Allocosa

Allocosa
male A. brasiliensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Subkingdom:	Eumetazoa
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Section:	Dionycha
Superfamily:	Lycosoidea
Family:	Lycosidae
Genus:	Allocosa Banks, 1900
Type species
Lycosa funerea Hentz, 1844
Diversity
33 species

Allocosa is a spider genus of the Lycosidae family (wolf spiders). The about 140 recognized species are spread worldwide.

Species

• Allocosa abmingani (Hickman, 1944) — South Australia
• Allocosa absoluta (Gertsch, 1934) — USA, Mexico
• Allocosa adolphifriederici (Strand, 1913) — Central, East Africa, Zanzibar
• Allocosa albiconspersa Roewer, 1959 — Rwanda
• Allocosa albonotata (Schmidt, 1895) — Russia
• Allocosa algoensis (Pocock, 1900) — South Africa
• Allocosa alticeps (Mello-Leitão, 1944) — Argentina
• Allocosa apora (Gertsch, 1934) — USA to Costa Rica
• Allocosa aurata (Purcell, 1903) — South Africa
• Allocosa aurichelis Roewer, 1959 — South Africa
• Allocosa baulnyi (Simon, 1876) — North Africa
• Allocosa bersabae Roewer, 1959 — Namibia
• Allocosa biserialis Roewer, 1959 — Congo
• Allocosa brasiliensis (Petrunkevitch, 1910) — Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile
• Allocosa caboverdensis Schmidt & Krause, 1995 — Cape Verde Islands
• Allocosa calamarica (Strand, 1914) — Colombia
• Allocosa cambridgei (Simon, 1876) — Turkey, Syria
• Allocosa chamberlini (Gertsch, 1934) — USA
• Allocosa clariventris (Guy, 1966) — Morocco
• Allocosa comotti (Thorell, 1887) — Myanmar
• Allocosa danneili (Dahl, 1908) — Bismarck Archipel
• Allocosa delagoa Roewer, 1959 — Mozambique
• Allocosa delesserti (Caporiacco, 1941) — Ethiopia
• Allocosa deserticola (Simon, 1898) — Egypt
• Allocosa dingosaeformis (Guy, 1966) — Morocco
• Allocosa dubia (Walckenaer, 1837) — Brazil
• Allocosa dufouri (Simon, 1876) — Portugal, Spain
• Allocosa edeala Roewer, 1959 — Cameroon
• Allocosa efficiens Roewer, 1959 — Congo, Rwanda
• Allocosa excusor (L. Koch, 1867) — Queensland
• Allocosa exserta Roewer, 1959 — Botswana, South Africa
• Allocosa faberrima (Simon, 1910) — Namibia
• Allocosa fasciiventris (Dufour, 1835) — Spain
• Allocosa finkei (Hickman, 1944) — South Australia
• Allocosa flavisternis (L. Koch, 1877) — Queensland, New South Wales
• Allocosa floridiana (Chamberlin, 1908) — USA
• Allocosa funerea (Hentz, 1844) — USA
• Allocosa furtiva (Gertsch, 1934) — USA
• Allocosa gabesia Roewer, 1959 — Tunisia
• Allocosa georgicola (Walckenaer, 1837) — USA
• Allocosa glochidea Roewer, 1959 — Namibia
• Allocosa gorontalensis (Merian, 1911) — Sulawesi
• Allocosa gracilitarsis (Purcell, 1903) — South Africa
• Allocosa guianensis (Caporiacco, 1947) — Guyana
• Allocosa halei (Hickman, 1944) — Northern Territory
• Allocosa handschini (Schenkel, 1937) — Morocco
• Allocosa hasselti (L. Koch, 1877) — Queensland, South Australia
• Allocosa hirsuta (Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895) — Central, East Africa
• Allocosa hostilis (L. Koch, 1877) — Fiji
• Allocosa hugonis (Strand, 1911) — Aru Islands
• Allocosa illegalis (Strand, 1906) — Ethiopia
• Allocosa ituriana (Strand, 1913) — Central Africa
• Allocosa iturianella Roewer, 1959 — Kenya, Uganda
• Allocosa kalaharensis (Simon, 1910) — Namibia, South Africa
• Allocosa karissimbica (Strand, 1913) — Central, East Africa
• Allocosa kazibana Roewer, 1959 — Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania
• Allocosa kulagini (Spassky, 1941) — Tajikistan
• Allocosa laetella (Strand, 1907) — Moluccas
• Allocosa lawrencei (Roewer, 1951) — South Africa
• Allocosa leucotricha Roewer, 1959 — Congo
• Allocosa lombokensis (Strand, 1913) — Lombok
• Allocosa mafensis (Lawrence, 1927) — Namibia
• Allocosa mahengea Roewer, 1959 — Tanzania
• Allocosa manmaka Roewer, 1960 — Afghanistan
