Pardosa schenkeli Lessert, 1904
Description
Male
Male palp with tegular apophysis appearing as round lamella in ventral view, with robust tooth in the middle. Prosoma dark brown. Legs yellowish-brown. Femur laterally striped with black. Opisthosoma black-brown, with white haired cardiac mark, black margined, one yellow band on each side, touching each other anterior of spinnerets.
Body length male: 4.1 mmFemale
Epigyne with 2 anterior pockets, median septum long and wavy. Vulva with at least 2 times twisted entrance duct.
Body length female: 4.5 mmAdditional information
Predominantly in the mountains between 1500 and 2500 m. Rarely found.
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Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Tongiorgi 1966a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Tongiorgi 1966a)
Pedipalp
(Azheganova 1968)
Pedipalp
(Tongiorgi 1966a)
Pedipalp
(Tongiorgi 1966a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Kronestedt 2006)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kronestedt 2006)
Prosoma, frontal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Spinnerets
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Habitus, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Tongiorgi 1966a)
Epigyne
(Tongiorgi 1966a)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Oger & Miquet 2017)
Epigyne
(Kronestedt 2006)
Epigyne
(Kronestedt 2006)
Epigyne
(Fjellberg unpubl.)
Vulva
(Azheganova 1968)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Vulva
(Oger & Miquet 2017)
Vulva, ventral view
(Kronestedt 2006)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Fjellberg unpubl.)
Vulva, ventral view
(Fjellberg unpubl.)
Prosoma, frontal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Habitus, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
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
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Biteniekytė M, Rėlys V (2012) The checklist of Lithuanian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Biologija 57: 148-158
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Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1996a) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Urals. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 228 pp.
Fjellberg A (unpubl.) .
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
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Kronestedt T (2006) On Pardosa schenkeli (Araneae, Lycosidae) and its presence in Germany and Poland. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 32: 31-37
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Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)
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Oger P, Miquet A (2017) Découverte en Savoie de deux espèces nouvelles pour la France (Araneae: Linyphiidae, Lycosidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 4: 5-8
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html
Thaler K (2000) Fragmenta faunistica Tirolensia - XIII (Arachnida: Araneae; Myriapoda: Diplopoda; Insecta, Diptera: Mycetophiloidea, Psychodidae, Trichoceridae). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 87: 243-256
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