Alopecosa dryada Cordes, 1996
Description
Male
Prosoma with narrow median band and constrasting white hairs, lateral bands narrow. Prosoma length: 4.3 mm, prosoma width: 3.1 mm. Cephalic part more extended than usually foung in genus. Sternum dark brown. Legs yellowish with reduced annulations, femora, patellae and proximal half of if tibiae dark brown to black, densely covered with black hairs, coxae light, yellowish. Opisthosoma: dorsum dark, with narrow median band, light grey, venter light brown.
Female
Prosoma medium to dark brown, light median band, lateral bands only indicated by spots. Prosoma length: 5.2 mm, prosoma width: 3.6 mm. Sternum dark brown. Legs yellowish brown, annulated. Opisthosoma dorsally brown, pattern variable, median band only indicated, venter light brown.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Cordes 1996)
Tegular apophysis
(Cordes 1996)
Habitus
(Cordes 1996)
Epigyne/vulva, ventral view
(Thaler et al. 2000)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Cordes 1996)
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
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 
Cordes D (1996) A new wolf spider of the genus Alopecosa Simon from Greece (Araneae: Lycosidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 10: 211-214
Thaler K, Buchar J, Knoflach B (2000) Notes on wolf spiders from Greece (Araneae, Lycosidae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 32: 1071-1091
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
| 18-09-2025 | Distribution update | Detail |