Alopecosa pulverulenta, (CLERCK, 1757)

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 PULVERULENTA (CLERCK, 1757)

Czech Republic, Starý Brunst , mountain meadow, 9 May 2013, lgt. P.D., Frauenthal, 8 May 2013, coll. P.D., number of copulations = 3

Males began to court with P_CR immediately after being placed in the arena, and one male was latent (1.75 min). Males approached females with L_A, B_JS, B_C, B_D and O_ TA. After courtship (2.36, 4.46 and 2.96 min), females became cataleptic (C_E). The copulations of A. pulverulenta comprised a high number of haematodochal expansions. The first pair copulated for 4.16 min, and six palpal insertions with 21 haematodochal expansions (one to six expansions per insertion) occurred during copulation. Copulation in the second pair lasted 28.33 min and was accompanied by five insertions, each with 19–65 haematodochal expansions, totalling 225 haematodochal expansions. The third pair copulated for 31.70 min, and 28 insertions with 210 haematodochal expansions (one to 20 expansions per insertion) occurred. During copulation, males quivered their opisthosomata (O_Q) .