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Published: 2016-12-07
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On the synonymy of two wolf spider species of the genus Alopecosa (Araneae, Lycosidae) from the steppe zone of Russia

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.
Perm State University, Bukireva Str. 15, Perm 614990 Russia.
Ul’yanovsk State Pedagogical University, Stoletiya so dnya rozhdeniya Lenina Square 4, Ul’yanovsk 432063 Russia.
Institute for biological problems of the North, Portovaya Street 18, Magadan 685000, Russia. Department of zoology & entomology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa
Araneae spider Aranei redescription Lycosinae new synonym

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.

 

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