Lycosa praegrandis C. L. Koch, 1836
Description
Male
Prosoma olive brown. Median stripe on prosoma bright, small and indistinct, with two dark longitudinal patterns, laterally with many radially scattered black bands or spots. Sternum entirely black. Legs thick and strong, greyish olive brown, black spotted or annulated, hairy, with dorsal spines. Trochanters ventrally black. Opisthosoma dark olive brown. Folium anteriorly with black pattern, medially often with undulated indistinct dorsal band with white spots, posteriorly with some horizontal white lines. Ventral side of opisthosoma dark.
Body length male: 17.8 mmFemale
Colouration as in male. Basal segments of chelicerae and pedipalps yellowish brown or orange-brown.
Prosoma length: 14 mm.
Body length female: 28.7 mmDistribution
Figures
Pedipalp
(Zyuzin & Logunov 2000)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Geci et al. 2025e)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Armiach Steinpress et al. 2022)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Geci et al. 2025e)
Tip of conductor
(Armiach Steinpress et al. 2022)
Opisthosoma, ventral view
(Geci et al. 2025e)
Habitus, ventral view
(Geci et al. 2025e)
Epigyne
(Zyuzin & Logunov 2000)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Thaler et al. 2000)
Epigyne
(Armiach Steinpress et al. 2022)
Epigyne
(Logunov 2023b)
Epigyne
(Logunov 2023b)
Epigyne
(Esyunin et al. 2024a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Armiach Steinpress et al. 2022)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Logunov 2023b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Logunov 2023b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Esyunin et al. 2024a)
Habitus, ventral view
(Esyunin et al. 2024a)
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
Armiach Steinpress I, Cohen M, Pétillon J, Chipman A D, Gavish-Regev E (2022) Lycosa Latreille, 1804 (Araneae, Lycosidae) of Israel, with a note on Geolycosa Montgomery, 1904. European Journal of Taxonomy 832: 1-54 
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
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
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
Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144
Demircan Aksan N, Topçu A (2022c) A preliminary checklist of the spider fauna of European Türkiye. Serket 19: 39-56
Esyunin S L, Ponomarev A V, Kabdrakhimov A A (2024a) The spider fauna (Aranei) of Zapadno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast of Kazakhstan. New records and taxonomic remarks. Euroasian Entomological Journal 22: 317-325&App.
Geci, D., Ibrahimi, H., Bilalli, A., Grapci-Kotori, L., Musliu, M. & Sherwood, D (2025e) Range extension for Lycosa praegrandis C.L. Koch, 1836 (Araneae: Lycosidae): first record from the Republic of Kosovo and notes on ontogenetic colour change. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 65(e202565046): 1-5
Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267
Logunov D V (2023b) Further notes on the fossorial wolf spiders of Middle Asia and the Near East (Aranei: Lycosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 32: 475-512
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App
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.
Thaler K, Buchar J, Knoflach B (2000) Notes on wolf spiders from Greece (Araneae, Lycosidae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 32: 1071-1091
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Zyuzin A A, Logunov D V (2000) New and little-known species of the Lycosidae from Azerbaijan, the Caucasus (Araneae, Lycosidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 305-319
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