Pardosa italica Tongiorgi, 1966
Description
Male
Prosoma dark brown, covered with grey hairs, median band reddish yellow, restricted to thoracic region, lateral bands reddish yellow, broken. Chelicerae yellow. Sternum dark brown. Legs yellow, femora annulated, tibiae weakly annulated.
Female
Prosoma similar to male. Chelicerae reddish-yellow. Legs clearly annulated. Opisthosoma black, anterior lanceolate band reddish, dorsum with pattern consisting of yellow and brown spots.
Body length female: 7 mmDistribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Tongiorgi 1966a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Tongiorgi 1966a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Song et al. 1999)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Demircan Aksan & Batur 2025)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Zamani et al. 2019)
Embolic division, ventral view
(Demircan Aksan & Batur 2025)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Tongiorgi 1966a)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Song et al. 1999)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Buchar 1968)
Epigyne
(Zamani et al. 2019)
Epigyne
(Demircan Aksan & Batur 2025)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Tongiorgi 1966a)
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.
References
Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) 
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Buchar J (1968) Zur Lycosidenfauna Bulgariens (Arachn., Araneae). Věstník Československé Zoologické Společnosti v Praze 32: 116-130
Buchar J (2009) Distribution patterns of wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae) along a transect from Greece to the Czech Republic. Contributions to Natural History 12: 315-340
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
Déjean S, Canard A (2024) Contribution à la connaissance des araignées (Araneae) de Corse. Revue Arachnologique (2) 11: 59-67
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
Efil L, Bayram A, Deltshev C (2012) The determination of spider species (Araneae) in alfalfa areas in Southeast Anatolia Region. Türkiye Entomoloji Bülteni 2: 31-35
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
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App
Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.
Song D X, Zhu M S, Chen J (1999) The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp.
Tongiorgi P (1966a) Italian Wolf spiders of the genus Pardosa (Araneae: Lycosidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 134: 275-334
Vasiliev A I, Mikhailov K G (2023) Annotated checklist of spiders (Araneae) of the Republic of Moldova. Invertebrate Zoology 20: 307-342
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Zamani A, Tanasevitch A V, Nadolny A A, Esyunin S L, Marusik Y M (2019) New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Aranei). Euroasian Entomological Journal 18: 233-243
Updates
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| 03-10-2025 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 09-01-2025 | Distribution insert | Detail |
| 21-11-2022 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 21-11-2022 | Distribution insert | Detail |
| 29-01-2021 | Distribution insert | Detail |
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| 22-04-2014 | Datasheet update | Detail |
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| 01-12-2013 | Distribution update | Detail |