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title: "Common Fox Spider"
description: "Alopecosa pulverulenta — Insetti e ragni. Alopecosa is a species of wolf spiders in the genus Alopecosa with a palearctic distribution."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/common-fox-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Common Fox Spider

> Alopecosa pulverulenta — Insetti e ragni. Alopecosa is a species of wolf spiders in the genus Alopecosa with a palearctic distribution.

- Scientific name: *Alopecosa pulverulenta*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Prati e campi)
- iNaturalist observations: 1991
- Wikidata: [Q1759708](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1759708)
- iNaturalist taxon: [360598](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/360598)

## Names

- en: Common Fox Spider
- de: Kleine Scheintarantel
- fr: Lycose-renard poussiéreuse

## Countries with the most observations

GB (203), DK (64), SE (25), RU (11), DE (10), PT (9), CZ (8), FR (7), FI (6), IE (6), PL (6), BE (5)

## Summary

Alopecosa is a species of wolf spiders in the genus Alopecosa with a palearctic distribution.
It was described in chapter 5 of the book Svenska Spindlar of the Swedish arachnologist and entomologist Carl Alexander Clerck.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alopecosa_pulverulenta

## Photo

![Common Fox Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/common-fox-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: James Clow · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/78450242

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/common-fox-spider?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).