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

Talavera milleri (Brignoli, 1983)

Description
Male

Palp: femur black, remaining segments dirty-yellow, base of cymbium with long white hairs. Prosoma yellow, with a thin black stripe, cephalic region with orange scales. Chelicerae yellow. Legs yellow with broad black rings. Femora, patellae and tibiae of anterior legs black, with a blue metallic lustre.

Body length male: 1.7-1.9 mm
Female

Prosoma brown, with radially arranged spots, with a yellow stripe laterally, region behind cephalic part and prosoma margin black. Pedipalp: trochanter and femur black, remaining segments yellowish white.

Body length female: 2.1 mm
Additional information

In xerotherm grassy communities.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Germany, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania
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Distribution List
Austria   (Milasowszky et al., 2015) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Hungary   (Szinetár et al., 2012) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019; Logunov, 2015) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) |||
References

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Chvátalová I, Buchar J (2002) Distribution and habitat of Talavera aperta, T. milleri and T. thorelli in the Czech Republic (Araneae: Salticidae). Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 66: 3-11 pdf

Gack C (unpubl.)

Gajdoš P, Svatoň J, Sloboda J (1999) Katalóg pavúkov Slovenska. Catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Ústav kr. ekol. SAV, Bratislava, 337 pp. pdf

Logunov D V (2015) Taxonomic-faunistic notes on the jumping spiders of the Mediterranean (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24: 33-85 pdf

Milasowszky N, Bauchhenss E, Freudenschuss M, Hepner M, Komposch C, Zulka K P (2015) Erstnachweise von Spinnen in Österreich (Araneae: Gnaphosidae, Linyphiidae, Lycosidae, Philodromidae, Theridiidae, Titanoecidae, Salticidae). Biodiversität und Naturschutz in Ostösterreich ‐ BCBEA 1/2: 296-303 pdf

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html pdf

Szinetár C, Rákóczi A M, Bleicher K, Botos E, Kovács P, Samu F (2012) A Sas-hegy pókfaunája II. A Sas-hegy faunakutatásának 80 éve - A hegyről kimutatott pókfajok kommentált listája [Spider fauna of Mt Sas-hegy II. 80 years of fauna research on Mt Sas-hegy, with the annotated list of spiders]. Rosalia 8: 333-362 pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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