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Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Donacosa  Alderweireldt & Jocqué, 1991   1 species

Donacosa merlini  Alderweireldt & Jocqué, 1991

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017754

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Description
Male

Living specimens: prosoma dark brown to black, densely covered with pink hairs, a patch of white hairs promesal of each posterior lateral eye. Prosoma length: 7.91-8.08 mm, prosoma width: 5.50-5.66 mm. Sternum yellowish brown. Legs: dorsal side of femora densely covered with pink hairs, ventral side bluish grey, remaining segments covered with pale hairs, slightly yellowish on tarsi. Opisthosoma dark grey, dorsum with paler patches, venter pale yellowish brown.

Body length male: 16.66-17.24 mm
Female

Living specimens: prosoma dark brown to black, covered with pale hairs. Prosoma length: 6.50-7.50 mm, prosoma width: 4.16-5.0 mm. Sternum yellowish brown. Legs yellow, with dark hairs, femora dorsally with broad, black and brown stripes, ventrally and laterally some dark patches; tibiae with short mesal and lateral dark stripe. Opisthosoma dark grey to dark brownish, dorsum with paler transverse bars in posterior half, sides and venter pale grey.

Body length female: 13.16-16 mm
Additional information

Burrows of approx. 19 cm depth, in Pinus woodlands.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2025): Spain
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Alderweireldt & Jocqué 1991)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Alderweireldt & Jocqué 1991)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Alderweireldt & Jocqué 1991)

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male Bulbus, ventral view
(Alderweireldt & Jocqué 1991)

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male Bulbus, prolateral-ventral view
(Alderweireldt & Jocqué 1991)

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male Embolus
(Alderweireldt & Jocqué 1991)

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male Prosoma, dorsal view
(Alderweireldt & Jocqué 1991)

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male Prosoma, lateral view
(Alderweireldt & Jocqué 1991)

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male Prosoma, frontal view
(Alderweireldt & Jocqué 1991)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Alderweireldt & Jocqué 1991)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Alderweireldt & Jocqué 1991)

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female Prosoma, dorsal view
(Alderweireldt & Jocqué 1991)

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female Prosoma, lateral view
(Alderweireldt & Jocqué 1991)

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female Prosoma, frontal view
(Alderweireldt & Jocqué 1991)

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.

Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Alderweireldt M, Jocqué R (1991) A remarkable new genus of wolf spiders from southwestern Spain (Araneae, Lycosidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie 61: 103-111 pdf

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

WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
07-01-2014 Image insert