Alopecosa

Alopecosa is a genus of spiders in the family Lycosidae. Alopecosa spiders have been sighted 21 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Alopecosa includes 2 countries and 5 states in the United States. Alopecosa is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of March.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Lycosidae
Genus: Alopecosa

Author

Eugène Simon, 1885

Sightings Overview

There have been 21 confirmed sightings of Alopecosa, with the most recent sighting submitted on January 20, 2020 by Spider ID member nailbunny502502. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 21 sightings because of certain Alopecosa sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 10% of the time, Alopecosa spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 21)
Sex: 3 female and 1 male.
Environment: Alopecosa has been sighted 16 times outdoors, and 10 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (3). Low foliage (2). Ground layer (7). Freshwater river, lake, stream (1). Saltwater (1). Forest (2).