Pardosa giebeli ( Pavesi, 1873 )

Kronestedt, Torbjörn, Marusik, Yuri M. & Omelko, Mikhail M., 2014, Studies on species of Holarctic Pardosa groups (Araneae, Lycosidae). VIII. The Palearctic species of the Pardosa nigra group, Zootaxa 3894 (1), pp. 33-60 : 42

Pardosa giebeli ( Pavesi, 1873)

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Lycosa giebeli Pavesi, 1873: 164 , figs 7–9 (♂ ♀); Kulczyński 1916: 41 pl. 2 figs 68, 69 [sic], 72 (♂ ♀).

Pardosa giebeli: Tongiorgi 1966: 290 , figs 15–18 (♂ ♀); Kronestedt 2004: figs 4, 11, 16, 20, 27–28 (♂ ♀).

Type material. Syntypes ♂ and ♀ from Switzerland: Monte Fibbia and Valle di Fortunei (see Tongiorgi 1966) in Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova, Italy, not examined .

Material examined. SWITZERLAND. Uri: Gemstock , 5 September 1989 (P.T. Lehtinen, ZMUT), 2♀. For further material see Kronestedt (2004) .

Comments. The species was well described by Tongiorgi (1966).

Platnick (2014) cites Koch (1879) with records of P. giebeli from Siberia. The Siberian records are, however, based on misidentifications of P. eiseni ( Holm 1973, Koch’s material collected by the Swedish Expedition to Novaya Zemlya and Yenisey in 1875 listed under P. eiseni above). Pardosa giebeli is endemic to the European Alps ( Tongiorgi 1966).

Platnick (2014) erroneously lists ‘ Lycosa sordidata Dahl, 1908: 388 , 425, f. 86 (♂ ♀, misidentified)’ and ‘ Lycosa sordidata Dahl & Dahl 1927: 39 , f. 103–104 (♂ ♀)’ under P. giebeli . Dahl (1908) only had the holotype of Pardosa sordidata ( Thorell, 1875) , collected in Riesengebirge by H. Zimmermann, at hand as well as a male, which he believed to be conspecific, originating from Ayan in East Siberia. While the illustration of the female shows the epigyne of P. sordidata , the male palp belonged to some species in the Pardosa nigra group (protruding tegulum) occurring in Siberia, probably P. eiseni judging from the size of the tegular apophysis in Dahl’s figure (see above).

Habitat. Alpine species occurring at elevations between ca 2200–3400 m asl ( Thaler & Buchar 1996). A preferred alpine habitat is Loiseleuria procumbens stands with abundant stones ( Puntscher 1980; Thaler & Buchar 1996), also grass heaths with rock fragments ( Thaler 1997).

Distribution ( Fig. 128 ). This species is restricted to Europe and known from France, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria and Germany.

Figures

FIGURE 128. Distribution of Pardosa eiseni (black circles), P. giebeli (black blobs), P. lasciva (blue crosses), P. nigra (green triangles) and P. trailli (red triangles) in Europe. For open red triangle in the Faroe Islands see text under P. trailli.

FIGURES 1–8. Left male palp, retrolateral. 1, Pardosa eiseni. 2, P. fomichevi sp. n. 3, P. giebeli. 4, P. lasciva. 5, P. lyrata. 6, P. nigra. 7, P. paramushirensis. 8, P. trailli. Scale lines 0.2 mm.

FIGURES 9–16. Left male palp, prolateral. 9, Pardosa eiseni. 10, P. fomichevi sp. n. 11, P. giebeli. 12, P. lasciva. 13, P. lyrata. 14, P. nigra. 15, P. paramushirensis. 16, P. trailli. Scale lines 0.2 mm.

FIGURES 20–27. Bulbus of left male palp in ventral view. 20, Pardosa eiseni. 21, P. fomichevi sp. n. 22, P. giebeli. 23, P. lasciva. 24, P. lyrata. 25, P. nigra. 26, P. paramushirensis. 27, P. trailli. Scale lines 0.2 mm.

FIGURES 28–35. Bulbus of left male palp in oblique ventral-frontal view. 28, Pardosa eiseni. 29, P. fomichevi sp. n. 30, P. giebeli. 31, P. lasciva. 32, P. lyrata. 33, P. nigra. 34, P. paramushirensis. 35, P. trailli. Scale lines 0.2 mm.

FIGURES 36–43. Left male palp: tegulum with tegular apophysis. 36, Pardosa eiseni. 37, P. fomichevi sp. n. 38, P.giebeli. 39, P. lasciva. 40, P. lyrata. 41, P. nigra. 42, P. paramushirensis. 43, P. trailli. tg, tegulum; tg.ap, tegular apophysis. Scale line (applies to all) 300 µm.

FIGURES 44–58. Left male palp: embolus in frontal (44, 46, 48, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57) and ventral (45, 47, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58) view. 44–45, Pardosa eiseni. 46–47, P. fomichevi sp. n. 48, P. giebeli. 49–50, P. lasciva. 51–52, P. lyrata. 53–54, P. nigra. 55–56, P. paramushirensis. 57–58, P. trailli. Scale lines 0.2 mm.

FIGURES 98–113. Epigynes, cleared, in ventral (98, 100, 102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 112) and dorsal (99, 101, 103, 105, 107, 109, 111, 113) view. 98-99, Pardosa eiseni. 100–101, P. fomichevi sp. n. 102–103, P. giebeli. 104–105, P. lasciva. 106–107, P. lyrata. 108–109, P. nigra. 110–111, P. paramushirensis. 112–113, P. trailli. Scale lines 0.2 mm.