Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Aulonia  C. L. Koch, 1847   2 species

Aulonia kratochvili Dunin, Buchar & Absolon, 1986

Description
Male

Colouration of prosoma and opisthosoma as in females. Prosoma length: 2.2-2.7 mm. Legs yellow, only coxa and femur I brown.

Body length male: 4.25 mm
Female

Prosoma brown, radial stripes indistinct, white median longitudinal band and white margin indistinct. Prosoma length: 2.55 mm. Chelicerae and clypeus brown, retromargin with 3 teeth. Sternum light brown. Legs yellow, femur I dark brown, femora II-IV with grey-brown ventral band. Opisthosoma: dorsum dark grey-brown, with white median longitudinal band, posterior third with indistinct, narrow, white stripes, venter grey-yellow.

Body length female: 5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan), Iran, Turkmenistan
Phenology
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Distribution List
Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022; Mikhailov, 2013) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Georgia   (Seropian et al., 2025b) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Russia, Southern   (Fomichev, 2026) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) ||| Turkey (Europe)   (van Helsdingen, 2013; Demircan Aksan & Topçu, 2022c) |||
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 pdf

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

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Demircan Aksan N, Topçu A (2022c) A preliminary checklist of the spider fauna of European Türkiye. Serket 19: 39-56 pdf

Fomichev A A (2026) New data on the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Dagestan, Russia. Acta Biologica Sibirica 12: 1-35 pdf

Helsdingen P J van (2013) A quick scan of the spider fauna of the European part of Turkey. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 33: 29-38 pdf

Kronestedt T (1997) First record of Aulonia kratochvili (Araneae, Lycosidae) from Europe. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 14: 77-80 pdf

Lecigne S (2011) Inventaire aranéologique dans la Province d’Izmir (Turquie) (Arachnida, Araneae). Le bulletin d'Arthropoda 46: 5-83 pdf

Lecigne S (2021a) A new species of Sintula (Linyphiidae), redescription of Brigittea innocens (Dictynidae) and eight spider species newly recorded for Turkey (Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 62: 11-34 pdf

Mikhailov K G (2013) The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Seropian A, Ninua L, Rostiashvili I, Bulbulashvili N, Makharadze G (2025b) New data on spiders (Arthropoda, Arachnida, Araneae) of Georgia with description of a new species from Tegenaria lyncea group. Caucasiana 4: 65-80 pdf

Varol M İ, Akan Z, Özdemır A, Kutbay F, Ozaslan M (2007) The spider Aulonia kratochvili (Araneae: Lycosidae) new to the Turkish fauna. Journal of Biological Sciences 7: 448-450 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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