Alopecosa

Alopecosa is a genus of spiders in the family Lycosidae. Alopecosa spiders have been sighted 23 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Alopecosa includes 5 countries and 3 states in the United States. Alopecosa is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of April.

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 23 confirmed sightings of Alopecosa, with the most recent sighting submitted on May 1, 2019 by Spider ID member tas-sv. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 23 sightings because of certain Alopecosa sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 9% of the time, Alopecosa spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 23)
Sex: 3 female and 2 male.
Environment: Alopecosa has been sighted 18 times outdoors, and 10 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (4). Low foliage (2). Ground layer (8). Freshwater river, lake, stream (1). Saltwater (1). Forest (2).