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Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Acantholycosa  Dahl, 1908   4 species

Acantholycosa pedestris (Simon, 1876)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017196

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Description

Prosoma almost black with brighter median stripe. Sternum almost black. Legs almost black. Femur dorsally slightly brighter. Tarsus I dorsally with very long, projecting bristle. Opisthosoma black with yellowish hairs.

Body length male: 7.5 mm
Body length female: 11.0 mm
Additional information

on rocky debris and rocks, in high alpine region, above timberline

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Alps (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Slovenia)
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1965)

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male Pedipalp
(Dahl 1937)

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male Pedipalp
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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male Pedipalp
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1965)

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female Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Epigyne
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1965)

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female Epigyne
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1965)

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female Vulva
(Dahl 1937)

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female Vulva
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Vulva
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1965)

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Leg
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1965)

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Habitus
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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Habitus
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1965)

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) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) |||
References

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

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

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

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

Lugetti G, Tongiorgi P (1965) Revisione delle specie italiane dei generi Arctosa C. L. Koch e Tricca Simon con note su una Acantholycosa della Alpi Giulie (Aran. Lycosidae). Redia 49: 165-228 pdf

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

Updates
09-09-2025 Distribution update Detail