• Allocosa maroccana Roewer, 1959 — Morocco
• Allocosa marshalli (Pocock, 1901) — South Africa
• Allocosa martinicensis (Strand, 1910) — Martinique
• Allocosa marua Roewer, 1959 — Cameroon
• Allocosa mascatensis (Simon, 1898) — Oman
• Allocosa mexicana (Banks, 1898) — Mexico
• Allocosa millica (Strand, 1906) — USA
• Allocosa mirabilis (Strand, 1906) — Ethiopia
• Allocosa mogadorensis (Simon, 1909) — Morocco
• Allocosa mokiensis Gertsch, 1934 — USA
• Allocosa molicola (Strand, 1906) — Ethiopia
• Allocosa montana Roewer, 1959 — Tanzania
• Allocosa morelosiana (Gertsch & Davis, 1940) — USA, Mexico
• Allocosa mossambica Roewer, 1959 — Mozambique
• Allocosa mossamedesa Roewer, 1959 — Angola
• Allocosa mulaiki (Gertsch, 1934) — USA
• Allocosa munieri (Simon, 1876) — North Africa
• Allocosa mutilata Mello-Leitão, 1937 — Brazil
• Allocosa nanahuensis (Badcock, 1932) — Paraguay
• Allocosa nebulosa Roewer, 1959 — Congo
• Allocosa nigella (Caporiacco, 1940) — Ethiopia
• Allocosa nigripes (Guy, 1966) — Morocco
• Allocosa nigriventris (Guy, 1966) — Morocco
• Allocosa nigrofulva (Caporiacco, 1955) — Venezuela
• Allocosa noctuabunda (Montgomery, 1904) — USA, Mexico
• Allocosa obscuroides (Strand, 1906) — Java, Australia
• Allocosa obturata (Lawrence, 1928) — Namibia
• Allocosa oculata (Simon, 1876) — Western Mediterranean
• Allocosa olivieri (Simon, 1876) — Syria, Israel
• Allocosa orinus (Chamberlin, 1916) — Peru
• Allocosa otavia Roewer, 1959 — Namibia
• Allocosa palabunda (L. Koch, 1877) — Australia, New Caledonia
• Allocosa pallideflava (Lawrence, 1936) — Namibia
• Allocosa panamena Chamberlin, 1925 — Mexico to Ecuador
• Allocosa panousei (Guy, 1966) — Morocco
• Allocosa paraguayensis (Roewer, 1951) — Paraguay
• Allocosa pardala (Strand, 1909) — Brazil
• Allocosa parva (Banks, 1894) — USA to Costa Rica
• Allocosa parvivulva (Lawrence, 1927) — Namibia
• Allocosa pellita Roewer, 1960 — Afghanistan
• Allocosa perfecta Roewer, 1959 — Namibia
• Allocosa pistia (Strand, 1913) — Central, East Africa
• Allocosa plumipes Roewer, 1959 — Tanzania
• Allocosa pugnatrix (Keyserling, 1877) — Central America, West Indies
• Allocosa pulchella Roewer, 1959 — Namibia
• Allocosa pylora Chamberlin, 1925 — USA
• Allocosa quadrativulva (Caporiacco, 1955) — Venezuela
• Allocosa retenta (Gertsch & Wallace, 1935) — USA
• Allocosa ruwenzorensis (Strand, 1913) — East Africa
• Allocosa samoana (Roewer, 1951) — Samoa
• Allocosa sangtoda Roewer, 1960 — Afghanistan
• Allocosa schoenlandi (Pocock, 1900) — South Africa
• Allocosa schubotzi (Strand, 1913) — Rwanda
• Allocosa sefrana (Schenkel, 1937) — Algeria
• Allocosa sennaris Roewer, 1959 — Sudan
• Allocosa sjostedti (Lessert, 1926) — East Africa, Rwanda
• Allocosa soluta (Tullgren, 1905) — Bolivia
• Allocosa sublata (Montgomery, 1902) — USA
• Allocosa suboculata (Guy, 1966) — North Africa
• Allocosa subparva Dondale & Redner, 1983 — USA, Mexico
• Allocosa tagax (Thorell, 1897) — Myanmar
• Allocosa tangana Roewer, 1959 — Tanzania
• Allocosa tarentulina (Audouin, 1826) — North Africa
• Allocosa tenebrosa (Thorell, 1897) — Myanmar
• Allocosa testacea Roewer, 1959 — South Africa
• Allocosa thieli (Dahl, 1908) — Bismarck Archipel
• Allocosa tremens (O. P.-Cambridge, 1876) — North Africa
• Allocosa tuberculipalpa (Caporiacco, 1940) — Central, East Africa
• Allocosa umtalica (Purcell, 1903) — East, Southern Africa
• Allocosa utahana Dondale & Redner, 1983 — USA
• Allocosa venezuelica (Caporiacco, 1955) — Venezuela
• Allocosa veracruzana (Gertsch & Davis, 1940) — Mexico
• Allocosa wittei Roewer, 1959 — Congo
• Allocosa woodwardi (Simon, 1909) — Western Australia
• Allocosa zualella (Strand, 1907) — New South Wales

References

• Platnick, Norman I. (2011): The world spider catalog, version 11.5. American Museum of Natural History.