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Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Arctosa  C. L. Koch, 1847   37 species

Arctosa villica  (Lucas, 1846)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017693

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Description

Prosoma yellow-brown, whitish median and lateral stripes, median stripe slightly widened, V-shaped, vague anteriorly, with narrow dark line in head region. Lateral stripes with 3-4 brown marginal spots and with 2-3 distinct spots. Sternum yellowish. Legs red-yellow. Femur with 2 or 3 brown rings. Opisthosoma provided with fine, yellowish hairs, and several red-brown stout hairs. Narrow, lancet-shaped median stripe in anterior half, flanked by dark spots. Dark spots indicate triangular patterns in posterior half. Laterally and ventrally yellowish.

Body length female: 13 mm
Additional information

in dry localities, under stones, often near coasts

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Omitted from the Italian checklist by Pantini & Isaia (2015)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Western Mediterranean
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Murphy & Tongiorgi 1979)

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male Pedipalp
(Murphy & Tongiorgi 1979)

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female Epigyne
(Murphy & Tongiorgi 1979)

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Habitus
(Murphy & Tongiorgi 1979)

Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| France   (no references) ||| Morocco   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans, unpubl.) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Murphy F, Tongiorgi P (1979) Arctosa villica (Lucas) 1846: drawings and observations. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4: 402-406 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
02-01-2018 Image insert
29-12-2014 Distribution update Detail