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Agelenidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Lycosoides  Lucas, 1846   15 species

Lycosoides variegata (Simon, 1870)

Description
Male

Prosoma length: 3.5 mm, prosoma width: 2.2 mm. Prosoma brown-yellow, ocular area darker. Legs brown-yellow. Opisthosoma: dorsum with a triangle in anterior part and a indistinct median band, venter grey-yellow.

Body length male: 7.1 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 3.3 mm, prosoma width: 2.6 mm.

Body length female: 8.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
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Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain, Gibraltar, Morocco, Algeria
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Distribution List
Algeria   (Bosmans et al., 2022; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Gibraltar (UK)   (Bosmans et al., 2022) ||| Morocco   (Bosmans et al., 2022; Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

Blauwe R de (1980a) Revision de la famille des Agelenidae (Araneae) de la région Mediterranéenne (2e partie). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 52(1): 1-54 pdf

Bosmans R, Lecigne S, Benhalima S, Abrous-Kherbouche A (2022) The genus Lycosoides Lucas, 1846 in the Maghreb region, with the description of five new species (Araneae: Agelenidae). Arachnology 19: 316-340 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Murphy J, Murphy F (1978) The male of Lycosoides crassivulva (Denis) (Araneae: Agelenidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4: 254-257 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
19-12-2024 Distribution update Detail
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