1984] 
Dondale & Redner — Genus Pardosa 
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apophysis, by the rounded basal margin of the conductor, and by 
the anteriorly broad median septum with paired ridges. 
Range. Utah south to Colima, Mexico. Included, but not mapped 
here, are the following: Utah: Monroe Canyon, 112° 10'W, 38°38'N. 
Nevada: Las Vegas. California: Seeley, 7 mi. west of El Centro; 
Indian Wells, Riverside Co. 
Natural History. Males have been collected in December to 
February, and June to September, females in January, March, June 
to September, and November. Females with egg sacs were collected 
in January, March, and May to July. 
Pardosa delicatula Gertsch and Wallace 
Figures 3, 6, 45-47; Map 1 
Pardosa pauxilla: Montgomery 1904:268 (part, not lectotype). 
Pardosa delicatula Gertsch and Wallace, 1935:4, Figs. 13, 17. 
Male holotype and female allotype from Edinburg, Hidalgo Co., Texas (Stanley 
Mulaik), deposited in AMNH, examined. Gertsch and Davis, 1940: 5. Roewer 
1954:189. Bonnet 1958:3365. 
Male. Total length 4.78 ±0.32 mm; carapace 2.59 ±0.15 mm long 
and 1.90 ±0.14 mm wide (20 specimens). Carapace with dark orange 
median and submarginal areas, and with pair of dark brown 
longitudinal bands flanking pale median area; margins dark, pale, 
or marked with series of 3 or 4 dark spots. Sternum orange yellow, 
sometimes suffused with black or with faint, V-shaped dark mark. 
Chelicerae variable in color; retromargin with 3 teeth. Legs yellow 
orange; femur I dark prolaterally at base. Abdomen dull yellow 
mesally, darker laterally, sometimes black throughout; venter pale. 
Terminal apophysis rather slender (ventral view); median apophysis 
short, broad, with large basal process, lacking hook at tip of distal 
process (Fig. 3); conductor with sharp, hooked point on ventral 
surface; embolus bent near tip (Fig. 6). 
Female. Total length 5.73 ±0.79; carapace 2.63 ±0.20 mm long 
and 2.02 ±0.23 mm wide (20 specimens). General color and 
structure as in male but carapace paler, usually having pale margins. 
Median septum strongly tapered anteriorly, lacking lateral ridges, 
convex along lateral margins of posterior part, partly concealed 
laterally by curved ridges (Fig. 46); copulatory tubes rather slender 
(Fig. 47). 
