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

Pardosa femoralis Simon, 1876

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:018642

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Description
Male

Prosoma dark yellowish brown, with indistinct leight bands, median band widened behind ocular area, lateral bands broken into 3-4 spots. Chelicerae yellow. with long white and black hairs. Sternum brown, with a narrow light spot anteriorly. Legs yellowish brown, femora dorsally indistinctly annulated. Opisthosoma: dorsum brown, suffused with black, and with a light lanceolate spot narrowly bordered with black, venter with white pubescence and scattered black teeth.

Body length male: 6.6 mm
Female

Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 7.7 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Russia (Europe)
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Simon 1937)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Holm & Kronestedt 1970)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Holm & Kronestedt 1970)

species

female Epigyne
(Simon 1937)

species

female Epigyne/vulva
(Holm & Kronestedt 1970)

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   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Russia, Central   (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| 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

Holm Å, Kronestedt T (1970) A taxonomic study of the wolf spiders of the Pardosa pullata-group (Araneae, Lycosidae). Acta entomologica Bohemoslovaca 67: 408-428 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

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Simon E (1937) Les arachnides de France 6 (5). Paris (Roret): 979-1298 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