Mongolicosa

Mongolicosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Superfamily: Lycosoidea
Family: Lycosidae
Genus: Mongolicosa
Marusik, Azarkina & Koponen, 2003
Species

See text.

Mongolicosa is a genus of wolf spiders containing eight species found in central Asia from the Altai Mountains east to western Buryatia and south to Xinjiang and the Gobi Desert.

Spiders of this genus are dark coloured without any clear patterning. Body length is from 6 - 9.2 mm. The legs are relatively short compared with spiders of the related genera Acantholycosa and Sibirocosa.

Species

The genus Mongolicosa contains the following species:[1]

References

  1. Fomichev, Alexander A.; Marusik, Yuri M. (2017). "A survey of East Palaearctic Lycosidae (Araneae). 12. Two new Mongolicosa species from Mongolia". Zootaxa. 4221 (2): 233. ISSN 1175-5334. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4221.2.7.


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