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Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Pseudicius  Simon, 1885   11 species

Pseudicius vankeeri  Metzner, 1999

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035836

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Description
Male

Prosoma length: 1.90 mm, prosoma width: 1.33 mm. Prosoma yellowish brownish, covered with white adpressed scales, 2 white marginal bands, eyes surrounded with black. Clypeus densely covered with white hairs. Maxillae, labium and chelicerae brown. Sternum yellow, tinged with brown. Leg I stronger and darker, brown to dark brown. Legs II-IV light brown, with yellow spots. Opisthosoma: dorsum yellow with 3 longitudinal stripes of brown scales and an irregular pattern of brownish patches and broken transverse stripes, venter greyish yellow. Spinnerets yellow-brown.

Body length male: 4.3 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 2.45 mm, prosoma width: 1.65 mm. Colouration as in males, except: prosoma without white marginal bands. Opisthosoma: dorsum without longitudinal stripes, but a group of 5 dark spots at the posterior end, venter yellow. All legs and palps yellow.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Metzner 1999)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Metzner 1999)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Logunov 2009a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Logunov 2009a)

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male Tibial apophysis, retrolateral view
(Logunov 2009a)

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male Habitus
(Metzner 1999)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Logunov 2009a)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Logunov 2009a)

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female Spermatheca
(Prószyński 2003)

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female Habitus, lateral view
(Prószyński 2003)

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.

Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (no references) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Logunov D V (2009a) New and poorly known species of Salticidae (Araneae) from Turkey and Iran. Contributions to Natural History 12: 899-919 pdf

Logunov D V (2013b) On a small spider collection from Cyprus (Arachnida: Araneae). Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 127: 4-5 pdf

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

Prószyński J (2003) Salticidae (Araneae) of the Levant. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 53: 1-180 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
07-11-2019 Distribution update Detail
15-01-2015 Image insert