Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Geolycosa  Montgomery, 1904   4 species

Geolycosa dunini  Zyuzin & Logunov, 2000

Description
Male

Prosoma light brown, with white marginal stripes, an elongated yellow spot in foveal area and yellow radial stripes. Prosoma length: 8.6 mm. Chelicerae brown, basal half frontally covered with white hairs. Legs yellow-brown, with dark brown semi-rings on segment articulations. Opisthosoma: dorsum brownish, with dark brown cardiac mark bordered by yellow stripes, sides yellow, venter dark brown.

Body length male: 17.1 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 10.20 mm. Colouration as in males, except opisthosoma dorsally without yellow stripes, instead with paired row of small yellow spots.

Body length female: 22.4 mm
Additional information

In grassland at 200 -1200 m asl.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan
Phenology
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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.

Armenia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) |||
References

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.

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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 pdf

Updates
31-01-2024 Image insert
31-12-2013 Datasheet update Detail
24-12-2013 Image insert