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Genus: Acantholycosa Dahl, 1908 | Family: Lycosidae Sundevall, 1833

Acantholycosa sterneri (Marusik, 1993)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:018939

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Described:

Distribution: Russia (South Siberia), Mongolia, China

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Holotype: Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russia m - (Marusik, 1993a)

Taxonomic References

Pardosa sterneri Marusik, 1993a: 77, f. 1-3 (Dm) Original description

Acantholycosa sterneri Kronestedt & Marusik, 2002: 67, f. 2, 7-8, 12-13, 15-18, 21, 25-27 (m, Df, T from Pardosa, accepting Marusik, Logunov & Koponen, 2000: 76)

Acantholycosa sterneri Marusik, Azarkina & Koponen, 2004: 113, f. 66-72 (mf)

Acantholycosa sterneri Marusik & Omelko, 2017a: 599, f. 12 (m)

Acantholycosa sterneri Zhang, Zhang & Wang, 2025: 244, f. 5A-D, 6A-H (mf)

References

Kronestedt, T. & Marusik, Y. M. (2002). On Acantholycosa solituda (Levi & Levi) and A. sterneri (Marusik) (Araneae: Lycosidae), a pair of geographically distant allied species. Acta Arachnologica 51(1): 63-71. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.51.63 -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M. (1993a). Three new wandering spider species (Aranei Lycosidae Gnaphosidae) from Mongolia. Arthropoda Selecta 2(1): 77-81. -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M., Azarkina, G. N. & Koponen, S. (2004). A survey of east Palearctic Lycosidae (Aranei). II. Genus Acantholycosa F. Dahl, 1908 and related new genera. Arthropoda Selecta 12(2, 2003): 101-148. [[publ. Feb. 28, 2004]] -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2017a). A new species of Acantholycosa baltoroi-group (Araneae: Lycosidae, Pardosinae) from the Russian Far East. Zootaxa 4232(4): 597-600. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4232.4.12 -- Show included taxa

Zhang, X. Y., Zhang, Z. S. & Wang, L. Y. (2025). Review of the wolf spider genus Acantholycosa Dahl, 1908 from China (Araneae, Lycosidae). ZooKeys 1240: 239-256. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1240.146399 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2025-06-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Zhang, Zhang & Wang, 2025
2025-06-10	Species distribution update	Zhang, Zhang & Wang, 2025	Old value
2017-02-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Marusik & Omelko, 2017a