Nearctic States & Provinces: AB MB NB ON YT NH
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/18688
Pardosa hyperborea (Thorell, 1872)
FAMILY: LYCOSIDAE Sundevall, 1833
Genus: Pardosa C. L. Koch, 1847
Species: Pardosa hyperborea (Thorell, 1872)
Author of this page: Pinzon, Jaime (Page complete and awaiting review)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
wolf spiders
Genus Common Name:
thinlegged wolf spiders
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: Holarctic
Nearctic States & Provinces:
AB MB NB ON YT NH
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
Natural History, Phenology & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:‡
ground runners
‡Feeding guild when noted defined by Uetz, G. W., J. Halaj, and A. B. Cady. 1999. Guild structure of spiders in major crops. Journal of Arachnology 27:270-280.
Recorded Habitats:
P. hyperborea like most Lycosid species, is a ground-dwelling species that usually prefers open areas, such as rocky hillsides or among lichens (Dondale & Redner, 1990), peatlands or sphagnum bogs (Nordstrom & Buckle, 2002), and is also common in burned areas (Buddle et al., 2000). It has also been found associated with low-lying spruce forests, lichens in arctic and alpine tundra, on needle mats in forests of jack pine, black spruce, and balsam fir.
Life & Natural History:
There is no information about the life cycle of this species, but it could be inferred from related species (Pickavance, 2001; Buddle, 2000), that P. hyperborea may have a two-year life span from hatching to maturity, overwintering the first time as immature and a second time as subadult, showing a superposition of different cohorts during the year. Mating should occur during June or July when both sexes are present, females with egg sacs have been reported in July and August (Dondale & Redner, 1990).
Seasonality of Specimen Records:
Image(s) of Habitus:
Credit: Pinzon, Jaime
Details About Males
Description:
Carapace narrow, light brown, with two longitudinal dark brown stripes that extend from the posterior end just to the anterior eye row. Clypeus same color as sides; longitudinal dorsal mid line light brown, less conspicuous near postero-median eyes. Mouthparts: Chelicerae yellowish, darker in the apex; labium and endites same color as chelicerae. Sternum dusky with a medial lighter patch. Coxae and femora light brown; patella, tibia, metatarsi and tarsi darker, tibia with three inconspicuous lighter rings. Abdomen dark brown with a longitudinal medial light band bordered by a non continuous black line on each side, venter of abdomen lighter. Palp: Terminal apophysis big, longer than wide, median apophysis small, with two projections, anterior projection short, posterior projections straight, directed backward, prominent.
Male Dimensions:
A+B = 4.94 mm
A = 2.49 mm
C = 1.71 mm
Image of External Male Genitalia:
Credit: Pinzon, Jaime
Details About Females
Description:
Coloration pattern similar as in males but bigger and lighter. Epigynum: Two well separated anterior hoods, median septum large, prominent and flat posteriorly, lateral plates angular, laying below septum.
Female Dimensions:
A+B = 5.16 mm
A = 2.5 mm
C = 1.71 mm
Image of Epigynum:
Credit: Pinzon, Jaime
Synonyms and Chresonyms†
| Lycosa hyperborea Thorell 1872 |
| Lycosa hyperborea pusilla Thorell 1872 |
| Pardosa hyperborea Thorell 1872 |
| Lycosa circumcincta Collett 1876 |
| Pardosa luteola Emerton 1894 |
| Lycosa pusilla Strand 1899 |
| Lycosa hyperborea pusilla Dahl 1908 |
| Pardosa distincta Chamberlin 1908 |
| Lycosa albimontis Strand 1909 |
| Lycosa hyperborea Fedotov 1912 |
| Lycosa hyperborea pusilla Dahl & Dahl 1927 |
| Lycosa hyperborea Jackson 1930 |
| Pardosa hyperborea Gertsch 1933 |
| Lycosa circumcincta Palmgren 1939 |
| Lycosa hyperborea Palmgren 1939 |
| Pardosa saltuaria hyperborea Tambs-Lyche 1940 |
| Lycosa hyperborea Holm 1947 |
| Pardosa circumcincta Roewer 1955 |
| Pardosa hyperborea pusilla Roewer 1955 |
| Lycosa saltuaria hyperborea Braendegaard 1958 |
| Pardosa hyperborea Holm 1967 |
| Pardosa hyperborea Buchar 1968 |
| Pardosa hyperborea pusilla Miller 1971 |
| Pardosa hyperborea Zyuzin 1979 |
| Pardosa hyperborea Kronestedt 1981 |
| Pardosa hyperborea Wunderlich 1984 |
| Pardosa hyperborea Dondale & Redner 1987 |
| Pardosa hyperborea Dondale & Redner 1990 |
| Pardosa hyperborea Heimer & Nentwig 1991 |
| Pardosa hyperborea Agnarsson 1996 |
| Pardosa hyperborea Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
| Pardosa hyperborea Vogel 2004 |
| Pardosa hyperborea Almquist 2005 |
Taxonomic References†
Agnarsson, I. 1996. Íslenskar köngulaer. Fjölrit Nàttùrufraedistofnunar 31: 1-175.
