''Alopecosa'' is a species of wolf spiders in the genus ''

Alopecosa ''Alopecosa'' is a spider genus in the family Lycosidae (wolf spiders), with about 160 species. They have a largely Eurasian distribution, although some species are found in North Africa and North America. Life cycle Most species grow up to 2&nb ...

'' with a palearctic distribution. It was described in chapter 5 of the book

Svenska Spindlar The book ' or ' (Swedish and Latin, respectively, for "Swedish spiders") is one of the major works of the Swedish arachnologist and entomologist Carl Alexander Clerck and was first published in Stockholm in the year 1757. It was the first compre ...

of the Swedish arachnologist and entomologist

Carl Alexander Clerck Carl Alexander Clerck (1709 – 22 July 1765) was a Sweden, Swedish entomologist and arachnology, arachnologist. Clerck came from a family in the petty Swedish nobility, nobility and entered the University of Uppsala in 1726. Little is known of hi ...

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pulverulenta Spiders of Europe Spiders described in 1757 Taxa named by Carl Alexander Clerck Palearctic spiders {{Lycosidae-stub

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