Halocosa cereipes (L. Koch, 1878)
Description
Male
Prosoma length: 3.8-4.3 mm, prosoma width: 2.75-3.2 mm.
Body length male: 8.0-9.0 mmFemale
Prosoma light brown, with light median band, eye field darker. Prosoma length: 4.0 mm, prosoma width: 3.1 mm. Sternum light grey, with yellow median band. Legs yellow, with grey annulations, tibia with 2 light and 2 dark rings. Opisthosoma: dorsum light brownish with pattern consisting of spots of various sizes, cardiac mark dark, posterior half with large transverse spot, venter light yellow.
Body length female: 10.0 mmDistribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ponomarev & Tsvetkov 2004)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wang et al. 2024)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wang et al. 2024)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wang et al. 2024)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wang et al. 2024)
Bulbus, apical view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Wang et al. 2024)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Wang et al. 2024)
Terminal part with tip of embolus, ventral view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Terminal part with tip of embolus, ventral view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Terminal part with tip of embolus, ventral view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Terminal part with tip of embolus, ventral view
(Wang et al. 2024)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Wang et al. 2024)
Chelicerae, ventral view
(Wang et al. 2024)
Tibia I, ventral view
(Wang et al. 2024)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Wang et al. 2024)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Marusik et al. 2003b)
Epigyne/vulva, ventral view
(Marusik et al. 2003b)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Ponomarev & Tsvetkov 2004)
Epigyne
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Epigyne
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Epigyne
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Epigyne
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Epigyne
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Epigyne
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Epigyne
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Epigyne
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Epigyne
(Wang et al. 2024)
Epigyne
(Wang et al. 2024)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Marusik et al. 2003b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Vulva, lateral view
(Azarkina & Trilikauskas 2019)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Wang et al. 2024)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Wang et al. 2024)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Wang et al. 2024)
Distribution List
References
Azarkina G N, Trilikauskas L A (2019) Halocosa gen. n., a new genus of Lycosidae (Araneae) from the Palaearctic, with a redescription of H. cereipes (L. Koch, 1878) Zootaxa 4629: 555-570 
Marusik Y M, Guseinov E F, Koponen S (2003b) Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Azerbaijan. 2. Critical survey of wolf spiders (Lycosidae) found in the country with description of three new species and brief review of Palaearctoc Evippa Simon, 1885. Arthropoda Selecta 12: 47-65
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.
Ponomarev A V, Tsvetkov A S (2004) The generalized data on spiders (Aranei) of the Nature Research "Rostovski". Trudy Gosudarstvennogo Zapovednika "Rostovskii" 3: 84-104
Wang L Y, Irfan M, Marusik Y M, Zhang Z S (2024) Review of the wolf spider genus Halocosa Azarkina & Trilikauskas, 2019 from China (Araneae, Lycosidae). ZooKeys 1218: 121-133
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2