Arachnids of North Carolina
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Pardosa littoralis Banks, 1896 - a thinlegged wolf spider

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Taxonomy
Order: ARANEAEInfraorder: ARANEOMORPHAEFamily: LYCOSIDAE                                                                                 
Identification
Online Description/Photos: BugGuide Google, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, GBIF
Distribution in North Carolina
Comments: Texas to Florida, northward near the coast to the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia; Cuba.
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Pardosa littoralis
Adult phenology:
 High Mountains (HM) ≥ 4,000 ft.
 Low Mountains (LM) < 4,000 ft.
 Piedmont (Pd)
 Coastal Plain (CP)

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Habitats and Life History
Habitats: In general it is an inhabitant of salt marshes, though Florida records include beaches, lake shores, pine-oak forests, and swamps. One specimen was collected in a soybean field. Muma (1973) trapped many in pine flatwoods, and lesser numbers in a sand-pine dune or in citrus groves
Observation Methods:
Abundance/Frequency: Both sexes of P. littoralis have been collected in every month in the southern part of its range, and egg sacs were observed in April, June to August, and December
Behavior: Courtship behavior was described (under the name banksi) by
Kaston (1936). The present authors observed adults running on a
salt marsh in Nova Scotia on a warm day at the end of May, 1980.
Males and females were seen on or under the mat of dry marsh
grasses, particularly at the water's edge where the mud was wet from
the previous tide. If overtaken by a wave they either ran on its
surface or climbed emergent plant stems
Status in North Carolina
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