Arctosa intricaria (C. L. Koch, 1847)
Description
Prosoma dark brown, with blackish radial stripes, submarginal stripes yellowish, undulating, median band light yellow with blackish median line. Chelicerae dark red-brown, frontal part covered with yellowish hairs. Sternum and coxae light yellow. Legs pale yellow, femora to tibiae with brown annulations. Opisthosoma: dorsum grey-brown, anterior part with reddish yellow cardiac mark and 2 small blackish lateral spots, followed by 4-5 pairs of black spots.
Body length male: 10.5 mmBody length female: 14 mm
Additional information
According to C. L. Koch (1847): Locus typicus "Deutschland, vielleicht nur Norddeutschland" [Germany, probably northern Germany only]. Dahl (1908) and Roewer (1960c) doubt this statement. Roewer (1960c) lists a female from Dalmatia.
Distribution
Figures
Lamella characteristica
(Roewer 1960c)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Roewer 1960c)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Roewer 1960c)
Eyes, frontal view
(C. L. Koch 1847)
Habitus
(C. L. Koch 1847)
Distribution List
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 
Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535
Dahl F (1908) Die Lycosiden oder Wolfspinnen Deutschlands und ihre Stellung im Haushalt der Natur. Nach statistischen Untersuchungen dargestellt. Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum 88(3): 175-678
Koch C L (1847) Die Arachniden. Nürnberg, Vierzehnter Band, pp. 89-210, Fünfzehnter Band, pp. 1-136.
Roewer C F (1960c) Araneae Lycosaeformia II (Lycosidae) (Fortsetzung und Schluss). Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba, Mission G. F. de Witte 55: 519-1040
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2