Pyrenecosa rupicola (Dufour, 1821)
Description
Prosoma black-brown or grey-brown. Legs dark brown or yellow-brown, partly annulated with black. Opisthosoma black-brown or grey-brown.
Body length male: 7.9-8.6 mmBody length female: 8.2-10 mm
Additional information
western Alps, Pyrenees and furthermore Spain (Cantabria, Sierra de Guadarrama, Sierra Nevada), 2000-3500 m
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Buchar & Thaler 1993)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Breitling 2020)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Ferrández 2024b)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ferrández 2024b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ferrández 2024b)
Tip of embolus
(Buchar & Thaler 1993)
Embolic division
(Buchar & Thaler 1993)
Embolic division
(Buchar & Thaler 1993)
Epigyne
(Buchar & Thaler 1993)
Epigyne
(Ferrández 2024b)
Epigyne
(Ferrández 2024b)
Vulva
(Ferrández 2024b)
Distribution List
References
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 
Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362
Buchar J, Thaler K (1993) Die Arten der Gattung Acantholycosa in Westeuropa (Arachnida, Araneida: Lycosidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 100: 327-341
Ferrández M Á (2024b) Pyrenocosa rupicola (Dufour, 1820) (Araeae: Lycosidae) en España. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 44: 178-183
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
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2