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Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Pardosa  C. L. Koch, 1847   127 species

Pardosa atrata  (Thorell, 1873)

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 (Almquist, 2005).

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 2024): Northern Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China?
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.

Estonia   (no references) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Latvia   (Cera, 2018; Cera & Keiss, 2016) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Russia, Central   (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Northern   (Nekhaeva, 2020) ||| Russia, Western   (no references) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001; Almquist, 2005) |||
References

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

Almquist S (2005) Swedish Araneae, part 1 – families Atypidae to Hahniidae (Linyphiidae excluded). Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 62: 1-124 pdf

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

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 pdf

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 pdf

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

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 pdf

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 pdf

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

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
22-09-2023 Image insert
21-09-2023 Distribution update Detail
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02-10-2020 Distribution update Detail
23-01-2018 Distribution update Detail
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