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
"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.
References
Cardoso P, Morano E (2010) The Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 2495: 1-52 
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
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 (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2