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Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Acantholycosa  Dahl, 1908   4 species

Acantholycosa lignaria (Clerck, 1757)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017193

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Description

Prosoma black, with brighter median stripes. Sternum dark, almost black. Legs dark brown, with dark spots. Tibia I laterally with one row of 4 spines. Opisthosoma almost black, yellowish haired.

Body length male: 6.5 mm
Body length female: 8.0 mm
Additional information

Mostly on dead wood.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Denmark: https://www.naturbasen.dk/art/43394/acantholycosa-lignaria
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), China
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Dahl 1937)

species

male Pedipalp
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)

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male Pedipalp
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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male Pedipalp, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Pfliegler et al. 2012)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Pfliegler et al. 2012)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Zhang et al. 2025a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Zhang et al. 2025a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Zhang et al. 2025a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Zhang et al. 2025a)

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male Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Zhang et al. 2025a)

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male Bulbus, ventral view
(Zhang et al. 2025a)

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male Embolic division, ventral view
(Zhang et al. 2025a)

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female Epigyne
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)

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female Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Fjellberg unpubl.)

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female Vulva
(Dahl 1937)

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female Vulva
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Pfliegler et al. 2012)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Pfliegler et al. 2012)

species

female Tibia I, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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Tibia IV
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)

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Habitus
(Dahl 1937)

species

Habitus
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)

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.

Austria   (Buchar & Thaler, 1997) ||| Belarus   (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Bulgaria   (Naumova et al., 2021) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Denmark   (no references) ||| Estonia   (Vilbaste, 1987) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Hungary   (Pfliegler et al., 2012) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Latvia   (Cera, 2018) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Lithuania   (Biteniekytė & Rėlys, 2012) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Russia, Central   (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Russia, Northern   (no references) ||| Russia, Western   (no references) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) ||| Ukraine   (Hirna et al., 2016) |||
References

Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129 pdf

Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244 pdf

Biteniekytė M, Rėlys V (2012) The checklist of Lithuanian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Biologija 57: 148-158 pdf

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 pdf

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 pdf

Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152 pdf

Dahl M (1937) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, VIII: Hahniidae, Argyronetidae. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 33: 100-118 pdf

Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1996a) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Urals. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 228 pp. pdf

Fjellberg A (unpubl.) .

Fuhn I E, Niculescu-Burlacu F (1971) Fam. Lycosidae. Fauna Republicii Socialiste România (Arachnida) 5 (3): 1-253 pdf

Gajdoš P, Svatoň J, Sloboda J (1999) Katalóg pavúkov Slovenska. Catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Ústav kr. ekol. SAV, Bratislava, 337 pp.

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin pdf

Hirna A, Gnelitsa V, Zhukovets E (2016) A checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of the Chornohora Mountain massif (Ukrainian Carpathians). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 51: 16-38 pdf

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 pdf

Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311 pdf

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm pdf

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001] pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12 pdf

Naumova M, Blagoev G, Deltshev D (2021) Fifty spider species new to the Bulgarian fauna, with a review of some dubious species (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 4984: 228-257 pdf

Pfliegler W P, Pfeiffer K M, Grabolle A (2012) Some spiders (Araneae) new to the Hungarian fauna, including three genera and one family. Opuscula Zoologica, Budapest 43: 1-8 pdf

Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html pdf

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html pdf

Vilbaste A (1987) Eesti Ämblikud (Aranei). Annoteeritud nimestik. Estonian spiders (Aranei). An annotated check list. Valgus, Tallinn. 113 pp. & 512 maps on 67 unpag. pages pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 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

Zhang X Y, Zhang Z S, Wang, L Y (2025a) Review of the wolf spider genus Acantholycosa Dahl, 1908 from China (Araneae, Lycosidae). ZooKeys 1240: 239-256 pdf

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