Pardosa buchari Ovtsharenko, 1979
Description
Male
Palps black, patellae dorsally brownish and with white pubescence. Tegular apohypsis slender, terminal apophysis with distinct tooth. Body color very dark, brownish, almost black. Prosoma pattern indistinct, median band tapering. Sternum black. Leg femora black, with longitudinal stripes, distal segments brownish. Tarsi I as in females. Venter black.
Prosoma length 2.4 mm, width 2.0 mm.
Body length male: 5.4 mmFemale
Epigyne septum broad, its hind angles pointed. Prosoma pattern distinct; median band brown, mostly tapering, in some specimens diamond-shaped. Lateral bands continuous, in some specimens divided into three segments by two faint dark lines. Sternum black. Legs brown, annulated. Coxae ventrally of light color. Opisthosoma with faint lanceolate stripe and paired spots. Venter of light color.
Prosoma length 2.6 mm, width 2.1 mm.
Body length female: 6.2 mmAdditional information
In the subalpine to alpine zones of the Caucasus at 1800 to 2500 m asl.
Females can be confused with P. incerta.
Frequency: Frequent
Distribution
Phenology
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
 |  |
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Zyuzin & Logunov 2000)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Zyuzin & Logunov 2000)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ovtsharenko 1979)
Tegular apophysis
(Buchar & Thaler 1998)
Terminal apophysis
(Buchar & Thaler 1998)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Ovtsharenko 1979)
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.
References
Buchar J, Thaler K (1998) Lycosidae from the high alpine zone of the Caucasus range, with comparative remarks on the fauna of the Alps (Arachnida: Araneae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 30: 705-717 
Kovblyuk M M (2014) Spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of Crimea: faunogenesis and hypothesis of Pontida. Ukrainska Entomofaunistyka 5(2): 29-53
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Ovtsharenko V I (1979) Spiders of the families Gnaphosidae, Thomisidae, Lycosidae (Aranei) in the Great Caucasus. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, Leningrad 85: 39-53
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
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