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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Wolf Spiders (Lycosidae) » Alopecosa » Alopecosa aculeata

Species Alopecosa aculeata

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Life Cycle

Adult female - Alopecosa aculeata - female

Immature Female - Alopecosa aculeata - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynae)

Family Lycosidae (Wolf Spiders)

Genus Alopecosa

Species aculeata (Alopecosa aculeata)

Explanation of Names

(Clerck, 1758)

Identification

Female:

Voucher specimens:

South Dakota:

Alberta:

epigyne

epigyne with some setae removed to reveal more structure

Male:

Voucher specimens:

Alberta:

Newfoundland:

left palp, retrolateral view

left palp, distal view - showing the "mesally directed tooth" (Dondale) on the median apophysis

Life Cycle

Females often build shallow retreats under leaf litter and other vegetation. This one was in a shallow depression, with an egg sac, under a piece of moss:

Contributed by John Sloan on 22 April, 2010 - 1:25am
Last updated 5 November, 2011 - 4:48pm

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