Wadicosa fidelis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)
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 mmFemale
Often lighter in colouration than males.
Body length female: 7.4 mmDistribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Simon 1937)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Hepner & Paulus 2009)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kronestedt & Zyuzin 2009)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Seropian et al. 2023b)
Pedipalp, lateral view
(Abdel-Ghani et al. 2023)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Abdel-Ghani et al. 2023)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Quevedo-Ortiz & Pinilla Rosa 2024b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Quevedo-Ortiz & Pinilla Rosa 2024b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kronestedt et al. 2024)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Embolus, ventral view
(Kronestedt & Zyuzin 2009)
Embolus
(Kronestedt & Zyuzin 2009)
Embolus, anterior view
(Kronestedt et al. 2024)
Embolus, ventral view
(Kronestedt et al. 2024)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Simon 1937)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Hepner & Paulus 2009)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Kronestedt & Zyuzin 2009)
Epigyne
(Seropian et al. 2023b)
Epigyne
(Kronestedt et al. 2024)
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.
References
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Akpınar A, Varol İ (2013) Contributions to the Turkish wolf spiders (Arachnida: Lycosidae). [note: Lycosa boninensis, Pardosa anomala and Trochosa abdita are not plausible and not included in Spiders of Europe] Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 65: 271-272
Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357
Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535
Bosmans R (2003) A checklist of the spiders of Tunisia, with description of a new species of Palliduphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Kaupia - Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte 12: 89-109
Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124
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
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183
Elkrew H, Hamza A, Ghana S, Shaibi T, Swehli A I, Elmareme H, Ahmad A (2024) Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Libya. Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences 22: 19346-19369
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, Feulner G R, Roobas B (2024) Species of Wadicosa (Araneae, Lycosidae): a new species from the southeastern Arabian Peninsula. Zootaxa 5523: 291-300
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
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Lecigne S, Moutaouakil S, Lips J (2025) Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – second note. On new species and new records from caves and miscellaneous terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 40(1, supplement): 1-184
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Quevedo-Ortiz G, Pinilla Rosa M (2024b) Aportación al conocimiento aracnológico (Araneae) del noreste y sureste de la península ibérica. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 44: 175-177
Seropian A, Bulbulashvili N, Otto S, Krammer H-J, Kachlishvili N, Datunashvili A (2023b) Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus barcode of life project. Part II. Caucasiana 2: 231-297
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WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2