Pardosa proxima (C. L. Koch, 1847)

Alioua, Youcef & Bosmans, Robert, 2024, Spiders of arid lands: The Ghardaïa region (Northern Sahara) with seven new records for Algeria, Zootaxa 5497 (3), pp. 301-336 : 316

Pardosa proxima (C. L. Koch, 1847)

Pardosa proxima ; Simon 1899: 85; Denis 1937b: 1053; Abrous-Kherbouche et al. 1997: 79; Bouseksou et al. 2015: 260; Touchi et al. 2018: 277; Boucherit et al. 2020: 63.

Material examined: BERRIANE: Balouh, hand collecting, 1 ♂, 4.II.2021; 7 ♂, 8 ♀, 12.II.2021; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 16.II.2021; 1 ♂, 2 ♀, 19.II.2021; 1 ♀, 26.II.2021; 1 ♀, 5.III.2021; 1 ♀, 19.III.2021; 2 ♂, 4 ♀, 5.III.2021; 1 ♂, 12.III.2021; 1 ♂, 4 ♀, 26.III.2021; 1 ♂, 7 ♀, 3.IV.2021; 9 ♂, 6 ♀, 10.IV.2021; 7 ♂, 9 ♀, 17.IV.2021; 12 ♂, 13 ♀, 24.IV.2021; 1 ♂, 8 ♀, 26.IV.2021; 11 ♂, 7 ♀, 30.IV.2021, pitfall traps, 4 ♀, 12.II.2021; 2 ♂, 5 ♀, 19.II.2021; 2 ♂, 26.II.2021; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 5.III.2021; 1 ♂, 12.III.2021; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 26.III.2021; 3 ♀, 3.IV.2021; 3 ♂, 10.IV.2021; 1 ♂, 2 ♀, 17.IV.2021; 1 ♀, 24.IV.2021. Sidi Mbarek , hand collecting , 4 ♂, 7 ♀, 6.II.2021; 1 ♂, 18.II.2021; 1 ♂, 2 ♀, 25.II.2021; 1 ♂, 2 ♀, 4.III.2021; 1 ♂, 2 ♀, 18.III.2021; 1 ♂, 3 ♀, 2.IV.2021, pitfall traps, 1 ♀, 18.II.2021; 1 ♀, 11.III.2021; 1 ♀, 25.III.2021; 2 ♀, 2.IV.2021; 1 ♂, 9.IV.2021; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 16.IV.2021; 1 ♂, 23.IV.2021. DHAYET BENDHAHOUA: Grazil , hand collecting , 1 ♂, 5.I.2022; 1 ♀, 25.II.2022. EL ATTEUF: Palm grove of El Atteuf, hand collecting , 2 ♀, 6.III.2015; 2 ♀, 15.III.2015; 1 ♀, 5.IV.2015, pitfall traps, 2 ♀, 6.III.2015; 1 ♀, 6.III.2015; 4 ♀, 25.III.2015.

Previous records in Algeria: Aïn Defla, Alger, Blida, Mila, Tizi Ouzou ( Simon 1899; Denis 1937b, Abrous-Kherbouche et al. 1997; Bouseksou et al. 2015; Touchi et al. 2018; Boucherit et al. 2020).

Distribution: Macaronesia, northern Africa, Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia, China ( World Spider Catalog 2024).