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Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Acantholycosa  Dahl, 1908   4 species

Acantholycosa pedestris  (Simon, 1876)

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 2024): Alps (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Slovenia)
Phenology
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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   (no references) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Switzerland   (no references) |||
References

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

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

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). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf