Pardosa cribrata Simon, 1876
Description
Male palp with tegular apophysis, wider than long. Body colour brown to green-brown. Prosoma with indistinct lateral longitudinal bands, not broken, with dark spots and black hairs. Prosoma length female: 2.8-3.2 mm, prosoma length male: 2.4-2.8 mm. Legs female: reddish yellow, distinctly spotted and annulated. Male: yellow. Femur male: I black, II-IV spotted dorsally. Opisthosoma with yellow pattern, distinctly pronounced.
Body length female: 7.9 mmAdditional information
in riverside and humid regions, also at salty locations
Frequency: not frequent in southern Central Europe, frequent in Southern Europe
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Tongiorgi 1966a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Loksa 1972)
Pedipalp
(Tongiorgi 1966a)
Pedipalp
(Loksa 1972)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Blagoev 2005)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Blagoev 2005)
Embolus
(Loksa 1972)
Tegular apophysis
(Loksa 1972)
Terminal apophysis
(Loksa 1972)
Epigyne
(Tongiorgi 1966a)
Epigyne
(Loksa 1972)
Epigyne
(Blagoev 2005)
Vulva
(Loksa 1972)
Vulva
(Blagoev 2005)
Habitus
(Loksa 1972)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Tongiorgi 1966a)
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
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Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019
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WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2