Almquist, S. 2005. Swedish Araneae, part 1: families Atypidae to Hahniidae (Linyphiidae excluded). Insect Syst. Ecol., Suppl. 62: 1-284.
Braendegaard, J. 1958. Araneida. In The Zoology of Iceland. Ejnar Munksgaard, Copenhagen 3(54): 1-113.
Buchar, J. 1968. Zur Lycosidenfauna Bulgariens (Arachn., Araneae). Vestn. csl. Spol. zool. 32: 116-130.
Chamberlin, R. V. 1908. Revision of North American spiders of the family Lycosidae. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 60: 158-318.
Collett, R. 1876. Oversigt af Norges Araneida. I. Saltigradae, Citigradae. Förh. Vid. Selsk. Christiana 1875: 225-259.
Dahl, F. 1908. Die Lycosiden oder Wolfsspinnen Deutschlands und ihre Stellung im Haushalt der Natur. Nach statistichen Untersuchungen dargestellt. Nov. Act. Acad. Caes. Leopold.-Carol. 88: 175-678.
Dahl, F. & M. Dahl. 1927. Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea. Lycosidae s. lat. (Wolfspinnen im weiteren Sinne). In Die Tierwelt Deutschlands. Jena, 5: 1-80.
Dondale, C. D. & J. H. Redner. 1990. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 17. The wolf spiders, nurseryweb spiders, and lynx spiders of Canada and Alaska, Araneae: Lycosidae, Pisauridae, and Oxyopidae. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1856: 1-383.
Dondale, C. D. & J. H. Redner. 1987. The atrata, cubana, ferruginea, moesta, monticola, saltuaria, and solituda groups of the spider genus Pardosa in North America (Araneae: Lycosidae). Can. Ent. 119: 1-19.
Emerton, J. H. 1894. Canadian spiders. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 9: 400-429.
Fedotov, D. 1912. K faounié Paoukow Mourmana i Nowo‹ Zemli. Contribution à la faune des araignées de la c“te Murmane et de Novaja Zemlja. Iejiegod. zool. Mouz. Akad. Naouk S. S.S.R. St. Petersb. 16: 449-474.
Gertsch, W. J. 1933. New genera and species of North American spiders. Amer. Mus. Novit. 636: 1-28.
Heimer, S. & W. Nentwig. 1991. Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Verlag Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp.
Holm, Å. 1967. Spiders (Araneae) from west Greenland. Meddr Grønland 184(1): 1-99.
Holm, Å. 1947. Svensk Spindelfauna III. Oxyopidae, Lycosidae, Pisauridae. Stockholm, pp. 1-48.
Jackson, A. R. 1930. Results of the Oxford University Expedition to Greenland, 1928. Araneae and opiliones collected by Major R. W. G. Hingston; with some notes on Icelandic spiders. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (10) 6: 639-656.
Kronestedt, T. 1981. Studies on species of Holarctic Pardosa groups (Araneae, Lycosidae), II. Redescriptions of Pardosa modica (Blackwall), Pardosa labradorensis (Thorell), and Pardosa sinistra (Thorell). Bull. Am. Mus. nat. Hist. 170: 111-125.
Miller, F. 1971. Pavouci-Araneida. Klíc zvíreny CSSR 4: 51-306.
Palmgren, P. 1939. Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands. I. Lycosidae. Acta Zool. Fennica 25: 1-86.
Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.
Roewer, C. F. 1955. Katalog der Araneen von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. Bruxelles, 2: 1-1751.
Strand, E. 1909. Neue oder wenig bekannte amerikanische Lycosiden, aus der Sammlung des vestorbenen Mr Thomas Workman. Zeitschr. Naturw. 81: 277-286.
Strand, E. 1899. Araneae Hallingdalliae. Beretning om Araneologiske Undersögelser i Hallingdal Sommeren 1898. Arch. Math. Naturw. Christiania 21(6): 1-68.
Tambs-Lyche, H. 1940. Die Norwegischen Spinnen der Gattung Pardosa Koch. Avh. Norske Vidensk.-Akad. Oslo 6: 1-59.
Thorell, T. 1872. Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. Part III. Upsala, pp. 229-374.
