Nearctic States & Provinces: AB ON YT AK CO MT NH SD
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/17373
Alopecosa aculeata (Clerck, 1757)
FAMILY: LYCOSIDAE Sundevall, 1833
Genus: Alopecosa Simon, 1885
Species: Alopecosa aculeata (Clerck, 1757)
Author of this page: Shorthouse, David P. (Page complete and awaiting review)
General Comments: This species is distributed from Alaska to Newfoundland and Labrador, south to Arizona and Connecticut. It is also found in Europe and Asia (Dondale & Redner, 1990).
Common Names
Family Common Name:
wolf spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: Holarctic
Nearctic States & Provinces:
AB ON YT AK CO MT NH SD
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
Natural History, Phenology & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:‡
ground runners
‡Feeding guild when noted defined by Uetz, G. W., J. Halaj, and A. B. Cady. 1999. Guild structure of spiders in major crops. Journal of Arachnology 27:270-280.
Recorded Habitats:
sunlit forest glades, shrubby meadows (Dondale & Redner, 1990).
Life & Natural History:
Adult males have been collected from late April to October and adult females from May to the middle of November (Dondale & Redner, 1990). Egg sacs with 95-165 eggs have been recorded.
Seasonality of Specimen Records:
Image(s) of Habitus:
(images not yet available)
Details About Males
Description:
The carapace has darker lines that radiate out from the dorsal groove. The lateral areas of the carapace are red-brown to black in colour. There are no submarginal bands. Femora I and II and tibia I are darker than other segments. The femora sometimes have dark rings. The abdomen has a pair of dark, latreral bands, which sometimes break into a series of spots toward the posterior or connect to form chevrons. The heart mark is dark and the venter is pale red-brown. Palp: lacks terminal macrosetae. The terminal aophysis is small, pale. The embolus is straight at its base. The tip of the median apophysis has a flat, mesally directed tooth (Dondale & Redner, 1990).
Male Dimensions:
A+B = 9.5 mm
A = 4.29 mm
C = 3.07 mm
Image of External Male Genitalia:
(image not yet available)
Details About Females
Description:
Coloring like in the male but the carapace sometimes has faint submarginal bands. Legs with femora I, II and tibia I not darker than other segments. Epigynum: hooded with two deep cavities. Median septum has a pair of internal longitudinal ridges at the midline (Dondale & Redner, 1990).
Female Dimensions:
A+B = 11.3 mm
A = 4.31 mm
C = 3.16 mm
Image of Epigynum:
(image not yet available)
Descriptions Source:
Dondale, C. D. & J. H. Redner. 1990. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 17. The wolf spiders, nurseryweb spiders, and lynx spiders of Canada and Alaska, Araneae: Lycosidae, Pisauridae, and Oxyopidae. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1856: 1-383.
Synonyms and Chresonyms†
| Alopecosa aculeata Clerck 1757 |
| Araneus aculeatus Clerck 1757 |
| Alopecosa aculeata Clerck 1758 |
| Lycosa ephippium Hahn 1829 |
| Lycosa meridiana Hahn 1831 |
| Lycosa nivalis Sundevall 1833 |
| Tarentula nivalis C. L. Koch 1850 |
| Tarentula taeniata Thorell 1856 |
| Lycosa cursor Westring 1861 |
| Tarentula taeniata Ohlert 1867 |
| Tarentula aculeata Thorell 1872 |
| Tarentula andrenivora Fickert 1875 |
| Lycosa pulverulenta Kulczynski 1882 |
| Lycosa trabalis Becker 1882 |
| Tarentula aculeata Dahl 1883 |
| Tarentula meridiana Dahl 1883 |
| Lycosa beanii Emerton 1894 |
| Tarentula aculeata Bösenberg 1903 |
| Lycosa beanii Chamberlin 1908 |
| Tarentula aculeata Dahl 1908 |
| Tarentula aculeata Järvi 1908 |
| Tarentula aculeata Kulczynski 1909 |
| Lycosa aculeata Lessert 1910 |
| Alopecosa beanii Petrunkevitch 1911 |
| Tarentula aculeata Dahl & Dahl 1927 |
| Tarentula aculeata Palmgren 1939 |
| Tarentula aculeata Chamberlin & Ivie 1947 |
| Tarentula aculeata Holm 1947 |
| Tarentula aculeata Kaston 1948 |
| Tarentula aculeata Schenkel 1950 |
| Alopecosa aculeata Roewer 1955 |
| Alopecosa aculeata Muller 1958 |
| Alopecosa aculeata Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969 |
| Alopecosa aculeata Azheganova 1971 |
| Alopecosa aculeata Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971 |
| Alopecosa aculeata Miller 1971 |
| Alopecosa aculeata Loksa 1972 |
| Alopecosa aculeata Dondale & Redner 1979 |
| Alopecosa aculeata Izmailova 1989 |
| Alopecosa aculeata Dondale & Redner 1990 |
| Alopecosa aculeata Kronestedt 1990 |
| Alopecosa aculeata Heimer & Nentwig 1991 |
| Alopecosa aculeata Tanaka 1992 |
| Alopecosa aculeata Yin et al. 1997 |
| Alopecosa aculeata Roberts 1998 |
| Alopecosa aculeata Song, Zhu & Chen 1999 |
| Alopecosa aculeata Song, Zhu & Chen 2001 |
| Alopecosa aculeata Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
| Alopecosa aculeata Almquist 2005 |
Taxonomic References†
Almquist, S. 2005. Swedish Araneae, part 1: families Atypidae to Hahniidae (Linyphiidae excluded). Insect Syst. Ecol., Suppl. 62: 1-284.
Azheganova, N. S. 1971. Pauki-volki (Lycosidae): Permskoi oblasti. Perm, Ministerstvo prosveshcheniya RSFSR, pp. 1-21.
Becker, L. 1882. Les Arachnides de Belgique. I. Ann. Mus. Roy. Hist. natur. Belg. 10: 1-246.
Bösenberg, W. 1903. Die Spinnen Deutschlands. V, VI. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 14: 385-465.
Chamberlin, R. V. 1908. Revision of North American spiders of the family Lycosidae. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 60: 158-318.
Chamberlin, R. V. & W. Ivie. 1947. The spiders of Alaska. Bull. Univ. Utah 37(10): 1-103.
Clerck, C. 1757. Svenska spindlar, uti sina hufvud-slågter indelte samt under några och sextio särskildte arter beskrefne och med illuminerade figurer uplyste. Stockholmiae, 154 pp.
Dahl, F. 1908. Die Lycosiden oder Wolfsspinnen Deutschlands und ihre Stellung im Haushalt der Natur. Nach statistichen Untersuchungen dargestellt. Nov. Act. Acad. Caes. Leopold.-Carol. 88: 175-678.
Dahl, F. 1883. Analytische Bearbeitung der Spinnen Norddeutschlands mit einer anatomisch-biologischen Einleitung. Schrift. naturw. Ver. Schleswig-Holstein 5: 13-88.
Dahl, F. & M. Dahl. 1927. Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea. Lycosidae s. lat. (Wolfspinnen im weiteren Sinne). In Die Tierwelt Deutschlands. Jena, 5: 1-80.
Dondale, C. D. & J. H. Redner. 1990. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 17. The wolf spiders, nurseryweb spiders, and lynx spiders of Canada and Alaska, Araneae: Lycosidae, Pisauridae, and Oxyopidae. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1856: 1-383.
Dondale, C. D. & J. H. Redner. 1979. Revision of the wolf spider genus Alopecosa Simon in North America (Araneae: Lycosidae). Can. Ent. 111: 1033-1055.
Emerton, J. H. 1894. Canadian spiders. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 9: 400-429.
Fickert, C. 1875. Myriopoden und Araneiden vom Kamme des Riesengenbirges. Ein Beitrag zur Faunistik der Subalpinen Region Schlesiens. Zeitschr. f. Entom., Breslau 2: 1-48
Fuhn, I. E. & F. Niculescu-Burlacu. 1971. Fam. Lycosidae. Fauna Republicii Socialiste România (Arachnida) 5(3): 1-253.
