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Lycosidae

63 species · Animals

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Animalia › Arthropoda › Arachnida › Araneae › Lycosidae

Pardosa laura Karsch, 1879

Pardosa laura is a medium-sized sexually dimorphic wolf spider found across East Asia and Far East Russia.

Pardosa nigriceps (Thorell, 1856)

Pardosa nigriceps is a European wolf spider species common in open low-vegetation areas, with distinct size and appearance differences between sexes.

Pardosa sumatrana (Thorell, 1890)

Pardosa sumatrana is a ground-dwelling wolf spider widespread across South and Southeast Asia, often found in rice fields as a pest predator.

Acantholycosa lignaria (Clerck, 1757)

Acantholycosa lignaria is a widespread wolf spider species found across central and northern Europe, first described in 1757.

Wadicosa fidelis (O.Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

Wadicosa fidelis is a sexually dimorphic medium-sized wolf spider with a wide recorded distribution across much of Eurasia and adjacent regions.

Sosippus californicus Simon, 1898

Sosippus californicus is a wolf spider species from the Lycosidae family found in the United States and Mexico.

Aglaoctenus castaneus (Mello-Leitão, 1942)

Aglaoctenus castaneus is a spider species found across South America, mostly in humid forest habitats.

Aulonia albimana (Walckenaer, 1805)

Aulonia albimana is a small spider native to Europe, Turkey, and the Caucasus found in dry sunny habitats.

Hippasa holmerae Thorell, 1895

Hippasa holmerae is an unusual web-building wolf spider that preys on crop pests across South and East Asia.

Pirata piraticus (Clerck, 1757)

Pirata piraticus is a wolf spider species found across a wide range of regions in the Northern Hemisphere.

Pirata montanus Emerton, 1885

Pirata montanus is a wolf spider species found in the USA, Canada, and Russia.

Arctosa littoralis (Hentz, 1844)

Arctosa littoralis, the beach wolf spider, is a Lycosidae wolf spider found in North and Central America.

Arctosa perita (Latreille, 1799)

Arctosa perita is a spider species with detailed documented size, colouration, and body marking characteristics.

Arctosa sanctaerosae Gertsch & Wallace, 1935

Arctosa sanctaerosae (Santa Rosa wolf spider) is a wolf spider in Lycosidae found in the United States.

Arctosa cinerea (Fabricius, 1777)

Arctosa cinerea is a camouflaged wolf spider that lives on sandy beaches, with a Palearctic range and an additional record in Congo.

Related Families

Salticidae 299 species Araneidae 234 species Theridiidae 85 species Theraphosidae 64 species Thomisidae 56 species Tetragnathidae 38 species Pisauridae 30 species Sparassidae 24 species

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