Vogel, B. R. 2004. A review of the spider genera Pardosa and Acantholycosa (Araneae, Lycosidae) of the 48 contiguous United States. J. Arachnol. 32: 55-108.
Wunderlich, J. 1984. Seltene und bisher unbekannte Wolfspinnen aus Mitteleuropa und Revision der Pardosa saltuaria-Gruppe (Arachnida: Araneae: Lycosidae). Verh. naturw. Ver. Hamb. 27: 417-442.
Zyuzin, A. A. 1979. A taxonomic study of Palearctic spiders of the genus Pardosa (Aranei, Lycosidae). Part 1. The taxonomic structure of the genus. Ent. Obozr. 58: 431-447.
†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/LYCOSIDAE.html
Natural History References
Buddle, C. M. 2000. Life history of Pardosa moesta and Pardosa mackenziana (Araneae, Lycosidae) in central Alberta, Canada. Journal of Arachnology 28: 319-328.
Buddle, C. M., J. R. Spence, and D. W. Langor. 2000. Successsion of boreal forest spider assemblages following wildfire and harvesting. Ecography 23: 424-436.
Dondale, C. D. & J. H. Redner. 1990. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 17. The wolf spiders, nurseryweb spiders, and lynx spiders of Canada and Alaska, Araneae: Lycosidae, Pisauridae, and Oxyopidae. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1856: 1-383.
Nordstrom, W. & D. Buckle. 2002. Spider records from four wildland parks in northeastern Alberta. Report prepared for: Alberta Natural Heritage Information Centre, Parks and Protected Areas Division, Alberta Community Development. 34 pp. Accessible at: http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/alberta_spiders/Nordstrom%20&%20Buckle%202002.pdf.
Pickavance, R. 2001. Life-cycles of four species of Pardosa (Araneae, Lycosidae) from the island of Newfoundland, Canada. Journal of Arachnology 29: 367-377.
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Pardosa C. L. Koch, 1847‡‡
P. agrestis (Westring, 1861) ...............Palearctic
P. albomaculata Emerton, 1885 ...............USA, Canada, Alaska, Greenland
P. algens (Kulczynski, 1908) ...............Canada, Alaska, Russia
P. altamontis Chamberlin & Ivie, 1946 ...............USA, Canada
P. anomala Gertsch, 1933 ...............USA, Canada
P. atlantica Emerton, 1913 ...............USA
P. atrata (Thorell, 1873) ...............Palearctic
P. bellona Banks, 1898 ...............USA, Mexico
P. beringiana Dondale & Redner, 1987 ...............Canada, Alaska
P. bifasciata (C. L. Koch, 1834) ...............Palearctic
P. blanda (C. L. Koch, 1833) ...............Palearctic
P. bucklei Kronestedt, 1975 ...............USA, Canada
P. californica Keyserling, 1887 ...............USA, Mexico
P. coloradensis Banks, 1894 ...............USA, Canada, Alaska
P. concinna (Thorell, 1877) ...............USA, Canada
P. confusa Kronestedt, 1988 ...............USA
P. crassistyla Kronestedt, 1988 ...............USA
P. delicatula Gertsch & Wallace, 1935 ...............USA, Mexico
P. distincta (Blackwall, 1846) ...............USA, Canada
P. diuturna Fox, 1937 ...............Canada, Alaska
P. dorsalis Banks, 1894 ...............USA, Canada
P. dorsuncata Lowrie & Dondale, 1981 ...............USA, Canada, Alaska
P. dromaea (Thorell, 1878) ...............USA, Canada
P. eiseni (Thorell, 1875) ...............Palearctic
P. falcifera F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1902 ...............USA to Costa Rica
P. ferruginea (L. Koch, 1870) ...............Palearctic
P. floridana (Banks, 1896) ...............USA, Cuba
P. fulvipes (Collett, 1876) ...............Palearctic
P. furcifera (Thorell, 1875) ...............Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Iceland
P. fuscula (Thorell, 1875) ...............USA, Canada, Alaska
P. glacialis (Thorell, 1872) ...............Holarctic
P. gothicana Lowrie & Dondale, 1981 ...............USA
P. groenlandica (Thorell, 1872) ...............USA, Canada, Alaska, Greenland
P. hetchi Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 ...............USA
P. hortensis (Thorell, 1872) ...............Palearctic
P. josemitensis (Strand, 1908) ...............USA
P. knappi Dondale, 2007 ...............USA
P. labradorensis (Thorell, 1875) ...............USA, Canada
P. lapidicina Emerton, 1885 ...............USA, Canada
