Alopecosa cuneata (Clerck, 1757)
Description
Prosoma reddish brown, median and lateral longitudinal stripes reddish yellow. Prosoma length: 3.2-4.2 mm. Sternum red-brown, with yellow median stripe. Legs reddish yellow. Tibia I male: distinctly thickened and darker than other segments. Opisthosoma dorsally with distinct pattern.
Body length male: 6.5-7 mmBody length female: 7-8.5 mm
Additional information
in steppes, heathland and similar, open areas, forest edges, up to the middle altitude range of mountains
Frequency: Locally frequent
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Wiebes 1959)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Locket & Millidge 1951)
Pedipalp
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)
Pedipalp
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)
Pedipalp
(Roberts 1998)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Embolus
(Kronestedt 1990)
Embolus
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Tegular apophysis
(Loksa 1972)
Tegular apophysis, frontal view
(Kronestedt 1990)
Leg I
(Locket & Millidge 1951)
Tibia I
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)
Tibia I
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)
Tibia
(Loksa 1972)
Habitus
(Wiebes 1959)
Tegular apophysis
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)
Epigyne
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1998)
Epigyne
(Loksa 1972)
Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1951)
Epigyne
(Wiebes 1959)
Epigyne
(Locket et al. 1974)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva
(Azheganova 1968)
Vulva
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)
Vulva
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)
Vulva
(Loksa 1972)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva
(Kronestedt 1990)
Vulva
(Kronestedt 1990)
Habitus
(Azheganova 1968)
Habitus
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)
References
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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)
Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152 
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S (2019) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2019 [last updated 1 June 2019], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
Fuhn I E, Niculescu-Burlacu (1971) Fam. Lycosidae. Fauna Republicii Socialiste Romania (Arachnida) 5 (3): 1-253
Helsdingen P J van (2010a) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org
Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91
Kronestedt T (1990) Separation of two species standing as Alopecosa aculeata (Clerck) by morphological, behavioural and ecological characters, with remarks on related species in the pulverulenta group (Araneae, Lycosidae). Zoologica Scr 19: 203-225
Locket G H, Millidge A F (1951) British Spiders 1. Ray Soc London
Locket G H, Millidge A F, Merrett P (1974) British Spiders 3. Ray Soc London
Loksa I (1972) Pokok II-Araneae II. Fauna Hungariae 109: 3.1-3.112
Lugetti G, Tongiorgi P (1969) Ricerche sul genere Alopecosa Simon (Araneae-Lycosidae). Atti Soc Tosc Sci Nat Mem B 76: 1-100
Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)
Otto S (2019) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 10.2019. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online Catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other Arachnid Orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). http://araneae.it. Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152
Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App
Roberts M J (1998) Spinnengids. Tirion Natuur Baarn, Netherlands
Wiebes J T (1959) The Lycosidae and Pisauridae (Araneae) of the Netherlands. Zool Verh 42: 1-78
World Spider Catalog (2019) World Spider Catalog, version 20.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.09.2019) doi: 10.24436/2
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