Summary details for Pardosa palustris (Linnaeus, 1758)

Species Details

Species name: Pardosa palustris (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms: Pardosa tarsalis subsp. herbigrada, Pardosa palustris subsp. herbigrada (Linnaeus), Pardosa tarsalis, Lycosa herbigrada Blackwall, Pardosa exigua Blackwall, Lycosa tarsalis Thorell, 1856
Taxonomy: Animalia :: Araneae :: Lycosidae
habitat: short sward & bare ground

Distribution

The species is widespread in most of Britain. It is widespread in north-western and central Europe.

Habitat and ecology

P. palustris occurs on open sparsely vegetated and bare ground, in habitats including heathland, moorland, grasslands, flood meadows, arable land and waste ground. The species is noted as a successful aeronaut in Crocker & Daws (1996) and its preference for bare ground and success as an aeronaut may explain its colonisation of arable land and various other disturbed sites. Both sexes are adult in summer, occasionally into the autumn.

Status

Common. Original author of profile: P.R. Harvey Text based on Harvey, P.R., Nellist, D.R. & Telfer, M.G. (eds) 2002. Provisional atlas of British spiders (Arachnida, Araneae), Volumes 1 & 2. Huntingdon: Biological Records Centre.

Stats

First recorded: 1887
Last recorded: 2025
Total records: 6,714
Total visits: 6,435

Conservation status

Pardosa palustris

Source	Reporting category	Designation	Date designated	Comments
A Review of the scarce and threatened spiders (Araneae) of Great Britain: Species Status No. 22 (Sep 2017)	Red listing based on 2001 IUCN guidelines	Least concern	42979

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