On the synonymy of two wolf spider species of the genus Alopecosa (Araneae, Lycosidae) from the steppe zone of Russia

Galina N Azarkina; Sergei L Esyunin; Evgeniy A Kuz'min; Yuri M Marusik

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4205.4.2

On the synonymy of two wolf spider species of the genus Alopecosa (Araneae, Lycosidae) from the steppe zone of Russia

Zootaxa. 2016 Dec 7;4205(4):zootaxa.4205.4.2. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4205.4.2.

Authors

Galina N Azarkina¹, Sergei L Esyunin, Evgeniy A Kuz'min, Yuri M Marusik

Affiliation

¹ Laboratory of Systematics of Invertebrate Animals, Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Frunze Street 11, Novosibirsk 630091, Russia.. urmakuz@gmail.com.

PMID: 27988566
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4205.4.2

Abstract

Alopecosa atypica Ponomarev, 2008 is known from the holotype male collected in Western Kazakhstan. Here we synonymize it with A. cronebergi (Thorell, 1875), which was described from two syntype females from the Volga River and Daghestan. This species is redescribed in detail and its distribution is shown to be restricted to Russia and Ukraine, and previous records from Hungary are probably mistaken.

Keywords: Araneae, spider, Aranei, redescription, Lycosinae, new synonym.

MeSH terms

Animal Distribution
Animal Structures / anatomy & histology
Animal Structures / growth & development
Animals
Body Size
Ecosystem
Female
Male
Organ Size
Russia
Spiders / anatomy & histology
Spiders / classification*
Spiders / growth & development