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

Pardosa schenkeli  Lessert, 1904

Description

Male palp with tegular apophysis appearing as round lamella in ventral view, with robust tooth in the middle. Epigyne with 2 anterior pockets, median septum long and wavy. Vulva with at least 2 times twisted entrance duct. Prosoma dark brown. Legs yellowish-brown. Femur laterally striped with black. Opisthosoma black-brown, with white haired cardiac mark, black margined, one yellow band on each side, touching each other anterior of spinnerets.

Body length male: 4.1 mm
Body length female: 4.5 mm
Additional information

Predominantly in the mountains between 1500 and 2500 m. Rarely found.

Video:

Courtship behaviour (Chiarle et al. 2013)

Frequency: Rarely found

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, China
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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.

Austria   (no references) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| France   (no references) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Lithuania   (no references) ||| Moldova   (Vasiliev & Mikhailov, 2023) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Romania   (no references) ||| Russia, Central   (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Northern   (no references) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) ||| Russia, Western   (no references) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2006) ||| Switzerland   (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024a) |||
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

Azheganova N S (1968) Kratkii opredelitel' paukov (Aranei) lesnoi i lesostepnoi zony SSSR. Akademia Nauk SSSR, 149pp. 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 (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Fjellberg A (unpubl.)

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm pdf

Kronestedt T (2006) On Pardosa schenkeli (Araneae, Lycosidae) and its presence in Germany and Poland. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 32: 31-37 pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Oger P, Miquet A (2017) Découverte en Savoie de deux espèces nouvelles pour la France (Araneae: Linyphiidae, Lycosidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 4: 5-8 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html pdf

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

Vasiliev A I, Mikhailov K G (2023) Annotated checklist of spiders (Araneae) of the Republic of Moldova. Invertebrate Zoology 20: 307-342 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

Updates
17-07-2020 Distribution update Detail
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