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Published on: January 11, 2011
On two wolf spiders from Yintiaoling Nature Reserve of Chongqing, China (Araneae, Lycosidae)
Xiang-Yun Zhang1, Zhi-Sheng Zhang2
1Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education); School of Life Sciences; Southwest University; Chongqing 400715; China. 487963338@qq.com.
Abstract:
Two spiders of the wolf spider family Lycosidae from high altitude area (>1900 m) of Yintiaoling Nature Reserve are presented here, including a new species, Trochosa alpina sp. nov. (male, female) and a poorly known species, Alopecosa pseudocuneata (Schenkel, 1953). The new species is similar to the Holarctic congener, T. ruricola (De Geer, 1778) and Alopecosa pseudocuneata is quite similar to the Palaearctic species, Alopecosa cuneata (Clerck, 1757). Description / redescription, diagnoses, photos and illustrations of these two species are given. Photos of A. cuneata are provided for comparison purposes.

