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

Pardosa cincta (Kulczyński, 1887)

Description
Male

Male palp with a robust, C-shaped tegular apophysis and large, tooth-like terminal apophysis.
Prosoma brown, with narrow lateral bands, distinct and not broken. Median band reddish yellow, slightly broadened median part, anteriorly split up into 2 (rarely 3) branches that include 2 red, roundish spots. A dark line separates the median branch. Lateral bands yellow, reaching to clypeus, separated from margin of prosoma by narrow brown band. Prosoma length: 2.8-3.5 mm. Legs reddish. Femur slightly spotted. Opisthosoma with reddish pattern.

Female

Epigynal groove with divergent margins. 

Body length female: 7.0 mm
Additional information

high alpine species, 2000-2500 m

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Central, Eastern Europe
Phenology
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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.

Austria   (Buchar & Thaler, 1997) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Serbia   (Ćurčić et al., 2007) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
References

Buchar J (1971) Die Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen der Art Pardosa cincta (Kulczyński) (Araneae, Lycosidae). Acta Universitatis Carolinae Biologica 1970: 121-129 pdf

Buchar J (1981) Zur Lycosiden-Fauna von Tirol (Araneae: Lycosidae). Věstník Československé Zoologické Společnosti v Praze 45: 4-13 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

Ćurčić B P M, Deltshev C C, Tomić V T, Ćurčić S B (2007) Biodiversity of spiders: on some taxa new to Serbia and to science. Archives of Biological Sciences Belgrade 59: 19P-20P pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Fuhn I E, Niculescu-Burlacu F (1971) Fam. Lycosidae. Fauna Republicii Socialiste România (Arachnida) 5 (3): 1-253 pdf

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin 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

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 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
26-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
21-04-2020 Distribution update Detail
01-07-2014 Image insert