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

Pardosa gefsana  Roewer, 1959

Description
Male

Prosoma medium brown with yellow median band strongly narrowed at the back, lateral bands fairly wide, interrupted. Prosoma length 3.84 mm. Legs yellow. Opisthosoma pale grey, dorsum sligthly mottled with pale brown, cardiac mark indistinct.

Body length male: 6.8 mm
Female

Prosoma medium brown, median band poorly delimited, less strongly tapering than in males, lateral bands as in males. Prosoma length: 3.67 mm. Legs yellow, femora and tibiae annulated. Opisthosoma as in males but very faint.

Body length female: 7.5-8.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain, Italy (Sicily, Sardinia), North Africa
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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.

Algeria   (Tongiorgi & Sola, 1993; Alderweireldt & Jocqué, 1992; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019; Tongiorgi & Sola, 1993) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Libya   (Alderweireldt & Jocqué, 1992) ||| Morocco   (Tongiorgi & Sola, 1993; Alderweireldt & Jocqué, 1992) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019; Tongiorgi & Sola, 1993) ||| Tunisia   (Tongiorgi & Sola, 1993; Roewer, 1959b; Alderweireldt & Jocqué, 1992) |||
References

Alderweireldt M, Jocqué R (1992) A review of the nebulosa-group of Pardosa Koch 1847 in Africa, a complex with some highly variable species (Araneae Lycosidae). Tropical Zoology 5: 73-113 pdf

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Roewer C F (1959b) Araneae Lycosaeformia II (Lycosidae). Exploration du Parc National de l'Upemba, Mission G. F. de Witte 55: 1-518 pdf

Tongiorgi P, Sola C (1993) Pardosa nigristernis Denis, 1966. A North African component of the Italian and Spanish arachnofauna. Bulletin de la Société Neuchâteloise des Sciences Naturelles 116: 241-244 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

Updates
14-06-2020 Image insert
12-06-2020 Distribution update Detail
02-10-2014 Datasheet update Detail
02-10-2014 Image insert
15-04-2013 Distribution update Detail