Alopecosa

Alopecosa is a genus of spiders in the family Lycosidae. Alopecosa spiders have been sighted 25 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Alopecosa includes 5 countries and 5 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 25 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 25 sightings because of certain Alopecosa sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 8% of the time, Alopecosa spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 25)
Sex: 3 female and 2 male.
Environment: Alopecosa has been sighted 19 times outdoors, and 11 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (4). Low foliage (2). Ground layer (9). Freshwater river, lake, stream (1). Saltwater (1). Forest (2).