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Alopecosa fabrilis female · smėlinis pleištavoris ♀

  • great fox-spider
  • Dünen-Scheintarantel
  • smėlinis pleištavoris, didysis pleištavoris
  • wilkosz wydmowiec
  • alfavargspindel

It is found over much of Europe, Eastern Russia, Central Asia and China. Alopecosa fabrilis is found on heathland, preferring dry sandy heaths, where it lives in a burrow created in sandy soil or underneath stones. This species is a fast and agile nocturnal hunter. It uses its speed and agility to chase down beetles, ants and smaller spiders.

Alopecosa fabrilis is a large wolf spider in which the males 10‒12 mm long while the larger females have a body which is 11‒14.7 mm long. The largest females may attain a leg span of 5 cm. Body color is grey-brown. The middle of the carapace with a narrow central strip that does not reach the abdomen. The prosoma is reddish-brown in colour and has obvious black stripes radiating from its centre with continuous horizontal stripes along the sides. The abdomen has a dark, spindle-shaped base stain, the sides of which are usually lightly edged. The legs are darkly spotted, without longitudinal streaks (stripes).

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