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

Pardosa giebeli (Pavesi, 1873)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:018661

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Description
Male

Embolus long and pointed.
Prosoma dark brown, median longitudinal band reddish yellow, vague anteriorly. Lateral longitudinal bands of prosoma indistinct and interrupted. Legs red-brown. Femur spotted, annulated dorsally. Opisthosoma black-brown with red pattern. Broad, arrow-shaped median stripe surrounded by white hairs, remaining spots merged.

Body length male: 5.7-6.3 mm
Female

Epigyne with anterior part of epigynal groove hardly longer than posterior part. 

Body length female: 5.7-6.3 mm
Additional information

in meadows, heath and rocky areas, Alps, 2000-3000 m

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Alps (France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria)
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Tongiorgi 1966a)

species

male Pedipalp
(Tongiorgi 1966a)

species

male Embolus, ventral view
(Kronestedt 2004)

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female Epigyne
(Tongiorgi 1966a)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Kronestedt 2004)

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.

Austria   (Buchar & Thaler, 1997) ||| France   (Lecigne et al., 2022) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) |||
References

Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244 pdf

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 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

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

Kronestedt T (2004) Studies on species of Holarctic Pardosa groups (Araneae, Lycosidae). VI. On the identity of Pardosa luciae Tongiorgi with notes on P. trailli (O. P.-Cambridge) and some other species in the P. nigra-group. In Thaler, K. (ed.), Diversität und Biologie von Webspinnen, Skorpionen und anderen Spinnentieren. Denisia 12: 281-290 pdf

Lecigne S, Courtial C, Danflous S, Déjean S, Guerbaa K, Jacquet C, Montagne D, Montardi Y, Villepoux O (2022) De araneis Galliae IV, actualisation du référentiel des araignées de France - troisième note. Révision du statut de certaines espèces de la faune de France. Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 6: 3-38 pdf

Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12 pdf

Tongiorgi P (1966a) Italian Wolf spiders of the genus Pardosa (Araneae: Lycosidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 134: 275-334 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
27-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
21-01-2022 Distribution update Detail