Alopecosa alpicola (Simon, 1876)
Description
Male
Prosoma brown, median band reddish and spasely covered with white hairs. Prosoma length: 4.0-5.2 mm. Sternum reddish brown. Legs yellowish, femora, patellae and tibiae darkly annulated or with dark spots. Opisthosoma reddish brown to olive brown, cardiac mark light, bordered with black, with 3-4 chevrons.
Female
Prosoma length: 4.8-6.1 mm.
Body length female: 14.2-16.6 mmAdditional information
In the Alps, a closely related species of A. sulzeri (Pavesi 1873), hard to distinguish
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)
Pedipalp, lateral view
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)
Epigyne, variation
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)
Vulva
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)
Habitus
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)
Distribution List
References
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Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Lugetti G, Tongiorgi P (1969) Ricerche sul genere Alopecosa Simon (Araneae-Lycosidae). Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali B76: 1-100
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2