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
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