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

Pardosa lapponica (Thorell, 1872)

Description
Male

Colouration as in females.

Body length male: 5.5-6.1 mm
Female

Prosoma brown, median band consists of 2 reddish spots anteriorly and a yellow-red band posteriorly, lateral bands yellowish. Legs reddish, femora blotched.

Body length female: 5.9-7.2 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Presence in Italy doubtful (Pantini & Isaia, 2015), therefore removed
Global distribution (WSC 2026): USA (Alaska), Canada, Scandinavia, Russia (Europe to Far East), China
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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.

Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Russia, Northern   (Koponen et al., 1998) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) |||
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

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

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

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 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

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

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 pdf

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

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Tongiorgi P (1966a) Italian Wolf spiders of the genus Pardosa (Araneae: Lycosidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 134: 275-334 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
07-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
11-04-2024 Image insert
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22-04-2014 Datasheet update Detail
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15-04-2013 Distribution update Detail