Alopecosa pentheri (Nosek, 1905)
Description
Pattern indistinct, rather dark colouration.
Body length male: 5.5-7.3 mmBody length female: 5.5-7.3 mm
Additional information
A. cursor and A. pentheri occur sympatrically in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, faunistic records of these species are often mixed up due to indistinguishable females (Marusik et al. 2018).
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Thaler et al. 2000)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Thaler et al. 2000)
Bulbus, anterior view
(Marusik et al. 2018)
Bulbus, prolateral view
(Marusik et al. 2018)
Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Marusik et al. 2018)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Marusik et al. 2018)
Palpal claw, ventral view
(Marusik et al. 2018)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Thaler et al. 2000)
Epigyne
(Marusik et al. 2018)
Epigyne
(Marusik et al. 2018)
Epigyne
(Marusik et al. 2018)
Epigyne
(Marusik et al. 2018)
Vulva
(Marusik et al. 2018)
Vulva
(Marusik et al. 2018)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Ponomarev et al. 2019a)
Vulva, ventral view
(Ponomarev et al. 2019a)
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
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) 
Blick T (2018) A small collection of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the River Vjosa, Albania – with an updated spider checklist of Albania. Acta ZooBot Austria 155: 213-232
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
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 22 July 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
Helsdingen P J van, IJland S (2015) A quick scan of the spider fauna in the surroundings of Përmet, Albania (Arachnida, Araneae) - preliminary report. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 35: 15-33
Katušić L (unpubl.) .
Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267
Marusik Y M, Nadolny A A, Koponen S (2018) A survey of the Alopecosa cursor species group (Aranei: Lycosidae) from Asia. Arthropoda Selecta 27: 348-362
Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna].
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152
Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.
Ponomarev A V, Aliev M A, Khabiev G N, Shmatko V Y (2019a) New data on the spider fauna (Aranei) of Dagestan, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 28: 309-334
Thaler K, Buchar J, Knoflach B (2000) Notes on wolf spiders from Greece (Araneae, Lycosidae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 32: 1071-1091
WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2