Pardosa saltans
Local name: Pardose forestière
Overview
A detailed profile for this species is sourced from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as assessments become available.
Pardosa saltans faces significant pressure from forest habitat degradation and fragmentation across its European range. Urban expansion and intensive forestry practices have reduced the quality of woodland floor microhabitats essential for this ground-dwelling wolf spider. Climate change poses additional stress through altered moisture regimes in forest understories, affecting prey availability and reproductive success.
Habitat
This wolf spider inhabits deciduous and mixed forest floors, particularly favoring areas with dense leaf litter and fallen logs that provide shelter and hunting grounds. It requires stable moisture levels and complex ground-layer vegetation structure typical of mature woodland ecosystems.
Other threatened species in Lycosidae
Threatened in Austria
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