title: On the synonymy of two wolf spider species of the genusAlopecosa(Araneae, Lycosidae) from the steppe zone of Russia.
abstract: Alopecosa atypica Ponomarev, 2008 is known from the holotype male collected in Western Kazakhstan. Here we synonymize it with A. cronebergi (Thorell, 1875), which was described from two syntype females from the Volga River and Daghestan. This species is redescribed in detail and its distribution is shown to be restricted to Russia and Ukraine, and previous records from Hungary are probably mistaken.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Systematics of Invertebrate Animals, Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Frunze Street 11, Novosibirsk 630091, Russia.. urmakuz@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Galina N
authors.initials: GN
authors.lastname: Azarkina
authors.forename: Sergei L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Esyunin
authors.forename: Evgeniy A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Kuz'min
authors.forename: Yuri M
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Marusik
mesh_terms: D063147:Animal Distribution; D000825:Animal Structures / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000254:growth & development; D000818:Animals; D049628:Body Size; D017753:Ecosystem; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009929:Organ Size; D012426:Russia; D013112:Spiders / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification* / Q000254:growth & development
keywords: Araneae, spider, Aranei, redescription, Lycosinae, new synonym