Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Alopecosa  Simon, 1885   56 species

Alopecosa barbipes  (Sundevall, 1833)

Description
Male

Prosoma brownish, median band lighter. Chelicerae greyish brown. Stenrum dark brown. Legs yellowish grey, ventral side of femora, tibiae and metatarsi I-II blackish brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum with angular transverse lines in posterior part, lighter than in females (Almquist, 2005).

Body length male: 7.5-9 mm
Female

Prosoma dark brown, cephalic part laterally with white hairs, median band yellowish brown edged by white hairs. Chelicerae almost black, frontally covered with white hairs. Sternum dark brown to black, with lighter median stripe. Legs brown, with darker annulation. Opisthosoma: dorsum brown, with light median band and light brown cardiac mark, edged by black lines and angles, posterior half with black transverse lines, some forming angles, venter light yellowish brown (Almquist, 2005).

Body length female: 7.8-10 mm
Additional information

Distribution boundary in Germany see https://atlas.arages.de/species/6024 and https://atlas.arages.de/species/730

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Omitted from the Bulgarian checklist (Deltshev pers. comm.), records from Balkan doubtful; Luxembourg (Kreuels et al. 2019): "barbipes" interpreted as farinosa
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Europe
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.

Andorra   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Belgium   (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Denmark   (no references) ||| Estonia   (no references) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| France   (no references) ||| France / Corsica   (no references) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Ireland   (Lavery, 2019) ||| Lithuania   (no references) ||| Montenegro   (no references) ||| Netherlands   (no references) ||| Northern Ireland   (Lavery, 2019) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Poland   (Menge, 1869) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Serbia   (no references) ||| Slovenia   (no references) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001; Almquist, 2005) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
References

Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129 pdf

Almquist S (2005) Swedish Araneae, part 1 – families Atypidae to Hahniidae (Linyphiidae excluded). Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 62: 1-124 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69 pdf

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

Canard A, Cruveillier M (2019) Révision des Alopecosa de France du groupe «accentuata/barbipes/farinosa» (Lycosidae, Araneae), données et distribution. Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 2: 2-19 pdf

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm pdf

Kreuels M, Staudt A, Christian S (2019) Die Spinnenfauna von Luxemburg – eine Zusammenstellung der Nachweise aus den Jahren 1906-2018 (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes luxembourgeois 121: 203-230 pdf

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001] pdf

Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212 pdf

Lecigne S (2016d) Atlas préliminaire des araignées Araneae du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais. Le Héron 48(2015): 1-236 pdf

Locket G H, Millidge A F (1951) British spiders. Vol. I. Ray Society, London, 310 pp. pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Menge A (1869) Preussische Spinnen. III. Abtheilung. Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig (N. F.) 2: 219-264 pdf

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna]. pdf

Roberts M J (1998) Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp. pdf

Wiebes J T (1959) The Lycosidae and Pisauridae (Araneae) of the Netherlands. Zoologische Verhandelingen 42: 1-78 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

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