Mongolicosa is a genus of wolf spiders containing eight species found in central Asia from the Altai Mountains east to western Buryatia and south to Xinjiang and the Gobi Desert.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Lycosidae |
| Genus: | Mongolicosa Marusik, Azarkina & Koponen, 2003[1] |
| Type species | |
| Mongolicosa glupovi Marusik, Azarkina & Koponen, 2003
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Spiders of this genus are dark coloured without any clear patterning. Body length is from 6 - 9.2 mm. The legs are relatively short compared with spiders of the related genera Acantholycosa and Sibirocosa.
Species
editThe genus Mongolicosa contains the following species:[2]
- Mongolicosa buryatica Marusik, Azarkina & Koponen, 2004
- Mongolicosa glupovi Marusik, Azarkina & Koponen, 2004
- Mongolicosa gobiensis Marusik, Azarkina & Koponen, 2004
- Mongolicosa mongolensis Marusik, Azarkina & Koponen, 2004
- Mongolicosa przhewalskii Fomichev & Marusik, 2017
- Mongolicosa pseudoferruginea (Schenkel, 1936)
- Mongolicosa songi Marusik, Azarkina & Koponen, 2004
- Mongolicosa uncia Fomichev & Marusik, 2017
References
edit- ^ Marusik, Yuri M.; Azarkina, Galina N.; Koponen, Seppo (2003) [2004]. "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 2011-03-21.
- ^ Fomichev, Alexander A.; Marusik, Yuri M. (2017). "A survey of East Palaearctic Lycosidae (Araneae). 12. Two new Mongolicosa species from Mongolia". Zootaxa. 4221 (2): 233. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4221.2.7. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 28187662.
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