Alopecosa farinosa (Herman, 1879)

Material examined.

• 1 ♂ (TNU 10199/2), Crimea, nr Sevastopol, western part of Ai-Petri Yaila, Karadagh Forest, Kristalnaya (= Maksimovitcha) Cave, 1. V. 2013, I. S. Turbanov leg.

Distribution.

Transpalaearctic polyzonal (Kovblyuk and Kastrygina 2015; Nentwig et al. 2024).

Records from the Crimean caves.

Map (Fig. 17 A – grey circle). Kristalnaya Cave on the western part of Ai-Petri Yaila.

Ecology.

Alopecosa farinosa is distributed throughout Crimea and is a common species in the mountains (Kovblyuk and Kastrygina 2015). This species has never been previously recorded in caves. Clearly, A. farinosa is an accidental species in caves, hence can be classified as a trogloxene species.