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Allocosa Delesserti
''Allocosa'' is a spider genus of the wolf spider family, Lycosidae. The 130 or more recognized species are spread worldwide. Species , the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species: *'' Allocosa abmingani'' (Hickman, 1944) – South Australia *'' Allocosa absoluta'' (Gertsch, 1934) – USA, Mexico *'' Allocosa adolphifriederici'' (Strand, 1913) – Central, East Africa, Zanzibar *''Allocosa albiconspersa'' Roewer, 1959 – Rwanda *''Allocosa albonotata'' (Schmidt, 1895) – Russia *'' Allocosa algoensis'' (Pocock, 1900) – South Africa *'' Allocosa alticeps'' (Mello-Leitão, 1944) – Argentina *''Allocosa apora'' (Gertsch, 1934) – USA to Costa Rica *''Allocosa aurata'' (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa *''Allocosa aurichelis'' Roewer, 1959 – South Africa *''Allocosa bersabae'' Roewer, 1959 – Namibia *'' Allocosa biserialis'' Roewer, 1959 – Congo *''Allocosa brasiliensis'' (Petrunkevitch, 1910) – Brazil *'' Allocosa caboverdensis'' Schmidt & Krause, 1995 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allocosa Brasiliensis
''Allocosa brasiliensis'' is a burrowing wolf spider species from southern South America. Long known to science, it remained almost unstudied until its unusual sexual behavior was described in the early 21st century.BBC News 2011-APR-12Cannibal wolf spiders are ladykillers/ref> This ground-dwelling spider is native to mainly coastal areas, from southeastern Brazil via Uruguay and Argentina to southern Chile, though its known occurrences are patchy. To what extent it is found on the Atlantic coast south of the Río de la Plata remains largely unknown, for example. While the males have been known for over a century, the females were only described in 1980. Description ''A. brasiliensis'' is a mid-sized cryptic light brown spider of robust build, with a body size of well over 1 cm (0.5 in and more) when fully grown, up to almost twice this size in the largest specimens. The cephalothorax has an inconspicuous darker stripe pattern reminiscent of that found in many lycosids, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |