Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Saitis  Simon, 1876   7 species

Saitis graecus  Kulczyński, 1905

Description
Male

Prosoma dorsally dark brown with black margin, head plate glossy black-brown, medially grey and laterally with light orange hairs. Thoracical area with light median band, which is narrowed posteriorly. Opisthosoma very variable, dorsally dark brown to black with light median band. Palp: beige-brown annulated, cymbium red-brown, distally lighter.

Body length male: 4-4.6 mm
Female

Prosoma dorsally as in male, sides lighter in lower half. Head plate totally orange-brown, light thoracical band extended anteriorly by a white wedge of hairs. Opisthosoma laterally darker, infested by a net-like pattern. Epigyne with two distinctly separated helically sclerotized grooves.

Body length female: 4.5-5.7 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Albania, Greece, Bulgaria
Phenology
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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.

Albania   (Vrenozi & Jäger, 2012) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Greece   (no references) |||
References

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) pdf

Metzner H (1999) Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279 pdf

Vrenozi B, Jäger P (2012) A faunistic study on ground-dwelling spiders (Araneae) in the Tirana district, Albania. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 81-87 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
19-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail