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

Pardosa occidentalis Simon, 1881

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:018820

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Description
Male

Colouration as in females.

Female

Prosoma brown, ocular area almost black, median and lateral bands yellow. Legs: femora with black spots dorsally, tibiae and metatarsi with indistinct annulation, tarsi somewhat darker. Opisthosoma with variable pattern.

Body length female: 7.0 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Spain, France, Italy (Sardinia)
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ledoux 1973)

species

male Pedipalp, lateral view
(Ledoux 1973)

species

male Habitus
(Ledoux 1973)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Tongiorgi 1966b)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Ledoux 1973)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Ledoux 1973)

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female Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Ledoux 1973)

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female Vulva
(Ledoux 1973)

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female Habitus
(Ledoux 1973)

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.

France   (no references) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

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

Ledoux J-C (1973) Notes d'aranéologie: 3, Pardosa occidentalis (Araneae, Lycosidae), espèce nouvelle pour la France. Entomologiste 29: 11-15 pdf

Tongiorgi P (1966b) Wolf spiders of the Pardosa monticola group (Araneae, Lycosidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 134: 335-359 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
15-10-2013 Datasheet update Detail
15-10-2013 Image insert