Pyrenecosa rupicola (Dufour, 1821)
Description
Prosoma black-brown or grey-brown. Legs dark brown or yellow-brown, partly annulated with black. Opisthosoma black-brown or grey-brown.
Body length male: 7.9-8.6 mmBody length female: 8.2-10 mm
Additional information
western Alps, Pyrenees and furthermore Spain (Cantabria, Sierra de Guadarrama, Sierra Nevada), 2000-3500 m
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Buchar & Thaler 1993)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Breitling 2020)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Ferrández 2024b)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ferrández 2024b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ferrández 2024b)
Tip of embolus
(Buchar & Thaler 1993)
Embolic division
(Buchar & Thaler 1993)
Embolic division
(Buchar & Thaler 1993)
Epigyne
(Buchar & Thaler 1993)
Epigyne
(Ferrández 2024b)
Epigyne
(Ferrández 2024b)
Vulva
(Ferrández 2024b)
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
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 
Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362
Buchar J, Thaler K (1993) Die Arten der Gattung Acantholycosa in Westeuropa (Arachnida, Araneida: Lycosidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 100: 327-341
Ferrández M Á (2024b) Pyrenocosa rupicola (Dufour, 1820) (Araeae: Lycosidae) en España. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 44: 178-183
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
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2