Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Talavera  G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1909   12 species

Talavera aperta (Miller, 1971)

Description

Embolus robust, dorsally bent. Epigyne with round receptaculum seminis. Prosoma brown to black-brown, eye region bright haired. Sternum yellow-brown. Chelicerae yellow-brown. Legs light brown, annulated with brown. Femur dark brown. Opisthosoma light brown, with reticulate pattern, or grey-brown. Colour of female slightly brighter.

Body length male: 2.1-2.5 mm
Body length female: 2.5-2.8 mm
Additional information

In dry habitats, e.g. quarries, steppes and cultivated land

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Europe to Central Asia
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Distribution List
Austria   (Roth, 1999) ||| Belgium   (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Bulgaria   (Naumova & Genchev, 2022) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Hungary   (Korányi et al., 2017) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Luxembourg   (Kreuels et al., 2019) ||| Netherlands   (Vogels, 2019) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka et al., 2016b) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Russia, Central   (Kuzmin & Azarkina, 2016) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev et al., 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Serbia   (Grbić et al., 2015) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Logunov, 2015) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019; Hirna et al., 2015) |||
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