Agelenidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Lycosoides  Lucas, 1846   15 species

Lycosoides flavomaculata Lucas, 1846

Description
Male

Prosoma brown-yellow-reddish, darker stains, eye region blackish. Sternum darker on the edges. Chelicerae with hooks, two denticles on promargin, 3 on retromargin. Palp with characteristic patellar apophysis, which is large, bent and concave on the inner side.

prosoma length: 3.9 mm, prosoma width: 2.6 mm.

Body length male: 7.9 mm
Female

Prosoma brown-yellow-reddish, darker stains, eye region blackish. Sternum darker on the edges. Chelicerae with hooks, two denticles on promargin, 3 on retromargin. Epigyne large, posterior part protruding over cavity, which is prolonged laterally.

prosoma length: 3.4 mm, prosoma width: 2.2 mm.

Body length female: 7.0-8.2 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Records from the Balkans and from Turkey removed in the sense of Bosmans et al. (2022)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Malta, Italy (Sicily)
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Distribution List
Algeria   (de Blauwe, 1980a; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Bulgaria  Removed (Blagoev et al., 2018; Bosmans et al., 2022) ||| France / Corsica  Removed (Le Peru, 2007; Danflous et al., 2020b) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Malta   (Pfliegler et al., 2017) ||| Morocco   (de Blauwe, 1980a; Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| North Macedonia  Removed (Bosmans et al., 2022) ||| Serbia  Removed (Bosmans et al., 2022) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Kmira et al., 2025) ||| Turkey (Asia)  Removed (Danışman et al., 2025a; Bosmans et al., 2022) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

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) pdf

Blauwe R de (1980a) Revision de la famille des Agelenidae (Araneae) de la région Mediterranéenne (2e partie). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 52(1): 1-54 pdf

Bosmans R, Lecigne S, Benhalima S, Abrous-Kherbouche A (2022) The genus Lycosoides Lucas, 1846 in the Maghreb region, with the description of five new species (Araneae: Agelenidae). Arachnology 19: 316-340 pdf

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

Danflous S, Déjean S, Guerbaa K, Jacquet C, Lecigne S, Montagne D, Montardi Y, Villepoux O (2020b) De araneis Galliae IV. Actualisation du référentiel des araignées de France – première note. Espèces absentes de France ou mises en nomen dubium. Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 5: 10-32 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Denis J (1954b) Notes d'aranéologie marocaine. III. Quelques araignées du massif de l'Ayachi, avec une étude sur les Textrix du Maroc. Revue Française d'Entomologie 21: 132-144 pdf

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 pdf

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Levy G (1996) The agelenid funnel-weaver family and the spider genus Cedicus in Israel (Araneae, Agelenidae and Cybaeidae). Zoologica Scripta 25: 85-122 pdf

Pfliegler W A, Schönhofer A, Niedbała W, Vella P, Sciberras A, Vella A (2017) New records of mites (Acari) and harvestmen (Opiliones) from Malta with a preliminary checklist of Maltese Arachnida. Soil Organisms 89: 85-110 pdf

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

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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