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

Pardosa colchica  Mcheidze, 1946

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:018588

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Description
Male

Prosoma brown, with wide yellow median band and 2 pale lateral bands, eye region dark brown. Prosoma length: 2.23 mm. Sternum yellow. Legs yellow, with numerous brown rings. Opisthosoma: dorsum brown with a white cardiac mark and 2 white longitudinal bands touching each other in posterior half, sides brown, venter yellow-grey.

Body length male: 4.23 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 2.45 mm. Colouration lighter as in males and differs as follows:  median band on prosoma wider, lateral bands bright yellow. Venter yellow.

Body length female: 4.73 mm
Additional information

Mostly found in plains, foothills and mountains up to 1050 m asl.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan), Iran
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Zyuzin & Logunov 2000)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Zyuzin & Logunov 2000)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Zyuzin & Logunov 2000)

species

female Vulva
(Zyuzin & Logunov 2000)

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.

Armenia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Zhukovets, 2021) |||
References

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Zhukovets E M (2021) [Additions and remarks to the list of spiders of the Teberda State Natural Biosphere Reserve with description of a new species of the genus Araneus Clerck, 1757 (Aranei, Araneidae)]. In: Prischepchik, O. V. & Makovetskaya, E. V. (eds.) Results and prospects for the development of entomology in Eastern Europe: a collection of articles of the IV International Scientific and Practical Conference dedicated to the memory of Alexander Mikhailovich Tereshkin (1953–2020), December 1–3, 2021, Minsk. A. N. Varaksin, Minsk, pp. 26-38. pdf

Zyuzin A A, Logunov D V (2000) New and little-known species of the Lycosidae from Azerbaijan, the Caucasus (Araneae, Lycosidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 305-319 pdf

Updates
15-12-2021 Distribution update Detail
31-12-2013 Datasheet update Detail
31-12-2013 Image insert