1984] 
Dondale & Redner — Genus Pardosa 
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Pardosa saxatilis (Hentz) 
Figures 16, 19-21, 58, 59; Map 3 
Lycosa saxatilis Hentz, 1844:392, Figs. 9, 10 (pi. 18). Syntype females from “The 
mountains of North Alabama”, August, destroyed. Hentz 1875:34, Figs. 9, 10 
(pl. 4). 
Lycosa minima Keyserling, 1877:614, Fig. 3 (pl. 7). Holotype male from Peoria, 
Illinois, deposited in BM(NH), examined. Banks 1891:193. 
Pardosa albopatella Emerton, 1885:497, Fig. 2, 2 a, 2b (pl. 49). Four syntype males 
and 1 juvenile syntype male from New Haven, Connecticut, 20 May 1884 (J. H. 
Emerton), deposited in MCZ, examined; syntypes from Ipswich and Roxbury, 
Massachusetts (May and June), not found. Banks 1892:70. Barrows 1918:314. 
Pardosa annulata Banks, 1892:68, Fig. 41 (pl. 1). Two syntype females from Ithaca, 
New York, deposited in MCZ, examined. 
Pardosa minima : Banks 1895:91. Montgomery 1902:571, Figs. 35, 36 (pl. 30); 
1904:273. 
Pardosa saxatilis: Chamberlin 1908:174, Figs. 1, 2 (Pl. 13). Chickering 1933:517. 
Comstock 1940:661, Fig. 112d. Kaston 1948:335, Fig. 1104 (pl. 56), 1124, 1125 
(pl. 58), 1 139 (pl. 59); 1978: 191, Fig. 487 (part). Levi and Field 1954:456. Roewer 
1954:194 (part). Bonnet 1958:3420 (part). Wolff 1981:66, Figs. 10, 18. 
Pardosa platta Chamberlin and Ivie, 1942:31, Fig. 72 (pl. 7). Holotype female from 10 
mi. west of Grand Island, Hall Co., Nebraska, 6 June 1933 (W. Ivie), in AMNH, 
examined. Roewer 1954:194. Vogel 1967: 105. NEW SYNONYM. 
Male. Total length 4.24 ±0.40 mm; carapace 2.27 ±0.18 mm long 
and 1.71 ±0.14 mm wide (20 specimens). Carapace (Fig. 20) with 
dark orange or dark yellow median and submarginal areas, and with 
paired dark, indistinct, longitudinal bands flanking median area; 
margins pale or with series of dark spots. Sternum dark orange 
suffused with black. Chelicerae dark brown, streaked with black; 
retromargin usually (about 85%) with 2 teeth, more rarely with 3. 
Legs orange yellow; femur I dark. Abdomen dark orange mottled 
with brown and black mesally, darker laterally; venter dark orange 
brown. Terminal apophysis small, blunt; median apophysis long, 
slender, curved (Fig. 19); conductor sinuous along basal margin, 
with dark, shiny knob near tip (Fig. 21); patella covered dorsally 
with reflective white setae, and remaining palpal segments dark 
(Fig. 16). 
Female. Total length 4.48 ±0.38 mm; carapace 2.27 ±0.14 mm 
long and 1.75 ±0.14 mm wide (20 specimens). General color and 
structure as in male but pale areas on carapace more extensive and 
more distinct, femur I lacking dark area, rings on distal segments of 
legs more distinct, and retromargin of chelicera with 2 teeth in 
