Aulonia
| Aulonia | |
|---|---|
| female A. albimana | |
| male A. kratochvili | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Lycosidae |
| Genus: | Aulonia Koch, 1847[1] |
| Species | |
| Synonyms[2][1] | |
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Aulonia is a genus of wolf spiders, family Lycosidae, first described as a subgenus by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1847.[3] Its species are native from Europe to Central Asia.[1]
Taxonomy
In 1847, Carl Ludwig Koch created a subgenus of Lycosa, Lycosa (Aulonia), with the species Lycosa albimana.[3][note 1] In 1870, Tamerlan Thorell explicitly synonymized Koch's Lycosa subgenus Aulonia with the genus Aulonia, giving the type species as A. albimana.[2] This treatment was followed in 1876 by Eugène Simon.[4]
Species
As of October 2025, this genus included two species:[1]
- Aulonia albimana (Walckenaer, 1805) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus (type species)
- Aulonia kratochvili Dunin, Buchar & Absolon, 1986 – Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan
Notes
References
- ^ a b c d e "Gen. Aulonia C. L. Koch, 1847". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-30.
- ^ a b Thorell, T. (1870). "On European spiders. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature [second part]". Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis (Series 3). 7: 109–242. Retrieved 2025-10-31 – via World Spider Catalog. p. 190.
- ^ a b Koch, C. L. (1847). Die Arachniden, vol. 14 (in German). Nürnberg: J. L. Lotzbeck. Retrieved 2025-10-30 – via World Spider Catalog. pp. 97-98.
- ^ Simon, E. (1876). Les arachnides de France, vol. 3 (in French). Paris: Roret. Retrieved 2025-10-30 – via World Spider Catalog. pp. 358–360.