1984] 
Dondale & Redner — Genus Pardosa 
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Pardosa hamifera F. Pickard-Cambridge 
Figures 4, 7, 48, 49; Map 1 
Pardosa hamifera F. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902:320, Fig. 4, 4a (pi. 31). Holotype 
male from Guatemala (Sarg), deposited in BM(NH), examined. Roewer 
1954:187. Bonnet 1958:3373. 
Pardosa delicata Gertsch, 1934:20. Holotype female from La Zacualpa, Chiapas, 
Mexico, August 1909 (A. Petrunkevitch), deposited in AMNH, examined. 
Allotype male and paratype female from the type locality, with same data as for 
holotype, not examined. Gertsch and Wallace 1935:3, Fig. 18. Roewer 1954:186. 
Bonnet 1958:3365. NEW SYNONYM. 
Male. Total length 4.54 ±0.38 mm; carapace 2.36 ±0.18 mm long 
and 1.83 ±0. 14 mm wide (20 specimens). Carapace with dark orange 
brown median and submarginal areas, and with dark longitudinal 
bands flanking median area; lateral margins usually pale. Sternum 
dark orange, sometimes paler or darker mesally. Chelicerae variable 
in color; retromargin with 3 teeth. Legs dark orange; femur I often 
dark at base. Abdomen black with dull yellow heart mark, or yellow 
brown mesally and darker laterally; venter pale, sometimes suffused 
with black. Terminal apophysis slender (ventral view); median 
apophysis short, broad, with large basal process, lacking hook at tip 
of distal process (Fig. 4); conductor angled on basal margin (Fig. 7). 
Female. Total length 5.10 ±0.48 mm; carapace 2.45 ±0.22 mm 
long and 1.95 ±0.19 mm wide (20 specimens). General color and 
structure as in male but paler. Median septum slender anteriorly, 
lacking lateral ridges, concave at lateral margins of expanded 
posterior part (Fig. 48); copulatory tubes rather thick throughout, 
with ventral swelling (Fig. 49). 
Diagnosis. Specimens of P. hamifera most resemble those of P. 
bellona and P. delicatula but differ in having an angular basal 
margin on the conductor, a gently curved embolus (as in bellona but 
not as in delicatula ), and in having a slender anterior part and fully 
exposed posterior part of the median septum. 
Range. Nuevo Leon south to Honduras; Jamaica, Haiti. 
Natural History. Males have been collected in Feburary, March, 
June, and August to December, females in all months except April 
and September. Habitat is unrecorded. 
