Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Alopecosa  Simon, 1885   56 species

Alopecosa alpicola  (Simon, 1876)

Description
Male

Prosoma brown, median band reddish and spasely covered with white hairs. Prosoma length: 4.0-5.2 mm. Sternum reddish brown. Legs yellowish, femora, patellae and tibiae darkly annulated or with dark spots. Opisthosoma reddish brown to olive brown, cardiac mark light, bordered with black, with 3-4 chevrons.

Female

Prosoma length: 4.8-6.1 mm.

Body length female: 14.2-16.6 mm
Additional information

In the Alps, a closely related species of A. sulzeri (Pavesi 1873), hard to distinguish

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain, France, Italy, Russia (Europe), China, Caucasus?, Kazakhstan?
Phenology
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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.

Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| France   (no references) ||| France / Corsica   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) ||| Spain   (Cardoso & Morano, 2010) |||
References

Cardoso P, Morano E (2010) The Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 2495: 1-52 pdf

Lugetti G, Tongiorgi P (1969) Ricerche sul genere Alopecosa Simon (Araneae-Lycosidae). Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali B76: 1-100 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
18-06-2020 Distribution update Detail