Pardosa

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin pardus (“pard; male leopard”) +‎ Latin -ōsa (adjectival suffix, feminine nominalized). Modelled similarly to Lycosa, the type genus of wolf spiders. Coined by German entomologist and arachnologist Carl Ludwig Koch in 1847.

Proper noun

Pardosa f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Lycosidae – certain wolf spiders.

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