Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Alopecosa  Simon, 1885   57 species

Alopecosa dryada  Cordes, 1996

Description
Male

Prosoma with narrow median band and constrasting white hairs, lateral bands narrow. Prosoma length: 4.3 mm, prosoma width: 3.1 mm. Cephalic part more extended than usually foung in genus. Sternum dark brown. Legs yellowish with reduced annulations, femora, patellae and proximal half of if tibiae dark brown to black, densely covered with black hairs, coxae light, yellowish. Opisthosoma: dorsum dark, with narrow median band, light grey, venter light brown.

Female

Prosoma medium to dark brown, light median band, lateral bands only indicated by spots. Prosoma length: 5.2 mm, prosoma width: 3.6 mm. Sternum dark brown. Legs yellowish brown, annulated. Opisthosoma dorsally brown, pattern variable, median band only indicated, venter light brown.

Distribution
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Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece
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"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Greece   (no references) |||
References

Cordes D (1996) A new wolf spider of the genus Alopecosa Simon from Greece (Araneae: Lycosidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 10: 211-214 pdf

Thaler K, Buchar J, Knoflach B (2000) Notes on wolf spiders from Greece (Araneae, Lycosidae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 32: 1071-1091 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf