Pardosa aquila Buchar & Thaler, 1998
Description
Male
Overall colouration dark. Prosoma with indistinct pattern, median band tapering. Legs: femora dark, patellae and tibiae suffused with black, metatarsi and tarsi brownish. Opisthosoma: dorsum with anterior lanceolate band and pairs of brown spots.
Body length male: 5.8 mmFemale
Colouration as in males.
Body length female: 6.6-9.1 mmDistribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Buchar & Thaler 1998)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Demircan Aksan & Batur 2025)
Embolic division
(Buchar & Thaler 1998)
Embolic division, ventral view
(Demircan Aksan & Batur 2025)
Embolic division, ventral view
(Demircan Aksan & Batur 2025)
Tegular apophysis
(Buchar & Thaler 1998)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Buchar & Thaler 1998)
Epigyne
(Demircan Aksan & Batur 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
Akpınar A, Varol İ (2013) Contributions to the Turkish wolf spiders (Arachnida: Lycosidae). [note: Lycosa boninensis, Pardosa anomala and Trochosa abdita are not plausible and not included in Spiders of Europe] Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 65: 271-272 
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
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
Demircan Aksan N, Batur Z (2025) First data on the spider fauna of Bayburt, with a new record and additional notes (Arachnida: Araneae). Cumhuriyet Science Journal 46: 478-482
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 (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2