During the post-colloquium excursion of the 18th European Colloquium of Arachnology in Slovakia in July 1999, I had the opportunity to collect a small material of wolf spiders at the boundary of the Slovak Paradise National Park c. 20 km south of Poprad. Except for two common species [Pardosa palustris (UNNAEUS) and P. pullata (CLERCK)], numerous females of Pardosa fulvipes (COLLETT) were taken. An additional specimen of the latter was captured at Stara Lesna close to the High Tatras National Park. P. fulvipes was not included in the catalogue of spider species recorded from Slovakia (GAJDOS et al. 1999) though it may previously have been overlooked due to misidentification with some other species in the pullata group

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Arachnol. Mitt. 18:71-76  Kurzmitleilung  Basel, Dezember 1999 Torbjorn  KRONESTEDT:  Pardosa  fulvipes  (Araneae, Lycosidae) new to Slovakia During the post-colloquium excursion of  the 18th European Colloquium of Arachnology in Slovakia in July 1999, I had the opportunity to collect a small material of wolf spiders at the boundary of the Slovak Paradise National Park c. 20 km south of Poprad. Except for two common species [Pardosa palustris (UNNAEUS) and P.  pullata (CLERCK)], numerous females of Pardosa fulvipes (COLLETT) were taken. An additional specimen of the latter was captured at Stara Lesna close to the High Tatras National Park. P.  fulvipes was not included in the catalogue of spider species recorded from Slovakia (GAJDOS et al. 1999) though it may previously have been overlooked due to misidentification with some other species in the pullata group. SOMATIC CHARACTERS Pardosa fulvipes is of about the same body size as its allies P. prativaga (L.  KOCH) and  P.  sphagnicola  (F.  DAHL) (i.  e.  4-6 mm)  and  can  be distinguished from them by the following somatic characteristics (for more details,  incl.  copulatory  organs,  of all  three  species,  see  HOLM  & KRONESTEDT 1970; all three also included and illustrated in ROBERTS 1995): 0': - Book lung covers dark-coloured, devoid of hairs (Fig. 1). - Carapace more or less dark brownish (black in fresh material), shining, with  very short  pubescence  (also  in  eye region)  (median  band indistinct and lateral bands continuous). - Legs contrastingly light yellowish. First metatarsi and tarsi thickened (compared with those of the other legs) and densely equipped with long, thin light hairs (metatarsi prolaterally and retrolateroventrally) (Fig. 2). Spines of first (Fig. 3) legs more or less reduced. 71 Tibiae I (Fig. 3) and  11  slightly curved. Fourth coxae with denticulated hairs (a few also on fourth trochanters) (Fig. 1). - Palp brownish (black in fresh material), patella with only short hairs and a distinct dorsal concavity (Fig. 4). ~: - Book lung covers usually somewhat dark-coloured, devoid of hairs. - Legs: --Younger females: legs yellowish brown with indistinct brownish markings (sometimes more or less concolorous light brown to greyish yellow). - - Older females: leg femora ventrally and latero-ventrally blackish except distally (cf. Figs. 5-6), other markings somewhat  more contrasting than in younger females. Femur I prolaterally patterned as in Fig. 5. - Egg  sac usually comparatively dark, with  a greenish-blue tinge (fresh material). The book lung covers are without hairs (unique condition) also in the pre-adult stages (KRONESTEDT 1973), enabling a  species-specific identification of  juveniles in this species. The surface of  the cover cuticle in the adults is speCifically striated. In the adult male the book lung covers form one part of a stridulatory apparatus, the other part being the uniquely denticulated, stout hairs retrolaterally on the fourth coxae and trochanters (KRONESTEDT 1973). During courtship display (KRONESTEDT 1979), the male performs vertical movements ofthe abdomen, enabling the surface of  the lung covers to rub against the denticulated hairs. HABITAT According to HOLM & KRONESTEDT (1970) Pardosa fulvipes has been found on arable land (Iey, cereals, rape), other kinds of  open grassland and shore meadows in Sweden. From Finland it was reported from arable land (Iey)  (HUHTA & RAATIKAINEN  1974),  oat field  and  adjacent meadow (ITAMIES & RUOTSALAINEN 1985), and sandy beach, meadow by sandy beach  as  well  as  cultivated fields  (LEHTINEN  et al.  1979). VILBASTE (a. o. 1980) found it also on mires (fens and bogs).  THALER & BUCHAR (1996) reported itfrom a mown meadow with a small brook at 1100 ma.s.1. near Innsbruck and  assumed  that this  species  might be  stenotopic on meadows at brooks. The specimens here reported from the Slovak Paradise N. P. were found in a site with mown grass fields and adjacent higher herbl grass vegetation. 72 Figs. 1-2: Pardosa fulvipes (COLLETT). - 1. Adult male, part of right leg IV and  abdomen,  showing  position  of  stridulatory  apparatus  (from KRONESTEDT 1973). - 2. Adult male, left metatarsus and tarsus of leg I in dorsal view. Scale bars 1 mm. 73 3  4 -'" t J C----: ~--5  6 Figs.  3-6:  Pardosa fulvipes  (COLLETT). - 3.  Adult male,  right leg  I in prolateral view.  - 4. Adult male, left patella and tibia of palp in retrolateral view. - 5. Adultfemale (from Slovakia), leg I of  an old adult in prolateral view. - 6. Ditto, same leg in retrolateral view. Scale bars 1 mm. 74 DISTRIBUTION The identity of  Pardosa fulvipeswas elucidated by HOLM & KRONESTEDT (1970). By then, the species was known with certainty only from Norway, Sweden, and a single locality in Austria. It has since been found in Estonia (several papers,  see VILBASTE  1987) and  Finland  (firstly recorded  in HUHTA & RAATIKAINEN 1974). P. fulvipes also has a wide distribution in Russia, being found  far into Siberia,  and also occurring in  Kazakhstan (MIKHAILOV 1997). In  Central  Europe,  P.  fulvipes  was  for  long  known  only  from  the Semmering  Pass  in  Austria  (type  locality  for  Pardosa  montivaga KULCZYNSKI,  junior synonym).  It was  rather  recently  recorded  from southern Bavaria (Murnauer Moos) in Germany (LOSER et al. 1982) and other recent finds from Central Europe come  from some scattered localities above 700 m in Austria (THALER & BUCHAR 1996). P. fulvipes is missing from the checklist of  spider species in the Czech Republic (BUCHAR et al. 1995, BUCHAR 1997, up-to-date version available at: http://www.butbn.cas.cz/ klimes/arachno/).  Its  mentioning  in  the  corresponding  list  for  Poland (PR6SZYNSKI &  STAR~GA  1997) is, however, based on a misidentification (KUPRY  JANOWICZ in litt.). Material: SLOVAKIA, Slovensky raj: Podlesok, C. 550 m a.s.l., mown grassland and tall herb/ grass vegetation at River Velka Biela Voda,  17.VII.1999, 18 ~~; Vysoke Tatry: Stara Lesna,  herb/grass  vegetation  near  Hotel  Academia,  16.VII.1999,  1~ (all  leg.  T. KRONESTEDT). Illustrations of characters in the male sex made from Swedish material. Acknowledgement: I am much obliged to Ms. Elizabeth Binkiewicz, Swedish Museum of Natural  History,  for the  drawings.  I also thank  Dr.  Janusz Kupryjanowicz,  University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland, for information about the record from Poland. 75 REFERENCES BUCHAR. J., V. RUZICKA & A.  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Pardosa fulvipes (Araneae, Lycosidae) new to Slovakia

Pardosa fulvipes (Araneae, Lycosidae) new to Slovakia

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