Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Phlegra  Simon, 1876   18 species

Phlegra theseusi Logunov, 2001

Description
Male

Prosoma yellow-brown, sides brown, with a pair of white longitudinal stripes. Clypeus densely covered with white hairs. Prosoma length: 2.45 mm, Prosoma width: 1.60 mm. Legs: coxae and femora yellow, remaining segments brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum grey to dark grey, with 3 white longitudinal stripes and a well-developed brown scutum, venter yellow to yellow-grey.

Female

Prosoma length: 3.13 mm, prosoma width: 2.13 mm. Colouration as in males, except: clypeus without white hairs. Opisthosoma without scutum and white longitudinal stripes poorly marked or absent.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece (Crete)
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Greece / Crete   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) |||
References

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

Logunov D V (2001b) New and poorly known species of the jumping spiders (Aranei: Salticidae) from Afghanistan, Iran and Crete. Arthropoda Selecta 10: 59-66 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
06-11-2025 Distribution update Detail
15-10-2013 Datasheet update Detail
15-10-2013 Image insert