Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Lycosa  Latreille, 1804   26 species

Lycosa piochardi Simon, 1876

Description
Male

Prosomalänge: 13.4 mm, prosoma width: 9.6 mm.

Female

Prosoma length: 11.2 mm, prosoma width: 8 mm.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Records from the Caucasus presumably belong to L. praegrandis
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran
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Distribution List
Armenia  Removed (Otto, 2022; Armiach Steinpress et al., 2022) ||| Azerbaijan  Removed (Otto, 2022; Armiach Steinpress et al., 2022) ||| Egypt   (Armiach Steinpress et al., 2022) ||| Georgia  Removed (Otto, 2022; Armiach Steinpress et al., 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
References

Al-Khazali A M, Al-Abbad M Y M, Fomichev A A, Kachel H S (2023) New data on the wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae) of Iraq. Ecologica Montenegrina 67: 101-116 pdf

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 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

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 pdf

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

Simon E (1876b) Etudes arachnologiques. 4e mémoire. VII. Révision de espèces européennes du groupe de la Lycosa tarentula Rossi. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (5) 6: 57-91 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
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