Acantholycosa mordkovitchi

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

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

This is a grey-brown spider up to 9.5 mm in length. The female is darker than the male. The male palps are distinctively marked, the yellowish femur and tibia contrasting with the almost black terminal cymbium.

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 2011-03-17.