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Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Wadicosa  Zyuzin, 1985   1 species

Wadicosa fidelis  (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:019410

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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 2019): Macaronesia, North Africa, Southern Europe, Caucasus, Middle East, Central Asia, China, Japan
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Simon 1937)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Hepner & Paulus 2009)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kronestedt & Zyuzin 2009)

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male Embolus, ventral view
(Kronestedt & Zyuzin 2009)

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male Embolus
(Kronestedt & Zyuzin 2009)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Simon 1937)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Hepner & Paulus 2009)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Kronestedt & Zyuzin 2009)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Hepner & Paulus 2009)

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 pdf

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

Helsdingen P J van (2010a) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org

Hepner M, Paulus H F (2009) Contributions on the wolf spider fauna (Araneae, Lycosidae) of Gran Canaria (Spain). Bull Br arachnol Soc 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. Contrib nat Hist 12: 813-828

Otto S (2019) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 10.2019. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

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

World Spider Catalog (2019) World Spider Catalog, version 20.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.09.2019) doi: 10.24436/2