Arctosa renidescens Buchar & Thaler, 1995
Description
Male
Prosoma reddish brown with black pattern. Chelicerae black-brown. Legs bright reddish brown to black-brown. Ventral side of coxa yellowish. Opisthosoma dorsally bright reddish brown, anteriorly with white haired V-shaped spot between 2 grey spots, posteriorly with 4 spots, sides grey, ventrally light brown, yellowish margined.
Cribellum anterior spinnerets yellow, posterior spinnerets light brown.
Female
Females similar in colour, but opisthosoma ventrally yellow.
Body length female: 9-10 mmAdditional information
1500-2100 m
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Buchar 1981)
Pedipalp
(Buchar 1981)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1965)
Pedipalp
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1965)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Déjean & Villepoux 2019)
Pedipalp, ventro-retrolateral view
(Déjean & Villepoux 2019)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Buchar & Thaler 1995a)
Embolic division
(Buchar & Thaler 1995a)
Tegular apophysis, ventral view
(Déjean & Villepoux 2019)
Prosoma
(Buchar 1981)
Epigyne
(Buchar 1981)
Epigyne
(Denis 1963b)
Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Epigyne
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1965)
Vulva
(Buchar 1981)
Vulva
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1965)
Habitus
(Heimer & Nentwig 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.
References
Buchar J (1981) Zur Lycosiden-Fauna von Tirol (Araneae: Lycosidae). Věstník Československé Zoologické Společnosti v Praze 45: 4-13 
Buchar J, Thaler K (1995a) Die Wolfspinnen von Österreich 2: Gattungen Arctosa, Tricca, Trochosa (Arachnida, Araneida: Lycosidae) - Faunistisch-tiergeographische Übersicht. Carinthia II 185/105: 481-498
Buchar J, Thaler K (1997) Die Wolfspinnen von Österreich 4 (Schluß): Gattung Pardosa max. p. (Arachnida, Araneae: Lycosidae) - Faunistisch-tiergeographische Übersicht. Carinthia II 187/107: 515-539
Déjean S, Villepoux O (2019) Découverte d’Arctosa renidescens Buchar & Thaler, 1995 (Araneae, Lycosidae), espèce nouvelle pour la faune de France, dans le Parc Naturel Régional du Queyras. Revue Arachnologique (2) 6: 20-23
Denis J (1963b) Araignées des Dolomites. Atti del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti 121: 253-271
Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin
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
Lugetti G, Tongiorgi P (1965) Revisione delle specie italiane dei generi Arctosa C. L. Koch e Tricca Simon con note su una Acantholycosa della Alpi Giulie (Aran. Lycosidae). Redia 49: 165-228
Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2