Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Pseudicius  Simon, 1885   11 species

Pseudicius badius (Simon, 1868)

Description
Male

Prosoma and opisthosoma as in P. encarpatus. Inner side of femur I apically with 1+5 spines. Tibial apophysis broad and blunt, not reaching the lateral tegular process.

Body length male: 4.5-4.8 mm
Female

Prosoma dorsally as in male but with dense light grey hairs. Opisthosoma as in male, dorsally lighter.

Body length female: 5.0-6.9 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France (Corsica), Italy to Iran
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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.

Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Spain  Removed (Miñano & Tamajón, 2017) |||
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, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

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

Miñano J, Tamajón Gómez R (2017) Descripción de una nueva especie de Afraflacilla Berland & Millot, 1941 (Araneae: Salticidae) del área del Mediterráneo occidental. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 71-81 pdf

Prószyński J (2003) Salticidae (Araneae) of the Levant. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 53: 1-180 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
11-11-2025 Distribution update Detail
28-01-2020 Datasheet update Detail
28-01-2020 Distribution update Detail
19-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail
15-01-2015 Image insert
15-04-2013 Distribution update Detail