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Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Alopecosa  Simon, 1885   58 species

Alopecosa steppica Ponomarev, 2007

Description
Male

Prosoma length: 4.8 mm.

Body length male: 9 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 4.6 mm.

Body length female: 9.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Ukraine, Russia (Europe), Kazakhstan
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Russia, Central   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

Polchaninova N, Gnelitsa V, Terekhova V, Iosypchuk A (2021) New and rare spider species (Arachnida, Araneae) from Ukraine. Zoodiversity 55: 95-112 pdf

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

Ponomarev A V (2007b) New taxa of spiders (Aranei) from the south of Russia and western Kazakhstan. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 3: 87-95 pdf

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Ponomarev A V, Turbanov I S, Shmatko V Y (2025a) New data on the spider fauna (Aranei) of Volga Region, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 34: 415-425 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
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