Aulonia
Genus of spiders
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Aulonia is a genus of wolf spiders, family Lycosidae, first described as a subgenus by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1847.[3] Its species are native from Europe to Central Asia.[1]
| Aulonia | |
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| female A. albimana | |
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| male A. kratochvili | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Lycosidae |
| Genus: | Aulonia Koch, 1847[1] |
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| Synonyms[2][1] | |
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Taxonomy
In 1847, Carl Ludwig Koch created a subgenus of Lycosa, Lycosa (Aulonia), with the species Lycosa albimana.[3][note 1] In 1870, Tamerlan Thorell explicitly synonymized Koch's Lycosa subgenus Aulonia with the genus Aulonia, giving the type species as A. albimana.[2] This treatment was followed in 1876 by Eugène Simon.[4]
Species
As of October 2025[update], this genus included two species:[1]
- Aulonia albimana (Walckenaer, 1805) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus (type species)
- Aulonia kratochvili Dunin, Buchar & Absolon, 1986 – Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan
