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Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Pseudicius  Simon, 1885   10 species

Pseudicius picaceus  (Simon, 1868)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035816

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Description
Male

Prosoma dorsally brown with black margin with lateral white hairs. Opisthosoma dorsally dark brown with symmetrical light spots and two lateral longitudinal bands of white hairs. Palp: sandy-brown striped, with white hairs dorsally. Cymbium rusty red, distally beige. Embolus erect, distal tip of tibial apophysis elongated.

Body length male: 3.65-4.75 mm
Female

Prosoma as in male. Opisthosoma dorsally light brown, black in posterior third, with beige lateral and median longitudinal pattern. Epigyne with two elliptical depressions and basal receptacula.

Body length female: 5.45-6.8 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2021): Mediterranean to Azerbaijan
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Metzner 1999)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Metzner 1999)

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male Habitus
(Metzner 1999)

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female Epigyne
(Metzner 1999)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Metzner 1999)

Distribution List
Albania   (Kůrka et al., 2020) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2020) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia   (no references) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Greece / Crete   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Libya   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| North Macedonia   (no references) ||| Romania   (no references) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans, unpubl.) |||
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

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

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

Kůrka A, Naumova M, Indzhov S, Deltshev C (2020) New faunistic and taxonomic data on the spider fauna of Albania (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 8-21 pdf

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

Otto S (2020) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 03.2020. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). http://araneae.it. Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

WSC (2021) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (03.01.2021) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
29-04-2020 Distribution insert Detail
19-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail