Lycosa singoriensis (Laxmann, 1770)
Description
Female
Prosoma olive brown. Basal segments of chelicerae and pedipalps yellowish brown or orange-brown. Median stripe on prosoma bright, small and indistinct, with two dark longitudinal patterns. Laterals of prosoma with many radially scattered black bands or spots. Sternum entirely black. Fovea visible. Cephalic region higher than thoracic region. Distance between posterior lateral eyes larger than between anterior lateral eyes. Surroundings of anterior lateral eyes dark. Chelicerae hairy. Legs thick and strong, greyish olive brown. Legs black spotted or annulated, hairy, with dorsal spines. Trochanters ventrally black. Opisthosoma dark olive brown. Folium anteriorly with black pattern, medially often with undulated indistinct dorsal band with white spots, posteriorly with some horizontal white lines. Ventral side of opisthosoma dark.
Body length female: 18-31 mmDistribution
Figures
Pedipalp
(Miller 1971)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)
Pedipalp
(Azheganova 1968)
Pedipalp
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Marusik et al. 2003b)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Marusik et al. 2003b)
Bulbus, caudal view
(Marusik et al. 2003b)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Ponomarev et al. 2025a)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Ponomarev et al. 2025a)
Embolus
(Loksa 1972)
Epigyne
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)
Epigyne
(Miller 1971)
Epigyne
(Loksa 1972)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Marusik et al. 2003b)
Epigyne
(Ponomarev et al. 2025a)
Vulva
(Azheganova 1968)
Vulva
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)
Vulva
(Loksa 1972)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Marusik et al. 2003b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Ponomarev et al. 2025a)
Prosoma, frontal view
(Zyuzin 1985)
Habitus
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)
Habitus
(Loksa 1972)
Claws
(Loksa 1972)
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.
References
Azheganova N S (1968) Kratkii opredelitel' paukov (Aranei) lesnoi i lesostepnoi zony SSSR. Akademia Nauk SSSR, 149pp. 
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Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018)
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Deltshev C D, Ćurčić B P M, Blagoev GA (2003b) The spiders of Serbia. Inst. Zoology, Fac. Biology, Belgrade & Inst. Zoology, Bulg. Acad. Sci., Sofia. 832 pp.
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Fuhn I E, Niculescu-Burlacu F (1971) Fam. Lycosidae. Fauna Republicii Socialiste România (Arachnida) 5 (3): 1-253
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Marusik Y M, Guseinov E F, Koponen S (2003b) Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Azerbaijan. 2. Critical survey of wolf spiders (Lycosidae) found in the country with description of three new species and brief review of Palaearctoc Evippa Simon, 1885. Arthropoda Selecta 12: 47-65
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Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.
Ponomarev A V, Turbanov I S, Shmatko V Y (2025a) New data on the spider fauna (Aranei) of Volga Region, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 34: 415-425
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Zyuzin A A (1985) Generic and subfamilial criteria in the systematics of the spider family Lycosidae (Aranei), with the description of a new genus and two new subfamilies. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, Leningrad 139: 40-51
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