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Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Pardosa  C. L. Koch, 1847   125 species

Pardosa saturatior Simon, 1937

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:018909

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Description
Male

Palp male: tarsus 1.5 mm long, very dark, black haired. 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
Female

Epigyne with septum, 0.75 mm long. 

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 2026): Alps (France, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria, Slovenia)
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Tongiorgi 1966a)

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male Pedipalp
(Tongiorgi 1966a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Schenkel 1925)

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female Epigyne
(Tongiorgi 1966a)

Distribution List
Austria   (Buchar & Thaler, 1997) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Spain  Removed (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) |||
References

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

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 pdf

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

Buchar J, Thaler K (1997) Die Wolfspinnen von Österreich 4 (Schluß): Gattung Pardosa max. p. (Arachnida, Araneae: Lycosidae) - Faunistisch-tiergeographische Übersicht. Carinthia II 187/107: 515-539 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

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

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

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12 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 (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
28-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
04-06-2024 Distribution update Detail