P. lapponica (Thorell, 1872) ...............Holarctic
P. lasciva L. Koch, 1879 ...............Palearctic
P. littoralis Banks, 1896 ...............USA, Canada, Cuba
P. lowriei Kronestedt, 1975 ...............USA, Canada, Alaska
P. luctinosa Simon, 1876 ...............Palearctic
P. lugubris (Walckenaer, 1802) ...............Palearctic
P. mackenziana (Keyserling, 1877) ...............USA, Canada, Alaska
P. mercurialis Montgomery, 1904 ...............USA
P. metlakatla Emerton, 1917 ...............USA, Canada, Alaska
P. milvina (Hentz, 1844) ...............USA, Canada
P. mixta (Kulczynski, 1887) ...............Palearctic
P. modica (Blackwall, 1846) ...............USA, Canada
P. moesta Banks, 1892 ...............USA, Canada, Alaska
P. montgomeryi Gertsch, 1934 ...............USA, Mexico
P. monticola (Clerck, 1757) ...............Palearctic
P. mulaiki Gertsch, 1934 ...............USA, Canada
P. nebulosa (Thorell, 1872) ...............Palearctic
P. nigra (C. L. Koch, 1834) ...............Palearctic
P. nordicolens Chamberlin & Ivie, 1947 ...............Canada, Alaska, Russia
P. ontariensis Gertsch, 1933 ...............USA, Canada
P. orophila Gertsch, 1933 ...............USA, Mexico
P. orthodox Chamberlin, 1924 ...............USA, Mexico
P. ourayensis Gertsch, 1933 ...............USA
P. paludicola (Clerck, 1757) ...............Palearctic
P. palustris (Linnaeus, 1758) ...............Holarctic
P. palustris islandica (Strand, 1906) ...............Iceland
P. parvula Banks, 1904 ...............USA
P. pauxilla Montgomery, 1904 ...............USA
P. pedia Dondale, 2007 ...............Canada
P. plumipes (Thorell, 1875) ...............Palearctic
P. podhorskii (Kulczynski, 1907) ...............Canada, Alaska, Russia
P. prosaica Chamberlin & Ivie, 1947 ...............Russia, Alaska, Canada
P. proxima (C. L. Koch, 1847) ...............Palearctic, Canary Is., Azores
P. rainieriana Lowrie & Dondale, 1981 ...............USA, Canada
P. ramulosa (McCook, 1894) ...............USA, Mexico
P. riparia (C. L. Koch, 1833) ...............Palearctic
P. saltonia Dondale & Redner, 1984 ...............USA, Mexico
P. saxatilis (Hentz, 1844) ...............USA, Canada
P. schenkeli Lessert, 1904 ...............Palearctic
P. septentrionalis (Westring, 1861) ...............Northern Palearctic
P. sierra Banks, 1898 ...............USA, Mexico
P. sinistra (Thorell, 1877) ...............USA, Canada
P. sodalis Holm, 1970 ...............Canada, Alaska, Russia
P. sordidata (Thorell, 1875) ...............Palearctic
P. sternalis (Thorell, 1877) ...............North America
P. steva Lowrie & Gertsch, 1955 ...............North America
P. tatarica (Thorell, 1875) ...............Palearctic
P. tesquorum (Odenwall, 1901) ...............Russia, Mongolia, China, USA, Canada, Alaska
P. tetonensis Gertsch, 1933 ...............USA
P. tristis (Thorell, 1877) ...............USA, Canada
P. tuoba Chamberlin, 1919 ...............USA
P. uintana Gertsch, 1933 ...............USA, Canada, Alaska
P. uncata (Thorell, 1877) ...............USA
P. utahensis Chamberlin, 1919 ...............USA
P. vadosa Barnes, 1959 ...............USA, Mexico
P. valens Barnes, 1959 ...............USA, Mexico
P. vancouveri Emerton, 1917 ...............USA, Canada
P. vogelae Kronestedt, 1993 ...............USA
P. wagleri (Hahn, 1822) ...............Palearctic
P. wasatchensis Gertsch, 1933 ...............USA
P. wyuta Gertsch, 1934 ...............USA, Canada
P. xerampelina (Keyserling, 1877) ...............USA, Canada, Alaska
P. xerophila Vogel, 1964 ...............USA, Mexico
P. yavapa Chamberlin, 1925 ...............USA
P. zionis Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 ...............USA
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution
Page Reference:
Pinzon, Jaime. submitted. Taxonomic and natural history description of FAM: LYCOSIDAE, Pardosa hyperborea (Thorell, 1872).
In: The Nearctic Spider Database. David P. Shorthouse (editor). World Wide Web electronic publication. Direct link: http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/18688 (Accessed: 10/12/2008 6:07:20 AM).
Author Email Address: jpinzon@ualberta.ca
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