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Agelenidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Coelotes  Blackwall, 1841   21 species

Coelotes rudolfi (Schenkel, 1925)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022861

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Description
Male

Palpus: Conductor of stylus distally with only one sharply pointed tip. Patellar apophysis slightly sinuous in lateral view and not tapering. 

Prosoma length: 5 mm.

Body length male: 9.5 mm
Female

Prosoma with dark grooves radiating from the fovea. Chelicerae black-brown. Epigyne small, anterior edge of atrium accentuated and separated from lowered plate.

Prosoma length: 6 mm.

Body length female: 13.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Alps (Switzerland, Italy)
Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Maurer 1982b)

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male Pedipalp
(Maurer 1982b)

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male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(de Blauwe 1975)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(de Blauwe 1975)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(de Blauwe 1975)

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male Conductor
(Isaia & Pantini 2009)

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male Patella and tibia, dorsal view
(de Blauwe 1975)

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female Epigyne
(Maurer 1982b)

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female Epigyne
(Maurer 1982b)

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female Vulva
(Maurer 1982b)

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female Vulva
(Maurer 1982b)

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female Vulva
(Maurer 1982b)

Distribution List

"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.

Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) |||
References

Blauwe R de (1975) Deuxième contribution à l'étude des Agelenidae des collections du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Vérone. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona 2: 145-154 pdf

Isaia M, Pantini P (2009) Coelotes pickardi O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873: un intricato caso di sinonimia per un endemita alpino ritrovato in Valle Oropa e le sue sottospecie (Arachnida, Araneae, Amaurobiidae). Memorie dell'Associazione Naturalistica Piemontese 11: 23-28 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Maurer R (1982b) Zur Kenntnis der Gattung Coelotes (Araneae. Agalenidae) in Alpenländern II. Die pastor-Gruppe der italienischen und französischen Alpen-Beschreibung  von C. pastor lessinensis ssp n. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona 8: 165-183 pdf

Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
27-05-2025 Distribution update Detail
11-04-2016 Datasheet update Detail