Salticus confusus Lucas, 1846
Description
Male
Prosoma brown, margins with white scales, eye field dark brown, anterior part with white transverse band, 2 white patches behind posterior lateral eyes. Prosoma length: 1.78 mm. Sternum yellowish brown, covered with white hairs. Chelicerae yellowish brown. Legs yellowish, patellae, tibiae and metatarsi with brown sides, leg I slightly darker. Opisthosoma: dorsum and sides grey-brown, dorsum with 3 white transverse lines of white scales, venter brown-yellow. Spinnerets yellow brownish.
Female
Colouration as in males but lighter. Palps light yellow. Legs light yellow, only apical parts of femora, patellae and tibiae, and proximal parts of metatarsi are tinged with brown. Opisthosoma light grey. Prosoma length: 2.15 mm.
Body length female: 6.3 mmDistribution
Figures
Pedipalp
(Simon 1937)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Logunov 2015)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Logunov 2015)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Logunov 2015)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Logunov 2015)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Logunov 2015)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Logunov 2015)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Logunov 2015)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Breitling 2020)
Chelicera, anterior view
(Simon 1937)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Logunov 2015)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Logunov 2015)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Breitling 2020)
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
Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 
Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018)
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Lecigne S, Moutaouakil S, Lips J (2025) Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – second note. On new species and new records from caves and miscellaneous terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 40(1, supplement): 1-184
Logunov D V (2015) Taxonomic-faunistic notes on the jumping spiders of the Mediterranean (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24: 33-85
Schäfer M (2025) Ein Beitrag zur Springspinnenfauna (Araneae: Salticidae) der spanischen Balearen-Insel Ibiza mit der Erstbeschreibung von Salticus ebusitanus sp. nov. und elf Erstnachweisen für die Insel und vier für die Balearen. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 70: 9-17
Simon E (1937) Les arachnides de France 6 (5). Paris (Roret): 979-1298
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2