Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Aulonia  C. L. Koch, 1847   2 species

Aulonia kratochvili  Dunin, Buchar & Absolon, 1986

Description
Male

Colouration of prosoma and opisthosoma as in females. Prosoma length: 2.2-2.7 mm. Legs yellow, only coxa and femur I brown.

Body length male: 4.25 mm
Female

Prosoma brown, radial stripes indistinct, white median longitudinal band and white margin indistinct. Prosoma length: 2.55 mm. Chelicerae and clypeus brown, retromargin with 3 teeth. Sternum light brown. Legs yellow, femur I dark brown, femora II-IV with grey-brown ventral band. Opisthosoma: dorsum dark grey-brown, with white median longitudinal band, posterior third with indistinct, narrow, white stripes, venter grey-yellow.

Body length female: 5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan
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.

Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022; Mikhailov, 2013) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024a) ||| Turkey (Europe)   (van Helsdingen, 2013) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Helsdingen P J van (2013) A quick scan of the spider fauna of the European part of Turkey. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 33: 29-38 pdf

Kronestedt T (1997) First record of Aulonia kratochvili (Araneae, Lycosidae) from Europe. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 14: 77-80 pdf

Lecigne S (2011) Inventaire aranéologique dans la Province d’Izmir (Turquie) (Arachnida, Araneae). Le bulletin d'Arthropoda 46: 5-83 pdf

Lecigne S (2021a) A new species of Sintula (Linyphiidae), redescription of Brigittea innocens (Dictynidae) and eight spider species newly recorded for Turkey (Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 62: 11-34 pdf

Mikhailov K G (2013) The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Varol M İ, Akan Z, Özdemır A, Kutbay F, Ozaslan M (2007) The spider Aulonia kratochvili (Araneae: Lycosidae) new to the Turkish fauna. Journal of Biological Sciences 7: 448-450 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

Updates
08-10-2021 Distribution update Detail
07-07-2021 Image insert
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24-12-2013 Distribution update Detail