Alopecosa farinosa, , ITALIAN POPULATION

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 : 1045

ALOPECOSA FARINOSA, ITALIAN POPULATION

Italy, Nago , alpine meadow, 20 October 2013, lgt. P.J., number of copulations = 12

Males typically began to court immediately [four males were latent (0.06–0.30 min)], with intensifying P_CI. Throughout the entire courtship process, B_JS occurred and resulted in B_D and L_ R. The femur, patella and tibia of legs I pointed upwards together with the distal segments. The impact of legs I on the substrate was harder and faster than in the Czech population. Female catalepsy was C_ E. Courtship duration was 0.85–4.23 min (µ = 2.01 min; SE = 0.27 min). The number of insertions was one to 14 (µ = 7.5; SE = 1.2), with each insertion usually accompanied by a single, long haematodochal expansion (maximum 0.4 min). Multiple haematodochal expansion was recorded once (two expansions per insertion in one male). The number of expansions was 7.6 (SE = 1.19), and duration of copulation Q 1 = 3.18 min, Me = 4.05 min and Q 3 = 5.56 min. Between insertions, males performed O_Q and quivered their palps .