Salticus unciger (Simon, 1868)
Description
Male
Male palp with short process next to tip of embolus. Tibial apophysis with a round tip.
Body length male: 4.0-5.0 mmFemale
Epigyne with ± triangular median region. Vulva with triangular receptaculum seminis. Entrance ducts situated on margin of epigyne.
Body length female: 5.0-6.0 mmAdditional information
northernmost occurrence in Tessin (CH)
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Pesarini unpubl.)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Prószyński 1991)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Thaler 1983c)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Thaler 1983c)
Pedipalp
(Thaler 1983c)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Metzner 1999)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Metzner 1999)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Hansen 1986)
Pedipalp with tibia, patella and femur, retrolateral view
(Hansen 1994)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Kulczyński 1907)
Pedipalp with tibia, patella and femur, retrolateral view
(Kulczyński 1907)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Schäfer 2021)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Schäfer 2021)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Schäfer 2021)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Schäfer 2021)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Schäfer 2021)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Schäfer 2021)
Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Kulczyński 1907)
Tibial apophysis
(Prószyński 1991)
Tibial apophysis
(Thaler 1983c)
Habitus
(Metzner 1999)
Epigyne
(Prószyński 1991)
Epigyne
(Kulczyński 1907)
Epigyne
(Schäfer 2021)
Vulva
(Prószyński 1991)
Vulva, ventral view
(Hansen 1994)
Distribution List
"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.
References
Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144 
Drakšić M, Katušić L (2011) Preliminary results on the spider (Araneae) fauna of NP Kornati (Croatia). Entomologia Croatica 15: 163-175
Hansen H (1986) Die Salticidae der coll. Canestrini (Arachnida: Araneae). Lavori della Società Veneziana di Scienze Naturali 11: 97-120
Hansen H (1994) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Biologie von Salticus unciger (Simon, 1868) und S. mutabilis Lucas, 1846 (Arachnida: Araneae: salticidae). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 43: 129-146
Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204
Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91
Kulczyński W (1907) Fragmenta arachnologica. VIII, IX. Bulletin International de l'Academie des Sciences de Cracovie 1907: 570-596
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12
Metzner H (1999) Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279
Pesarini C (unpubl.)
Pfliegler W A, Schönhofer A, Niedbała W, Vella P, Sciberras A, Vella A (2017) New records of mites (Acari) and harvestmen (Opiliones) from Malta with a preliminary checklist of Maltese Arachnida. Soil Organisms 89: 85-110
Prószyński J (1991) in Heimer S, Nentwig W: Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Parey Hamburg
Schäfer M (2021) Ein Beitrag zur Springspinnenfauna (Araneae: Salticidae) der griechischen Insel Korfu mit vier Erstnachweisen für die Insel und Anmerkungen zur Gattung Salticus. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 61: 84-97
Thaler K (1983c) Salticus unciger (Simon) und Synageles lepidus Kulczynski, zwei für die Schweiz neue Springspinnen. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 56: 295-301
WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2