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

Pardosa purbeckensis  F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895

Description

Prosoma length female: 2.9-3.2 mm, prosoma length male: 2.7-3.0 mm. Prosoma dark brown. Legs yellow-brown, I with projecting hairs. Femur only dorsally with dark, longish spots. Metatarsus vaguely spotted, III and IV ± annulated.

Body length male: 5.6 - 6.0 mm
Body length female: 5.9 - 7.3 mm
Additional information

Females hardly distinguishable from females of P. agrestis. Coastal species, probably also in humid and swampy areas.

Video: Courtship behaviour (Chiarle et al. 2013)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Turkey (Demir & Seyyar 2017, Danışman et al. 2019) not plausible, therefore deleted
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Western, Central Europe
Phenology
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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.

Belgium   (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Denmark   (no references) ||| France   (no references) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Ireland   (Lavery, 2019) ||| Netherlands   (no references) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
References

Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69 pdf

Chiarle A, Kronestedt T, Isaia M (2013) Courtship behavior in European species of the genus Pardosa (Araneae: Lycosidae). Journal of Arachnology 41: 108-125 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Demir H, Seyyar O (2017) Annotated checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Munis Entomology & Zoology 12: 433-469 pdf

Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212 pdf

Lecigne S (2018b) Récits de chasses aranéologiques récentes dans plusieurs départements de France. Redécouverte de Philodromus buchari Kubcová, 2004 (Araneae: Philodromidae) et confirmation de la présence de Theridion harmsi Wunderlich, 2011 (Araneae: Theridiidae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 33: 59-99 pdf

Locket G H, Millidge A F (1951) British spiders. Vol. I. Ray Society, London, 310 pp. pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Morka G H (unpubl.)

Tongiorgi P (1966a) Italian Wolf spiders of the genus Pardosa (Araneae: Lycosidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 134: 275-334 pdf

Wiebes J T (1959) The Lycosidae and Pisauridae (Araneae) of the Netherlands. Zoologische Verhandelingen 42: 1-78 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

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