{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = | image = | image_caption = | image2 = | image2_caption = | taxon = Lynxosa | authority = Roewer, 1960<ref name="roewer1960" /> | type_species = ''Lycosa inexorabilis'' | type_species_authority = O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 4, see text }}
'''''Lynxosa''''' is a genus of spiders in the family Lycosidae.<ref name="wsc" />
==Distribution== All four described species are endemic to St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.<ref name="wsc" />
==Taxonomy== This genus was removed from ''Hogna'' <small>Simon, 1885</small> in 2024.<ref name="sherwood2024" />
==Species== {{as of|2026|1}}, this genus includes four species:<ref name="wsc" /> {{Div col}} * ''Lynxosa inexorabilis'' <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1870)</small> – St. Helena * ''Lynxosa ligata'' <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1870)</small> – St. Helena * ''Lynxosa nefasta'' <small>(Tongiorgi, 1977)</small> – St. Helena * ''Lynxosa veseyensis'' <small>(Sherwood, Henrard, Logunov & Fowler, 2023)</small> – St. Helena {{Div col end}}
==References== <references> <ref name="wsc">{{cite web | url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus-detail/4589/genus | title=Gen. ''Lynxosa'' Roewer, 1960 | publisher=World Spider Catalog | doi=10.24436/2 | accessdate=2026-01-19}}</ref> <ref name="roewer1960">{{cite journal | last1=Roewer | first1=C. F. | year=1960 | title=Araneae Lycosaeformia II (Lycosidae) (Fortsetzung und Schluss) | journal=Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba, Mission G. F. de Witte | volume=55 | pages=519-1040}}</ref> <ref name="sherwood2024">{{cite journal | last1=Sherwood | first1=D. | last2=Henrard | first2=A. | last3=Jocqué | first3=R. | last4=Fowler | first4=L. | last5=Marusik | first5=Y. M. | last6=Maddison | first6=W. | last7=Harvey | first7=M. S. | last8=Hormiga | first8=G. | last9=Rheims | first9=C. A. | last10=Piacentini | first10=L. N. | last11=Peters | first11=M. | last12=Stevens | first12=N. | last13=Joshua | first13=D. | last14=Scipio-O'Dean | first14=C. J. | last15=Ellick | first15=G. | last16=Wilkins | first16=V. | last17=Ashmole | first17=M. | last18=Ashmole | first18=P. | year=2024 | title=Annotated checklist of the spiders of Saint Helena, with new records, descriptions of unknown sexes, new and restored genera, and two new species (Araneae: Araneomorphae) | journal=Arachnology | volume=19 | pages=1218-1291 | doi=10.13156/arac.2024.19.9.1218| hdl=11336/267148 | hdl-access=free }}</ref> </references>
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Category:Lycosidae genera Category:Spiders described in 1960 Category:Fauna of Saint Helena
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