Allocosa

Allocosa is a spider genus of the wolf spider family, Lycosidae. The 130 or more recognized species are spread worldwide.

Allocosa
male Allocosa brasiliensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Lycosidae
Genus:	Allocosa Banks, 1900
Type species
Lycosa funerea Hentz, 1844
Diversity
133 species

Species

As of March 2017, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following 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 bersabae Roewer, 1959 – Namibia
• Allocosa biserialis Roewer, 1959 – Congo
• Allocosa brasiliensis (Petrunkevitch, 1910) – Brazil
• Allocosa caboverdensis Schmidt & Krause, 1995 – Cape Verde Is.
• 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 Arch.
• 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 finkei (Hickman, 1944) – South Australia
• Allocosa flavisternis (L. Koch, 1877) – Queensland, New South Wales
• Allocosa floridiana (Chamberlin, 1908) – USA
• Allocosa funerea (Hentz, 1844) (type species) – USA
• Allocosa furtiva (Gertsch, 1934) – USA
• Allocosa gabesia Roewer, 1959 – Tunisia
• 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 Is.
• 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 marindia Simó, Lise, Pompozzi & Laborda, 2017 – Brazil, Uruguay
• Allocosa maroccana Roewer, 1959 – Morocco
• Allocosa marshalli (Pocock, 1901) – Zimbabwe
• 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 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 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 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 senex (Mello-Leitão, 1945) – Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay
• Allocosa sennaris Roewer, 1959 – Sudan
• Allocosa sjostedti (Lessert, 1926) – East Africa, Rwanda
• Allocosa soluta (Tullgren, 1905) – Bolivia
• Allocosa sublata (Montgomery, 1902) – USA
• 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 Arch.
• Allocosa tremens (O. Pickard-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 yurae (Strand, 1908) – Peru, Chile