Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Pardosa  C. L. Koch, 1847   127 species

Pardosa saturatior  Simon, 1937

Description

Palp male: tarsus 1.5 mm long, very dark, black haired. Epigyne with septum, 0.75 mm long. Prosoma chocolate-brown, scarcely covered with grey hairs, lateral bands broken into 3-4 spots. Legs reddish yellow, distinctly annulated. Opisthosoma grey-black with very vague pattern.

Body length male: 7.0-8.0 mm
Body length female: 7.8-9.5 mm
Additional information

In alpine area up to snow line, in stony debris, on rocks and ice, above 1400 m.

Video:

Courtship behaviour (Chiarle et al. 2013) ( 1 ) ( 2 ) ( 3 )

 

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Spain: only a single record from an unpubl. thesis from 1980, otherwise restricted to the Alps, therefore here not taken into account
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Alps (France, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria, Slovenia)
Phenology
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Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Austria   (no references) ||| France   (no references) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Spain  Removed (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Switzerland   (no references) |||
References

Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Chiarle A, Kronestedt T, Isaia M (2013) Courtship behavior in European species of the genus Pardosa (Araneae: Lycosidae). Journal of Arachnology 41: 108-125 pdf

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Schenkel E (1925) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der schweizerischen Spinnenfauna. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 32: 253-318 pdf

Tongiorgi P (1966a) Italian Wolf spiders of the genus Pardosa (Araneae: Lycosidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 134: 275-334 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
04-06-2024 Distribution update Detail