Venator Marginatus
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''Venator marginatus'' is a wolf spider (i.e., in the Lycosidae family), endemic to Australia and found in Victoria. It was described in 1900 by
Henry Roughton Hogg Henry Roughton Hogg (9 February 1846 – 30 November 1923) was a British amateur arachnologist. Biography Born in Stockwell, Surrey, he attended Uppingham School from 1859-1862, and later studied at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he obtained ...
. However, in 2015 Volker Framenau declared it " incerta sedis", stating that it was known from two female specimens, the morphology of whose genitalia failed to match those of the genus. (This view is accepted by the
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.)


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{{taxonbar, from=Q2592268 Spiders described in 1900 Lycosidae Spiders of Australia