World Spider Catalog

Genus: Pardosa C. L. Koch, 1847 | Family: Lycosidae Sundevall, 1833

Pardosa sepidehae Akpınar & Dolejš, 2026

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:067422

ZooBank: 2892A3F4-62C5-40CE-B996-DB06A5D75F99

Permalink: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:067422

Described:

Distribution: Turkey, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Azerbaijan

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Zoology Museum of Gaziantep University (GAUNZM), Turkey f (LYP001) - (Akpınar & Dolejš, 2026)
Allotype: Zoology Museum of Gaziantep University (GAUNZM), Turkey m (LYP003) - (Akpınar & Dolejš, 2026)
Paratype: Zoology Museum of Gaziantep University (GAUNZM), Turkey 1f (LYP002) - (Akpınar & Dolejš, 2026)
Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 10m 4f (7353, 7443, 7533, 7538) - (Akpınar & Dolejš, 2026)
Paratype: National Museum – Natural History Museum, Praha (NMP), Czech Republic 1m (P6A-7390) - (Akpınar & Dolejš, 2026)

Taxonomic References

Pardosa aenigmatica Demircan & Topçu, 2011: 136, f. 3f-g (f; misidentified per Akpınar & Dolejš, 2026: 2)

Pardosa aenigmatica Zamani, 2015: 13, f. 2A-C (f; misidentified per Akpınar & Dolejš, 2026: 2)

Pardosa aenigmatica Zonstein, Marusik & Omelko, 2015: 377, f. 2g (f; misidentified per Akpınar & Dolejš, 2026: 2)

Pardosa aenigmatica Fomichev, Marusik & Koponen, 2018: 333, f. 3a-d (f; misidentified per Akpınar & Dolejš, 2026: 2)

Pardosa sepidehae Akpınar & Dolejš, 2026: 2, f. 1C-J, 2D-F, H-M, 3B-C, 4D-F (Dmf) Original description

References

Akpınar, A. & Dolejš, P. (2026). An overlooked species of enigmatic wolf spider (Araneae: Lycosidae) clarifies the mysterious distribution of its sibling. Annales Zoologici 76(29): 1-9. doi: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2026.76.29.29 ZooBank: 57F93428-006C-47CB-A895-4FC951F3EB75 -- Show included taxa

Demircan, N. & Topçu, A. (2011). New records of family Lycosidae (Araneae) in Turkey. Serket 12: 135-140. -- Show included taxa

Fomichev, A. A., Marusik, Y. M. & Koponen, S. (2018). New data on spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Iraq. Zoology in the Middle East 64(4): 329-339. doi: 10.1080/09397140.2018.1484018 -- Show included taxa

Zamani, A. (2015). The spider collection (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Zoological Museum of the Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, with new species records for Iran. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 50: 11-18. doi: 10.5431/aramit5002 -- Show included taxa

Zonstein, S. L., Marusik, Y. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2015). A survey of spider taxa new to Israel (Arachnida: Araneae). Zoology in the Middle East 61(4): 372-385. doi: 10.1080/09397140.2015.1095525 -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-10-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Akpınar & Dolejš, 2026
2026-10-13	New species inserted	Akpınar & Dolejš, 2026