual capabilities in low light. We explored the eyeshine of the posterior medial eye in eight taxa of pisaurid and lycosid spiders. The taxa i...

Artoriopsis Framenau, 2007 is an Australian wolf spider (Lycosidae Sundevall, 1833) genus in the subfamily Artoriinae 2007. One of its species, A. expolita (L. Koch, 1877), has recently been introduced to New Zealand. Five new species are described here, bogabilla sp. nov. (males only); lacustris (male only), orientalis and females)—all only known from South Wales—A. mulier (female only) Canber...