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Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Allocosa  Banks, 1900   14 species

Allocosa tarentulina (Audouin, 1826)

Description
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): North Africa
Figures
Distribution List
Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Egypt   (Roewer, 1959b; El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| Libya   (Caporiacco, 1934) ||| Morocco  Removed (Bosmans, unpubl.; Benhalima & Bosmans, 2026) ||| Tunisia   (Strand, 1908a; Kmira et al., 2025) |||
References

Audouin V (1826) Explication sommaire des planches d'arachnides de l'Egypte et de la Syrie publiées ... in "Description de l'Egypte...". Histoire Naturelle 1(4): 1-339 pdf

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2026) First catalog of spiders of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae): A critical review of all spider species cited from Morocco with their localities. Zootaxa 5838: 1-127 pdf

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

Caporiacco L di (1934) Missione zoologica del Dott. E. Festa in Cirenaica. Aracnidi. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Università di Torino 44: 121-146 pdf

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 pdf

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 pdf

Roewer C F (1959b) Araneae Lycosaeformia II (Lycosidae). Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba, Mission G. F. de Witte 55: 1-518 pdf

Strand E (1908a) Nordafrikanische, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelte Lycosiden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 73(I, 3): 291-376 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
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