Sand bear spider
Arctosa perita (Latreille, 1799)
Status not recordedspiders
The sand bear spider (Arctosa perita) is a species in the family Lycosidae, order Araneae. Recorded adults reach 8 mm in length. Source checklists list it for 2 countries: France and Portugal.
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Quick facts about the sand bear spider
- Weight
- Not recorded
- Length
- 6 mm – 8 mmsrc for Length
- Lifespan
- Not recorded
- Diet
- Invertivoresrc for Diet
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- Not recorded
- Young per litter or clutch
- Not recorded
- Active
- By day (diurnal)src for Active
- Generations a year
- Onesrc for Generations a year
- Conservation status
- Not recorded
- Countries on record
- 2 countriessrc for Countries on record
How big is the sand bear spider?
Where does the sand bear spider live?
Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.
The sand bear spider is listed for 2 countries.
- Listed
- Not listed
The same countries as a list
Why a country list is not a range map
Listed by: WSC (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.
Where has it been introduced?
The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the sand bear spider as introduced in 1 country.
Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).
Is the sand bear spider endangered?
No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.
How is the sand bear spider classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumArthropoda
- classArachnida
- orderAraneae
- familyLycosidae
- genusArctosa
- SpeciesArctosa perita (Latreille, 1799)
Synonyms Aranea perita, Arctosa cinerea, Arctosa filicata, Arctosa picta, Arctosa picta, Arctosa velox, Lycosa perita
Other names and names in other languages (20)
- Eurasian wolf spiderEnglish
- Sand bear wolf spiderEnglish
- Sand wolf spiderEnglish
- slíďák písečnýCzech
- KlitgraveedderkopDanish
- Sand-WolfsspinneGerman
- Bunter SandwühlwolfGerman
- dyyniotsohämähäkkiFinnish
- dyyniotsokkiFinnish
- Arctosa des sablesFrench
- tarka farkaspókHungarian
- Smėlyninis pasalūnasLithuanian
- strandskrubbedderkoppNorwegian Bokmål
- gewone zandwolfspinDutch
- Wymyk piaskowyPolish
- Aranha-lobo-peritaPortuguese
- Паучиха-медведица умелаяRussian
- strehúň piesočnýSlovak
- dynvargspindelSwedish
- 佩里熊蛛Chinese
Relatives of the sand bear spider
Other species in the same genus Arctosa.
Leopard bear-spider
Arctosa leopardus
Hilltop wolf spider
Arctosa alpigena
Beach wolf spider
Arctosa littoralis
Raptor wolf spider
Arctosa raptor
Yellow-striped bear-spider
Arctosa fulvolineata
Shiny wolf spider
Arctosa rubicunda
CompareSand bear spider vs Leopard bear-spiderSand bear spider vs Hilltop wolf spiderSand bear spider vs Beach wolf spiderSand bear spider vs Raptor wolf spider
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
How big is the sand bear spider?
An adult sand bear spider measures 6 mm – 8 mm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.
Where does the sand bear spider live?
Catalogue of Life checklists list the sand bear spider for 2 countries: France and Portugal. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.
Is the sand bear spider an invasive species?
The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the sand bear spider as introduced in 1 country: Canada, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.
What kind of animal is the sand bear spider?
The sand bear spider (Arctosa perita) belongs to the family Lycosidae in the order Araneae.
Sources and how to cite this page
Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.
- Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf - Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-11-13
Pagad, S., Genovesi, P., Carnevali, L., Schigel, D. & McGeoch, M.A. (2018) Introducing the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species. Scientific Data 5: 170202. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.202. Country checklists published through GBIF by the IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group. - TraitCH: a multi-taxa functional trait dataset for Switzerland and Europe · CC BY 4.0 · 2.0
Chauvier, Y., Adde, A., Bergamini, A. et al. (2025) TraitCH: a multi-taxa functional trait dataset for Switzerland and Europe. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15063844
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