araneae - Pardosa hyperborea

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Pardosa hyperborea (Thorell, 1872)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:018688

Description

Male

Cymbium mostly with 2 claws.
Prosoma length male: 2.3-3.0 mm. Tarsus I-II with inconspicuous projecting dorsal hairs on basal half, 1.5-2.0 times the diameter of tarsus long (often abraded). Opisthosoma ventrally with bristle-like hairs.

Body length male: 4.6-5.2 mm

Female

Prosoma length female: 2.2-2.9 mm

Body length female: 4.5-5.6 mm

Additional information

Open forests and moors

Distribution

Presence

No data

Distribution comment: No known record from Germany (Blick et al. 2016)

Global distribution (WSC 2026): North America, Greenland, Europe, Russia (Europe to South Siberia)

Phenology



Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Figures

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Agnarsson 1996)

Pedipalp, lateral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

Pedipalp, lateral view
(Agnarsson 1996)

Pedipalp, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Pedipalp, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Tip of bulbus, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Embolus
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Leg I
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Spinnerets, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Habitus, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Habitus, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Epigyne
(Agnarsson 1996)

Epigyne, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Epigyne
(Aadland unpubl.)

Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Prosoma, frontal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Femur I
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Tarsus I, lateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Habitus, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Habitus, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

Distribution List

Belarus (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Czechia (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Estonia (Vilbaste, 1987) ||| Finland (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Germany Removed (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Iceland (Agnarsson, 1996) ||| Latvia (Cera, 2018) ||| Lithuania (Biteniekytė & Rėlys, 2012) ||| Norway (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Poland (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Russia, Eastern (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Russia, Kaliningrad Region (Schikora, 1997) ||| Russia, Northern (Nekhaeva, 2020; Koponen et al., 1998) ||| Russia, Western (no references) ||| Sweden (Kronestedt, 2001) |||

References

Aadland B (unpubl.) .

Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129

Agnarsson I (1996) Íslenskar köngulær Fjölrit Náttúrufræðistofnunar 31: 1-175

Biteniekytė M, Rėlys V (2012) The checklist of Lithuanian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Biologija 57: 148-158

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510

Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152

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

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin

Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311

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

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

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

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Nekhaeva A A (2020) On the spider fauna (Arachnida: Aranei) of the Kanin Peninsula and Kolguev Island, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 29: 387-398

Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html

Schikora H-B (1997) Wachsende Regenmoorflächen im Zehlaubruch (Kaliningrad-Region): Extremlebensraum für epigäische Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae)? Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 27: 447-452

Vilbaste A (1987) Eesti Ämblikud (Aranei). Annoteeritud nimestik. Estonian spiders (Aranei). An annotated check list. Valgus, Tallinn. 113 pp. & 512 maps on 67 unpag. pages

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2

Updates

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