Wolf Spiders - Alopecosa sp.

    Family - Lycosidae

    Genus - Alopecosa

    Seventeen European species of Alopecosa.

    Thickset legs, sometimes front legs darkened or swollen in males.

    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery

    17.08.2011

    I think this is Alopecosa (?)
    On the bank of a pond
    Friston Forest
    East Sussex
    16.08.2011

    Hogs Plat Nature Reserve

    Rottingdean
    East Sussex
    16.08.2011

    Alopecosa pulverulenta (Female)

    Many thanks to Peter Harvey of the British Arachnological

    Society Spider Recording Scheme for Id.

    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery

    27.04.2011

    Alopecosa pulverulenta (Male)

    Showing darkened, swollen front legs.

    Alopecosa pulverulenta (Female)

    Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve

    West Sussex

    06.04.2011 

    Female carrying Spiderlings

    Back Garden

    Brighton

    19.05.2011

    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery

    09/10/2010 

     

    Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery

    06/10/2010