Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Pardosa  C. L. Koch, 1847   125 species

Pardosa cincta (Kulczyński, 1887)

Description
Male

Male palp with a robust, C-shaped tegular apophysis and large, tooth-like terminal apophysis.
Prosoma brown, with narrow lateral bands, distinct and not broken. Median band reddish yellow, slightly broadened median part, anteriorly split up into 2 (rarely 3) branches that include 2 red, roundish spots. A dark line separates the median branch. Lateral bands yellow, reaching to clypeus, separated from margin of prosoma by narrow brown band. Prosoma length: 2.8-3.5 mm. Legs reddish. Femur slightly spotted. Opisthosoma with reddish pattern.

Female

Epigynal groove with divergent margins. 

Body length female: 7.0 mm
Additional information

high alpine species, 2000-2500 m

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Central, Eastern Europe
Phenology
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Distribution List
Austria   (Buchar & Thaler, 1997) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Serbia   (Ćurčić et al., 2007) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
References

Buchar J (1971) Die Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen der Art Pardosa cincta (Kulczyński) (Araneae, Lycosidae). Acta Universitatis Carolinae Biologica 1970: 121-129 pdf

Buchar J (1981) Zur Lycosiden-Fauna von Tirol (Araneae: Lycosidae). Věstník Československé Zoologické Společnosti v Praze 45: 4-13 pdf

Buchar J, Thaler K (1997) Die Wolfspinnen von Österreich 4 (Schluß): Gattung Pardosa max. p. (Arachnida, Araneae: Lycosidae) - Faunistisch-tiergeographische Übersicht. Carinthia II 187/107: 515-539 pdf

Ćurčić B P M, Deltshev C C, Tomić V T, Ćurčić S B (2007) Biodiversity of spiders: on some taxa new to Serbia and to science. Archives of Biological Sciences Belgrade 59: 19P-20P pdf

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 pdf

Fuhn I E, Niculescu-Burlacu F (1971) Fam. Lycosidae. Fauna Republicii Socialiste România (Arachnida) 5 (3): 1-253 pdf

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

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
26-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
21-04-2020 Distribution update Detail
01-07-2014 Image insert