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Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Phlegra  Simon, 1876   18 species

Phlegra lineata (C. L. