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Alopecosa cuneata (Clerck, 1757)

FAMILY: LYCOSIDAE Sundevall, 1833
    Genus: Alopecosa Simon, 1885

        Species: Alopecosa cuneata (Clerck, 1757)

Common Names

Family Common Name:  wolf spiders
Genus Common Name:  none
Species Common Name:  none

Distribution

Global Distribution: Palearctic

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:  (not yet recorded or unknown)
Life & Natural History:  (not yet recorded or unknown)

Image(s) of Habitus:


Credit: Nieuwenhuys, Ed

Details About Males

Description:  (not yet recorded or unknown)

Image of External Male Genitalia:  (image not yet available)

Details About Females

Description:  (not yet recorded or unknown)

Image of Epigynum:  (image not yet available)

Synonyms and Chresonyms

Alopecosa cuneata Clerck 1757
Araneus cuneatus Clerck 1757
Alopecosa cuneata Clerck 1758
Lycosa cuneata Sundevall 1833
Lycosa vorax Hahn 1833
Lycosa alpica C. L. Koch 1834
Lycosa clavipes C. L. Koch 1834
Lycosa armillata Walckenaer 1837
Lycosa clavipes C. L. Koch 1847
Tarantula cuneata C. L. Koch 1850
Lycosa cuneata Westring 1861
Tarentula armillata Simon 1864
Tarentula clavipes Ohlert 1867
Tarentula cuneata Thorell 1872
Tarentula clavipes Menge 1879
Lycosa cuneata Becker 1882
Tarentula cuneata Bösenberg 1903
Tarentula cuneata Dahl 1908
Tarentula cuneata Kulczynski 1909
Tarentula cuneata Dahl & Dahl 1927
Tarentula cuneata Reimoser 1931
Lycosa cuneata Simon 1937
Tarentula cuneata Palmgren 1939
Tarentula cuneata Holm 1947
Tarentula cuneata Locket & Millidge 1951
Alopecosa cuneata Roewer 1955
Tarentula cuneata Muller 1955
Alopecosa cuneata Wiebes 1959
Alopecosa cuneata Azheganova 1968
Alopecosa cuneata Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969
Alopecosa cuneata Azheganova 1971
Alopecosa cuneata Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971
Alopecosa cuneata Loksa 1972
Alopecosa cuneata Locket, Millidge & Merrett 1974
Alopecosa cuneata Roberts 1985
Alopecosa cuneata Kronestedt 1986
Alopecosa cuneata Kronestedt 1990
Alopecosa cuneata Heimer & Nentwig 1991
Alopecosa cuneata Zyuzin 1993
Alopecosa cuneata Roberts 1995
Alopecosa cuneata Mcheidze 1997
Alopecosa cuneata Yin et al. 1997
Alopecosa cuneata Roberts 1998
Alopecosa cuneata 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.

Azheganova, N. S. 1968. Kratkii opredelitel' paukov (Aranei) lesnoi i lesostepnoi zony SSSR. Akademia Nauk SSSR, pp. 1-149.

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.

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. & M. Dahl. 1927. Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea. Lycosidae s. lat. (Wolfspinnen im weiteren Sinne). In Die Tierwelt Deutschlands. Jena, 5: 1-80.

Fuhn, I. E. & F. Niculescu-Burlacu. 1971. Fam. Lycosidae. Fauna Republicii Socialiste România (Arachnida) 5(3): 1-253.

Hahn, C. W. 1833. Die Arachniden. Nürnberg, Erster Band, pp. 77-129; Zweite Band, pp. 1-16.

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.

Koch, C. L. 1850. Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. Nürnberg, Heft 5, pp. 1-77.

Koch, C. L. 1847. Die Arachniden. Nürnberg, Vierzehnter Band, pp. 89-210, Funfzehnter Band, pp. 1-136, Sechszehnter Band, pp. 1-80.

Koch, C. L. 1834. Arachniden. In Herrich-Schäffer, G. A. W., Deutschlands Insekten. Heft 122-127.

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-

Kronestedt, T. 1986. A presumptive pheromone-emitting structure in wolf spiders (Araneae, Lycosidae). Psyche, Camb. 93: 127-131.

Kulczynski, W. 1909. Fragmenta Arachnologica. XI-XIII. Bull. Acad. Cracovie 1909: 427-472.

Locket, G. H. & A. F. Millidge. 1951. British spiders. Ray Society, London, 1: 1-310.

Locket, G. H., A. F. Millidge & P. Merrett. 1974. British Spiders, Volume III. Ray Society, London, 315 pp.

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.

Mcheidze, T. S. 1997. [Spiders of Georgia: Systematics, Ecology, Zoogeographic Review]. Tbilisi Univ., 390 pp. (in Georgian).

Menge, A. 1879. Preussische Spinnen. X. Fortsetzung. Schrift. naturf. Ges. Danzig (N. F.) 4: 495-560.

Muller, L. 1955. Les lycosides et les familles apparentées dans le Grand-Duché de Luxembourg. Arch. Inst. Grand-Ducal Luxemb. 22: 153-173.

Ohlert, E. 1867. Die Araneiden oder echten Spinnen der Provinz Preussen. Leipzig, pp. 1-172.

Palmgren, P. 1939. Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands. I. Lycosidae. Acta Zool. Fennica 25: 1-86.

Reimoser, E. 1931. Einheimische Spinnen 6-9. Die Natur (Wien) 7: 37-41, 57-61, 83-87, 127-130.

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

Roberts, M. J. 1995. Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp.

Roberts, M. J. 1985. The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1: Atypidae to Theridiosomatidae. Harley Books, Colchester, England.

Roewer, C. F. 1955. Katalog der Araneen von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. Bruxelles, 2: 1-1751.

Simon, E. 1937. Les arachnides de France. Tome VI. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae; 5e et derniére partie. Paris, 6: 979-1298.

Simon, E. 1864. Histoire naturelle des araignées (aranéides). Paris, pp. 1-540.

Sundevall, J. C. 1833. Svenska spindlarnes beskrifning. Fortsättning och slut. Kongl. Svenska Vet. Ak. Handl. 1832: 172-272.

Thorell, T. 1872. Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. Part III. Upsala, pp. 229-374.

Walckenaer, C. A. 1837. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Paris, 1: 1-682.

Westring, N. 1861. Araneae svecieae. Göteb. Kongl. Vet. Handl. 7: 1-615.

Wiebes, J. T. 1959. The Lycosidae and Pisauridae (Araneae) of the Netherlands. Zool. Verh. Leiden 42: 1-78.

Yin, C. M., X. J. Peng, L. S. Gong, Y. F. Chen & J. P. Kim. 1997. Six new species of the genus Pardosa from China (Araneae: Lycosidae). Korean Arachnol. 13(2): 19-31.

Zyuzin, A. A. 1993. Studies on the wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae). I. A new genus and species from Kazakhstan, with comments on the Lycosinae. Mem. Qd Mus. 33: 693-700.

Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/LYCOSIDAE.html

Other Nearctic Members of Genus Alopecosa Simon, 1885‡‡

A. accentuata (Latreille, 1817) ...............Palearctic
A. aculeata (Clerck, 1757) ...............Holarctic
A. alpicola (Simon, 1876) ...............Palearctic
A. barbipes (Sundevall, 1833) ...............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