THE ATRATA , CUBANA , FERRUGINEA , MOESTA , MONTICOLA , SALTUARIA , AND SOLITUDA GROUPS OF THE SPIDER GENUS PARDOSA IN NORTH AMERICA (ARANEAE: LYCOSIDAE)

• Published in: The Canadian Entomologist
• Main Authors: Dondale, C. D., Redner, J.H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1987
• Subjects: Insect Science; Molecular Biology; Physiology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Structural Biology; Bryant; Yukon; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/ent1191-1; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0008347X0004548X

Abstract The North American representatives of seven species groups in the genus Pardosa are reviewed and are found to have the following distribution: (1) the atrata group, represented by the widespread nearctic species P . fuscula (Thorell), which may or may not be conspecific with P . atrata (Thorell) of the Palaearctic; (2) the cubana group, represented by P . cubana Bryant of the Caribbean area; (3) the ferruginea group, represented by P . beringiana sp.n . from Alaska and Yukon Territory; (4) the moesta group, represented by the widespread nearctic P . moesta Banks; (5) the monticola group, represented by the holarctic P . palustris (Linnaeus); (6) the saltuaria group, represented by the holarctic P . hyperborea (Thorell) and the nearctic P . californica Keyserling; (7) the solituda group, represented by the nearctic P . solituda Levi and Levi, found only in the high Rockies.