Pardosa colchica Mcheidze, 1946
Description
Male
Prosoma brown, with wide yellow median band and 2 pale lateral bands, eye region dark brown. Prosoma length: 2.23 mm. Sternum yellow. Legs yellow, with numerous brown rings. Opisthosoma: dorsum brown with a white cardiac mark and 2 white longitudinal bands touching each other in posterior half, sides brown, venter yellow-grey.
Body length male: 4.23 mmFemale
Prosoma length: 2.45 mm. Colouration lighter as in males and differs as follows: median band on prosoma wider, lateral bands bright yellow. Venter yellow.
Body length female: 4.73 mmAdditional information
Mostly found in plains, foothills and mountains up to 1050 m asl.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Zyuzin & Logunov 2000)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Zyuzin & Logunov 2000)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Zyuzin & Logunov 2000)
Vulva
(Zyuzin & Logunov 2000)
Distribution List
References
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 
Zhukovets E M (2021) [Additions and remarks to the list of spiders of the Teberda State Natural Biosphere Reserve with description of a new species of the genus Araneus Clerck, 1757 (Aranei, Araneidae)]. In: Prischepchik, O. V. & Makovetskaya, E. V. (eds.) Results and prospects for the development of entomology in Eastern Europe: a collection of articles of the IV International Scientific and Practical Conference dedicated to the memory of Alexander Mikhailovich Tereshkin (1953–2020), December 1–3, 2021, Minsk. A. N. Varaksin, Minsk, pp. 26-38.
Zyuzin A A, Logunov D V (2000) New and little-known species of the Lycosidae from Azerbaijan, the Caucasus (Araneae, Lycosidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 305-319