Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Sittisax  Prószyński, 2017   2 species

Sittisax ranieri  (Peckham & Peckham, 1909)

Description
Male

Prosoma dark to blackish brown. Ocular area black. Clypeus medium to blackish brown. Chelicerae and sternum dark brown. Legs yellowish brown to dark brown, except lighter metatarsi and tarsi. Opisthosoma: dorsum dark grey-brown, with a pair of light spots, sides brown yellowish, venter light to yellowish grey.

Body length male: 4.3-5.4 mm
Female

Colouration lighter than in males, mostly reddish brown.

Body length female: 6.1-6.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): North America, Northern Europe, Russia (Europe to Far North-East), Mongolia, Japan
Phenology
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Figures
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.

Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Norway   (Aakra et al., 2016) ||| Russia, Northern   (no references) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) |||
References

Aakra K, Morka G H, Antonson A, Farlund M, Wrånes R E, Frølandshagen R, Løvbrekke H, Furuseth P, Fjellberg A, Lemke M, Pfliegler W P, Andersen S, Olsen K M, Aadland B, Berggren K (2016) Spiders new to Norway (Arachnida, Araneae) with ecological, taxonomical and faunistic comments. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 63: 6-43 pdf

Almquist S (2006) Swedish Araneae, part 2 – families Dictynidae to Salticidae. Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 63: 285-601 pdf

Farlund M (2019) Norwegian Spiders - Norske edderkopper. Siste oppdatering for funn av nye arter 10. oktober, 2019. Online at http://crocea.wordpress.com/norsk-artsliste/ pdf

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm pdf

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001] pdf

Kronestedt T, Logunov D V (2001) On the separation of Sitticus ranieri Peckham & Peckham and S. saxicola (C. L. Koch) (Araneae: Salticidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 108: 463-481 pdf

Maddison W P, Maddison D R, Derkarabetian S, Hedin M (2020) Sitticine jumping spiders: phylogeny, classification, and chromosomes (Araneae, Salticidae, Sitticini). ZooKeys 925: 1-54 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
23-04-2020 Image insert
26-02-2014 Distribution update Detail