Acantholycosa altaiensis

Acantholycosa altaiensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Superfamily:	Lycosoidea
Family:	Lycosidae
Subfamily:	Pardosinae
Genus:	Acantholycosa
Species:	A. altaiensis
Binomial name
Acantholycosa altaiensis Marusik, Azarkina & Koponen, 2003

Acantholycosa altaiensis is a species of wolf spider only known from the Tigiretsky Mountain Range in the Russian part of the Altai Mountains.

This uniformly dark brown spider is up to 9 mm in length. It can only be separated from its closest congeners by details of the genitalia.

References

• Marusik, Yuri M.; Azarkina, Galina N.; Koponen, Seppo (2003). "A Survey of East Palaearctic Lycosidae (Aranei). II. Acantholycosa F. Dahl, 1908 and related new genera" (PDF). Arthropoda Selecta. 12 (2): 101–148. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-25. Retrieved 2010-05-15.