On the synonymy of two wolf spider species of the genus (Araneae, Lycosidae) from the steppe zone of Russia.

Alopecosa atypica Ponomarev, 2008 is known from the holotype male collected in Western Kazakhstan. Here we synonymize it with A. cronebergi (Thorell, 1875), which was described from two syntype females from the Volga River and Daghestan.