1984] 
Dondale & Redner — Genus Pardosa 
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pale or with dark spots. Sternum dark orange suffused with black. 
Chelicerae dark brown, streaked with black; retromargin usually 
(about 67%) with 3 teeth. Legs orange yellow; femur I dark basally. 
Abdomen dark orange mottled with brown and black mesally, 
darker laterally; venter dark orange brown. Terminal apophysis 
small, blunt; median apophysis long, slender, curved; conductor 
sinuous along basal margin, with dark, shiny knob near tip; patella, 
tibia, and small basal area of cymbium covered dorsally with 
reflective white setae, and remaining palpal segments dark (Fig. 17). 
Female. Total length 4.03 ±0.50 mm; carapace 1.94 ±0.20 mm 
long and 1.48 ±0.19 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, dark rings on distal 
segments of legs more distinct, and retromargin of chelicera with 3 
teeth in 75% of specimens. Median septum extending anteriad 
approximately one-half length of epigynum; hood continuing 
posteriad at sides where it defines a raised, tapered, median area; 
copulatory tubes short, slender, with distinct lateral swellings. 
Diagnosis. Males of P. atlantica most resemble those of P. 
saxatilis and P. parvula but differ in having a dorsal cover of 
reflective white setae on the patella, tibia, and small basal area of the 
cymbium of the palpus. Females are not distinguishable from those 
of saxatilis or parvula except geographically (see map 3). 
Range. Eastern Oklahoma and eastern Texas to Long Island, New 
York and Connecticut. The range may extend westward to Kansas, 
but the westernmost records are based on females, which we are at 
present unable to distinguish on anatomical characters. 
Natural History. Males have been collected from February to 
August, and females from April to August. Females with egg sacs 
were collected from June to August. The few specimens for which 
habitat data are available were found in pine or pine-oak forests or 
at the edge of mixed deciduous forests. One specimen was found in a 
one-year abandoned field, and Howell and Pienkowski (1971) 
recorded the species from alfalfa at Blacksburg, Virginia. Emerton’s 
(1913) type series was collected on “low sandy ground”. Chamberlin 
and Ivie (1944) found atlantica “in company with "parvula (reported 
as saxatilis) near Sylvania, Georgia. 