Hahn, C. W. 1831. Die Arachniden. Nürnberg, Erster Band, pp. 1-24.
Hahn, C. W. 1829. Monographie der Spinnen. Nürnberg, Heft 5, pp. 1-2, 4 pls.
Heimer, S. & W. Nentwig. 1991. Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Verlag Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp.
Holm, Å. 1947. Svensk Spindelfauna III. Oxyopidae, Lycosidae, Pisauridae. Stockholm, pp. 1-48.
Izmailova, M. V. 1989. [Fauna of Spiders of South Part of Eastern Siberia]. Irkutsk, State Univ. Publ., 184 pp.
Järvi, T. H. 1908. Üeber die Vaginalsysteme der Lycosiden Thor. Zool. Anz. 32: 754-758.
Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.
Koch, C. L. 1850. Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. Nürnberg, Heft 5, pp. 1-77.
Kronestedt, T. 1990. Separation of two species standing as Alopecosa aculeata (Clerck) by morphological, behavioural and ecological characters, with remarks on related species in the pulverulenta group (Araneae, Lycosidae). Zoologica Scr. 19: 203-
Kulczynski, W. 1909. Fragmenta Arachnologica. XI-XIII. Bull. Acad. Cracovie 1909: 427-472.
Kulczynski, W. 1882. Spinnen aus der Tatra und den westlichen Beskiden. Krakau, pp. 1-34.
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Loksa, I. 1972. Araneae II. Fauna Hungariae 109: 1-112.
Lugetti, G. & P. Tongiorgi. 1969. Ricerche sul genere Alopecosa Simon (Araneae-Lycosidae). Atti Soc. tosc. Sci. nat. (B) 76: 1-100.
Menge, A. 1879. Preussische Spinnen. X. Fortsetzung. Schrift. naturf. Ges. Danzig (N. F.) 4: 495-560.
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Petrunkevitch, A. 1911. A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greeland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 29: 1-791.
Roberts, M. J. 1998. Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp.
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†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/LYCOSIDAE.html
Natural History References
Dondale, C. D. & J. H. Redner. 1990. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 17. The wolf spiders, nurseryweb spiders, and lynx spiders of Canada and Alaska, Araneae: Lycosidae, Pisauridae, and Oxyopidae. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1856: 1-383.
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Alopecosa Simon, 1885‡‡
A. accentuata (Latreille, 1817) ...............Palearctic
A. alpicola (Simon, 1876) ...............Palearctic
A. barbipes (Sundevall, 1833) ...............Palearctic
A. cuneata (Clerck, 1757) ...............Palearctic
A. cursor (Hahn, 1831) ...............Palearctic
A. exasperans (O. P.-Cambridge, 1877) ...............Canada, Greenland
A. fabrilis (Clerck, 1757) ...............Palearctic
A. hirtipes (Kulczynski, 1907) ...............Canada, Alaska, Russia
A. inquilina (Clerck, 1757) ...............Palearctic
A. kochi (Keyserling, 1877) ...............North America
A. mariae (Dahl, 1908) ...............Palearctic
A. mutabilis (Kulczynski, 1908) ...............Russia, Alaska
A. oahuensis (Keyserling, 1890) ...............Hawaii
A. pictilis (Emerton, 1885) ...............Holarctic
A. pinetorum (Thorell, 1856) ...............Palearctic
A. pulverulenta (Clerck, 1757) ...............Palearctic
A. schmidti (Hahn, 1835) ...............Palearctic
A. sulzeri (Pavesi, 1873) ...............Palearctic
A. taeniata (C. L. Koch, 1835) ...............Palearctic
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution
Page Reference:
Shorthouse, David P. submitted. Taxonomic and natural history description of FAM: LYCOSIDAE, Alopecosa aculeata (Clerck, 1757).
In: The Nearctic Spider Database. David P. Shorthouse (editor). World Wide Web electronic publication. Direct link: http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/17373 (Accessed: 10/7/2008 2:21:50 PM).
Author Email Address: dshorthouse@eol.org
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