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GoI: Lutica (ZODARIIDAE) Sand dune spiders

GoI: Lutica (ZODARIIDAE) Sand dune spiders
(watch out googling for images. there is an exotic/pole dancer named Lutica hehehehe)

I stumbled on references to these amazing spiders as prey items for Dune trapdoor spiders.  There are four species that can be found in the USA, and i believe all four are in CA!

From what i have read, the (India) species are mistakes and this is purely a New World species. I have tiny-ized the India species.  
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Gen. Lutica Marx, 1891 [urn:lsid:amnh.org:spidergen:02298]

N.B.: all Indian species are misplaced.

mf abalonea Gertsch, 1961....................USA [urn:lsid:amnh.org:spidersp:025802]
L. a. Gertsch, 1961: 371, f. 4, 7-8 (Dmf).

f bengalensis Tikader & Patel, 1975....................India [urn:lsid:amnh.org:spidersp:025803]
L. b. Tikader & Patel, 1975: 138, f. 12-15 (Df).
L. b. Tikader, 1981a: 139, f. 3-4 (f).

f clementea Gertsch, 1961....................USA [urn:lsid:amnh.org:spidersp:025804]
L. c. Gertsch, 1961: 374, f. 3 (Df).

mf deccanensis Tikader & Malhotra, 1976....................India [urn:lsid:amnh.org:spidersp:025805]
L. d. Tikader & Malhotra, 1976a: 794, f. 1-5 (Dmf).
L. d. Tikader, 1981a: 139, f. 1-2 (f).

mf kovvurensis Reddy & Patel, 1993....................India [urn:lsid:amnh.org:spidersp:025806]
L. k. Reddy & Patel, 1993d: 173, f. 1a-h (Dmf).

mf maculata Marx, 1891 *....................USA [urn:lsid:amnh.org:spidersp:025807]
L. m. Marx, 1891: 33, pl. 1, f. 3 (Df).
L. m. Jocqué, 1991a: 39, f. 32, 60-61 (f).

f nicolasia Gertsch, 1961....................USA [urn:lsid:amnh.org:spidersp:025808]
L. n. Gertsch, 1961: 370, f. 1-2, 5-6 (Df).

mf poonaensis Tikader, 1981....................India [urn:lsid:amnh.org:spidersp:025809]
L. p. Tikader, 1981a: 139, f. 5-10 (Dmf).
http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/ZODARIIDAE.html





rats. work interferes. to be
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Okay then, first up, the very cranky Mygalomorph I found in Baja California, Mexico. My biologist friend, with whom I've been working on a local spider survey, tells me I'm partially right about the ID of this spider. It IS a Mygalomorph, but not a trapdoor spider. He says, " Your mygalomorph is a member of the Family Cyrtauchoniidae. That's a mouthful. They were once classified in the trapdoor family but were recently split. They tend to burrow into sand dunes. I have found them when digging for sand dune spiders, Lutica. The family needs revision in a big way. There are apparently several undescribed genera and species waiting for someone to work up." We found this guy all rolled up playing dead in the dirt. It came to life when I got my camera out, and put on a rather unfriendly display of fangs and legs, which allowed me to identify it as a myg. After annoying it a while, we let it go in a nice bush.
http://www.spiderzrule.com/myglamorphs.htm







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http://zipcodezoo.com/Key/Lutica_Genus.asp









LITERATURE


Jocqué, R. 1991. A generic revision of the spider family Zodariidae (Araneae). Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 201: 1-160.

Marx, G. 1891. A contribution to the knowledge of North American spiders. Proc. ent. Soc. Wash. 2: 28-37.

Ramirez, Martin G. 1995. Natural History of the Spider Genus Lutica (Araneae, Zodariidae) Journal of Arachnology, Vol. 23, No. 2 (1995), pp. 111-117
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Lutica abalonea Gertsch, 1961
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Lutica clementea Gertsch, 1961
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Lutica maculata Marx, 1891





http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/25807


Jocqué, R. 1991. A generic revision of the spider family Zodariidae (Araneae). Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 201: 1-160.

Marx, G. 1891. A contribution to the knowledge of North American spiders. Proc. ent. Soc. Wash. 2: 28-37.
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Lutica nicolasia Gertsch, 1961
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What

What delivers:

Lutica "New Species B"

Sub-adult:


Adult:






As always, pictures link to larger.
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Ramirez, Martin G. 1995. Natural History of the Spider Genus Lutica (Araneae, Zodariidae) Journal of Arachnology, Vol. 23, No. 2 (1995), pp. 111-117

Natural History of the Spider Genus Lutica
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dang you're good, what!


how are these doing?


edit:

also, those are NICE looking! for a spiderr that has such interesting retreat constuction and prey acquisition behaviour they are freakin sexy too!
What

So far they are doing fine... I have just been leaving them alone since capture as the collection techniques are a bit aggressive(digging and sifting).

I plan to try feeding the largest one later today and possibly a couple of the smaller ones.

I will hopefully going back sometime this weekend/next week for habitat shots.
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Prey

Coelus globosus:


Larvae, presumably from the beetles:


Weevils:
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