Tags: Arachnid.

Allocosa brasiliensis is a burrowing wolf spider species from southern South America. Long known to science it remained almost unstudied until its unusual sexual behavior was described in the early 21st century.This ground-dwelling spider is native to mainly coastal areas from southeastern Brazil via Uruguay and Argentina to southern Chile though its known occurrences are patchy.

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binomial authority
Alexander Petrunkevitch
class
Arachnid
conservation status
NE
conservation status system
iucn3.1
family
Wolf spider, Allocosinae
genus
Allocosa
kingdom
Animal
order
Araneomorphae, Spider
phylum
Arthropod
synonym
Allocosa difficilis (Mello-Leitão 1951), Allocosa senex (Mello-Leitão 1945), Araucaniocosa difficilis (Mello-Leitão 1951), Glieschiella senex (Mello-Leitão 1945), Lycosa difficilis (Mello-Leitão 1951), Moenkhausiana brasiliensis (Petrunkevitch [1910])

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