Alopecosa mariae (Dahl, 1908)
Description
Male
Male palp with tegular apophysis, slantingly truncated distally.
Prosoma brown, longitudinal stripe distinct, bright radial stripes. Legs yellowish, laterally with black stripes. Opisthosoma dark brown, ventrally black.
Female
Epigynal median part at least twice as wide as long.
Body length female: 12 mmAdditional information
In open, dry, vegetationless places in lowland areas and low mountain range
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Loksa 1972)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)
Pedipalp
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Buchar & Thaler 2004)
Tegular apophysis
(Loksa 1972)
Tegular apophysis
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)
Epigyne
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)
Epigyne
(Loksa 1972)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Kolosváry 1934b)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Buchar & Thaler 2004)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Buchar & Thaler 2004)
Epigyne
(Birer et al. 2024)
Vulva
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)
Vulva
(Loksa 1972)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Buchar & Thaler 2004)
Vulva, ventral view
(Buchar & Thaler 2004)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Birer et al. 2024)
Habitus
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)
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.
References
Birer E, Coşar İ, Danışman T (2024) On the occurrence of the lycosid spider Alopecosa mariae (Dahl, 1908) (Araneae: Lycosidae) in Türkiye. Munis Entomology and Zoology 19: 160-162 
Biteniekytė M, Rėlys V (2012) The checklist of Lithuanian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Biologija 57: 148-158
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
Buchar J, Thaler K (2004) Ein Artproblem bei Wolfspinnen: Zur Differenzierung und vikarianten Verbreitung von Alopecosa striatipes (C.L. Koch) und A. mariae (Dahl) (Araneae, Lycosidae). In Thaler, K. (ed.), Diversität und Biologie von Webspinnen, Skorpionen und anderen Spinnentieren. Denisia 12: 271-280
Deltshev C, Komnenov M, Blagoev G, Georgiev T, Lazarov S, Stojkoska E, Naumova M (2013) Faunistic diversity of spiders (Araneae) in Galichitsa Mountain (FYR Macedonia). Biodiversity Data Journal 1(e977): 1-70
Fuhn I E, Niculescu-Burlacu F (1971) Fam. Lycosidae. Fauna Republicii Socialiste România (Arachnida) 5 (3): 1-253
Gajdoš P, Svatoň J, Sloboda J (1999) Katalóg pavúkov Slovenska. Catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Ústav kr. ekol. SAV, Bratislava, 337 pp.
Grbić G, Hänggi A, Savić D (2015) New faunistic records of spiders (Arachnida, Areneae [sic]) from the Fruška Gora mountain, northern Serbia. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 67: 479-486
Hirna A, Zhukovets E (2022) Catalogue of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Lviv oblast (Ukraine). National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Ecology of the Carpathians, Lviv, 311 pp.
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
Kolosváry G (1934b) Beiträge zur Spinnenfauna Siebenbürgens. Folia Zoologica et Hydrobiologica, Rigā 7: 38-43
Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91
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Lugetti G, Tongiorgi P (1969) Ricerche sul genere Alopecosa Simon (Araneae-Lycosidae). Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali B76: 1-100
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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
Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184
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
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2