Alopecosa solitaria, (HERMAN, 1879)

Just, Pavel, Opatova, Vera & Dolejš, Petr, 2018, Does reproductive behaviour reflect phylogenetic relationships? An example from Central European Alopecosa wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185, pp. 1039-1056 : 1047

ALOPECOSA SOLITARIA (HERMAN, 1879)

Czech Republic, Mutěnice vineyard terrace,

9 October 2014, lgt. P.J., P.D., number of copulations = 9

Courtship was delayed in all males (0.08–2.58 min; Me = 1.25 min). Courting was composed of P_CI, O_TA, B_JS and L_W and lasted 0.13–9.06 min (µ = 2.66 min; SE = 0.93 min). Subsequently, females fell into catalepsy (C_H), which enabled males to begin extremely long copulations (18.01 min to 2 h 4.48 min; µ = 1 h 39.06 min; SE = 13.35 min). Palpal insertions (12–36; µ = 23.50; SE = 2.58) usually had a long duration (in six out of nine cases), with a single haematodochal expansion. The total number of haematodochal expansions per copulation ranged between 12 and 47 (µ = 26; SE = 3.66). After each insertion, males cleaned their palps and slowly moved their opisthosomata horizontally (O_Q).