araneae - Wadicosa fidelis

Description

Male

Colouration variable, varying between dark brown, grey to almost black. Sternum dark. Opisthosoma with dark cardiac mark and light lateral markings; ventrally lighter.

Body length male: 5.6-6.8 mm

Female

Often lighter in colouration than males.

Body length female: 7.4 mm

Distribution

Presence

No data

Global distribution (WSC 2023): Macaronesia, North Africa, Southern Europe, Caucasus, Middle East, Central Asia, China, Japan, Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Philippines, Indonesia (Sumatra)

Figures

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Simon 1937)

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Hepner & Paulus 2009)

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kronestedt & Zyuzin 2009)

Embolus, ventral view
(Kronestedt & Zyuzin 2009)

Embolus
(Kronestedt & Zyuzin 2009)

Epigyne, ventral view
(Simon 1937)

Epigyne, ventral view
(Hepner & Paulus 2009)

Epigyne, ventral view
(Kronestedt & Zyuzin 2009)

Vulva, dorsal view
(Hepner & Paulus 2009)

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.

Algeria (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Azerbaijan (Otto, 2022) ||| Cyprus (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Egypt (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| France (no references) ||| Greece (no references) ||| Libya (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Morocco (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Portugal (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia (Bosmans, unpubl.) |||

References

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254

Hepner M, Paulus H F (2009) Contributions on the wolf spider fauna (Araneae, Lycosidae) of Gran Canaria (Spain). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 14: 339-346

Kronestedt T, Zyuzin A A (2009) Fixation of Lycosa fidelis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 as the type species for the genus Wadicosa Zyuzin, 1985 (Araneae: Lycosidae), with a redescripton of the species. Contributions to Natural History 12: 813-828

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

Simon E (1937) Les arachnides de France 6 (5). Paris (Roret): 979-1298

WSC (2023) World Spider Catalog. Version 24. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (14.02.2023) doi: 10.24436/2

Wadicosa fidelis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)