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Agelenidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Coelotes  Blackwall, 1841   21 species

Coelotes alpinus Polenec, 1972

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:022713

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Description
Male

Colouration as in females, except that males lacking the reddish tinge and chevrons less distinct. Prosoma length: 4-4.75 mm.

Body length male: 7.5-8.75 mm
Female

Prosoma brown-yellow to reddish brown, cephalic part darker, with dark radial stripes. Prosoma length: 5-6 mm. Sternum brown-yellow, margin blackish. Legs reddish brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum brown-grey, anterior half with dark median, longitudinal stripe, posterior half with 4 light chevrons, venter grey.

Body length female: 11-15 mm
Additional information

1790-2130 m a.s.l.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy, Austria, Slovenia
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Polenec 1972)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Polenec 1972)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Polenec 1972)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Wang & Jäger 2010)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Polenec 1972)

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female Vulva
(Polenec 1972)

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.

Austria   (Komposch & Steinberger, 1999) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) |||
References

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

Komposch C, Steinberger K-H (1999) Rote Liste der Spinnen Kärntens (Arachnida: Araneae). Naturschutz in Kärnten 15: 567-616 pdf

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

Polenec A (1972) Coelotes alpinus n. sp. Biološki vestnik Ljubljana 20: 81-83 pdf

Wang X P, Jäger P (2010) A review of Coelotinae epigynal teeth morphology, with descriptions of two species from China (Araneae: Amaurobiidae). Journal of Natural History 44: 1165-1187 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
27-05-2025 Distribution update Detail
08-12-2015 Image insert