Alopecosa edax (Thorell, 1875)
Description
Male
Prosoma brown, eye field brown-black, median band slightly lighter. Sternum dirty brown. Legs orange-brown, femora indistinctly marbled darker. Opisthosoma dorsally with brown longitudinal field, posteriorly of cardiac mark somewhat yellowish marbled, sides and venter uniform light yellow. Chelicerae with 3 teeth on pro- and 2 on retromargin.
Prosoma length: 3.5 mm, prosoma width: 2.6 mm.
Female
Female unknown.
Additional information
Not native and not established species in Europe (Buchar, 2001)
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)
Pedipalp, lateral view
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Buchar 2001)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Buchar 2001)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Buchar 2001)
Tegular apophysis
(Lugetti & Tongiorgi 1969)
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.
References
Buchar J (2001) Two new species of the genus Alopecosa (Araneae: Lycosidae) from south-eastern Europe. Acta Universitatis Carolinae Biologica 45: 257-266 
Lugetti G, Tongiorgi P (1969) Ricerche sul genere Alopecosa Simon (Araneae-Lycosidae). Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali B76: 1-100
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