Pardosa gefsana Roewer, 1959
Description
Male
Prosoma medium brown with yellow median band strongly narrowed at the back, lateral bands fairly wide, interrupted. Prosoma length 3.84 mm. Legs yellow. Opisthosoma pale grey, dorsum sligthly mottled with pale brown, cardiac mark indistinct.
Body length male: 6.8 mmFemale
Prosoma medium brown, median band poorly delimited, less strongly tapering than in males, lateral bands as in males. Prosoma length: 3.67 mm. Legs yellow, femora and tibiae annulated. Opisthosoma as in males but very faint.
Body length female: 7.5-8.5 mmDistribution
Figures
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Alderweireldt & Jocqué 1992)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Alderweireldt & Jocqué 1992)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Alderweireldt & Jocqué 1992)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Tongiorgi & Sola 1993)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Tongiorgi & Sola 1993)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Epigyne
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Alderweireldt & Jocqué 1992)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Prosoma, ventral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
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.
References
Alderweireldt M, Jocqué R (1992) A review of the nebulosa-group of Pardosa Koch 1847 in Africa, a complex with some highly variable species (Araneae Lycosidae). Tropical Zoology 5: 73-113 
Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357
Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Elkrew H, Hamza A, Ghana S, Shaibi T, Swehli A I, Elmareme H, Ahmad A (2024) Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Libya. Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences 22: 19346-19369
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
Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95
Lecigne S, Moutaouakil S, Lips J (2025) Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – second note. On new species and new records from caves and miscellaneous terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 40(1, supplement): 1-184
Roewer C F (1959b) Araneae Lycosaeformia II (Lycosidae). Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba, Mission G. F. de Witte 55: 1-518
Tongiorgi P, Sola C (1993) Pardosa nigristernis Denis, 1966. A North African component of the Italian and Spanish arachnofauna. Bulletin de la Société Neuchâteloise des Sciences Naturelles 116: 241-244
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
| 05-10-2025 | Distribution update | Detail |
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