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Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Alopecosa  Simon, 1885   58 species

Alopecosa simoni (Thorell, 1872)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017492

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Description
Body length female: 9.2 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: not on Cyprus (Bosmans et al 2019c)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Mediterranean
Figures
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male Pedipalp, lateral view
(Simon 1937)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)

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male Bulbus, ventro-lateral view
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Simon 1937)

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female Epigyne
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)

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female Epigyne
(Oger 2025)

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female Vulva
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)

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female Habitus, dorsal view
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)

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.

Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| North Macedonia   (Deltshev et al., 2013) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
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

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

Deltshev C, Komnenov M, Blagoev G, Georgiev T, Lazarov S, Stojkoska E, Naumova M (2013) Faunistic diversity of spiders (Araneae) in Galichitsa Mountain (FYR Macedonia). Biodiversity Data Journal 1(e977): 1-70 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

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

Lugetti G, Tongiorgi P (1969) Ricerche sul genere Alopecosa Simon (Araneae-Lycosidae). Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali B76: 1-100 pdf

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]. pdf

Oger P (2025) Les araignées de Belgique et de France.  – Online at http://arachno.piwigo.com

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 (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
18-09-2025 Distribution update Detail
08-10-2020 Image insert
07-11-2019 Distribution update Detail
23-09-2018 Image insert