Alopecosa sulzeri (Pavesi, 1873)
Description
Male
Male palp with large tegular apophysis, ± quadrangular.
Prosoma red-brown, median stripe reddish yellow, lateral longitudinal stripes vague.
Prosoma length male: 6.0-6.3 mm. Legs yellowish. Femur vaguely annulated. Opisthosoma ventrally black.
Female
Epigynal median part almost as wide as long. Anterior epigynal pockets separated by epigynal median part, its margins merge with epigynal pockets.
Prosoma length female: 5.0-6.6 mm.
Additional information
in dry and sunny areas of the mountains and low mountain range, rare in the lowland, frequent in forest steppes in East Europe
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Loksa 1972)
Pedipalp
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Hajdamowicz et al. 2020)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Hajdamowicz et al. 2020)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Hajdamowicz et al. 2020)
Tegular apophysis
(Loksa 1972)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Hajdamowicz et al. 2020)
Epigyne
(Wiehle 1967)
Epigyne
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)
Epigyne
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)
Epigyne
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)
Epigyne
(Loksa 1972)
Epigyne
(Hajdamowicz et al. 2020)
Vulva
(Wiehle 1967)
Vulva
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)
Vulva
(Loksa 1972)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Hajdamowicz et al. 2020)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Hajdamowicz et al. 2020)
Vulva, ventral view
(Hajdamowicz et al. 2020)
Habitus
(Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971)
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
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