araneae - Pardosa atrata

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Pardosa atrata (Thorell, 1873)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:018537

Description

Male

Prosoma dark reddish brown, posterior median band yellowish, lateral longitudinal bands yellowish, interrupted by dark radial stripes. Chelicerae dark reddish brown. Sternum dark brown to black. Legs dark reddish brown, femora with lighter streaks. Opisthosoma: dorsum greyish brown, cardiac mark yellowish, posterior half with dark greyish brown median band, borders with rows of white dots, venter greyish brown.

Body length male: 9.0-10.0 mm

Female

Colouration as in males but darker.

Body length female: 7.6-10.3 mm

Distribution

Presence

No data

Global distribution (WSC 2026): Northern Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China?

Phenology



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Figures

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Song et al. 1999)

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Pedipalp, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Embolus
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Embolic division
(Marusik 2023)

Tegular apophysis
(Marusik 2023)

Prosoma, frontal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Leg I, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Spinnerets, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Habitus, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Habitus, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Epigyne, ventral view
(Song et al. 1999)

Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Epigyne
(Morka unpubl.)

Epigyne
(Marusik 2023)

Epigyne
(Esyunin et al. 2024c)

Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Vulva, dorsal view
(Marusik 2023)

Vulva
(Esyunin et al. 2024c)

Prosoma, frontal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Tarsus I, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Spinnerets, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Habitus, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Habitus, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Chelicera
(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.

Estonia (Vilbaste, 1987) ||| Finland (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Latvia (Cera, 2018; Cera & Keiss, 2016) ||| Norway (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Russia, Central (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Russia, Northern (Nekhaeva, 2020; Koponen et al., 1998) ||| Russia, Western (no references) ||| Sweden (Kronestedt, 2001; Almquist, 2006) |||

References

Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129

Almquist S (2006) Swedish Araneae, part 1 – families Atypidae to Hahniidae (Linyphiidae excluded). Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 62(2005): 1-284

Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152

Cera I, Keiss O (2016) Spider species new to the fauna of Latvia and new localities for Gnaphosa lapponum and G. nigerrima (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Latvijas Entomologs 53: 122-124

Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1996a) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Urals. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 228 pp.

Esyunin S L, Kabdrakhimov A A, Efimik V E (2024c) On the spiders (Aranei) collected by D.E. Kharitonov's expedition to Lake Zaisan, East Kazakhstan Area. Arthropoda Selecta 33: 129-148

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm

Koponen S, Marusik Y M, Tanasevitch A V (1998) New data on the spider fauna of the Polar Urals (Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 6: 109-119

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001]

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Marusik K Y (2023) A new species related to Pardosa atrata (Araneae, Lycosidae) from Armenia makes the distribution range of the atrata group disjunctive. ZooKeys 1180: 225-235

Morka G H (unpubl.)

Nekhaeva A A (2020) On the spider fauna (Arachnida: Aranei) of the Kanin Peninsula and Kolguev Island, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 29: 387-398

Song D X, Zhu M S, Chen J (1999) The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp.

Vilbaste A (1987) Eesti Ämblikud (Aranei). Annoteeritud nimestik. Estonian spiders (Aranei). An annotated check list. Valgus, Tallinn. 113 pp. & 512 maps on 67 unpag. pages

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

Updates

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