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

Pardosa buchari  Ovtsharenko, 1979

Description
Male

Palps black, patellae dorsally brownish and with white pubescence. Tegular apohypsis slender, terminal apophysis with distinct tooth. Body color very dark, brownish, almost black. Prosoma pattern indistinct, median band tapering. Sternum black. Leg femora black, with longitudinal  stripes, distal segments brownish. Tarsi I as in females. Venter black.

Prosoma length 2.4 mm, width 2.0 mm.

Body length male: 5.4 mm
Female

Epigyne septum broad, its hind angles pointed. Prosoma pattern distinct; median band brown, mostly tapering, in some specimens diamond-shaped. Lateral bands continuous, in some specimens divided into three segments by two faint dark lines. Sternum black. Legs brown, annulated. Coxae ventrally of light color. Opisthosoma with faint lanceolate stripe and paired spots. Venter of light color.

Prosoma length 2.6 mm, width 2.1 mm.

Body length female: 6.2 mm
Additional information

In the subalpine to alpine zones of the Caucasus at 1800 to 2500 m asl.

Females can be confused with P. incerta.

Frequency: Frequent

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Ukraine, Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan), Iran
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.

Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) ||| Ukraine   (no references) |||
References

Buchar J, Thaler K (1998) Lycosidae from the high alpine zone of the Caucasus range, with comparative remarks on the fauna of the Alps (Arachnida: Araneae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 30: 705-717 pdf

Kovblyuk M M (2014) Spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of Crimea: faunogenesis and hypothesis of Pontida. Ukrainska Entomofaunistyka 5(2): 29-53 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Ovtsharenko V I (1979) Spiders of the families Gnaphosidae, Thomisidae, Lycosidae (Aranei) in the Great Caucasus. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, Leningrad 85: 39-53 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

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 pdf

Updates
16-02-2015 Distribution update Detail
18-12-2014 Image insert
13-05-2014 Datasheet update Detail
09-07-2013 Image insert