Pardosa caucasica Ovtsharenko, 1979
Description
Male
Male palp with broad and robust tegular apophysis; its distal branch twice as wide as in other species of the P. lugubris group. Cymbium with broad tip in lateral view. Prosoma dark brown, with small black bristles, median stripe clearly visible, white haired. Prosoma 2.8-3.0 mm long; 2.2 mm wide.. Sternum light brown, with spots. Chelicerae dark brown; with two anterior and three posterior teeth. Proximal part of femur I dark, distal femur part to tarsi pale yellow; femora II-IV with four gray annulations. Opisthosoma light brown, median stripe dark brown, venter dark, spinnerets likewise.
Body length male: 4.9 mmFemale
Dark brown coloration in front of the anterior epigynal pocket.
Body length female: 5.0-6.0 mmDistribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Töpfer-Hofmann et al. 2000)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Töpfer-Hofmann et al. 2000)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Nadolny & Kovblyuk 2012)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Nadolny & Kovblyuk 2012)
Apical part of bulbus
(Nadolny & Kovblyuk 2012)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Nadolny & Kovblyuk 2012)
Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Nadolny & Kovblyuk 2012)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Nadolny & Kovblyuk 2012)
Bulbus, frontal view
(Nadolny & Kovblyuk 2012)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Nadolny & Kovblyuk 2012)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Nadolny & Kovblyuk 2012)
Epigyne/vulva, ventral view
(Nadolny & Kovblyuk 2012)
Epigyne/vulva, ventral view
(Nadolny & Kovblyuk 2012)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Nadolny & Kovblyuk 2012)
Vulva, ventral view
(Nadolny & Kovblyuk 2012)
Habitus
(Nadolny & Kovblyuk 2012)
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.
References
Mikhailov K G, Propistsova E A (2017) On the spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) from Armenia. Arthropoda Selecta 26: 369-371 
Nadolny A A, Kovblyuk M M (2012) Members of Pardosa amentata and P. lugubris species groups in Crimea and Caucasus with notes on P. abagensis (Aranei: Lycosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 21: 67-80
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Töpfer-Hofmann G, Cordes D, von Helversen O (2000) Cryptic species and behavioural isolation in the Pardosa lugubris group (Araneae, Lycosidae), with description of two new species. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 257-274
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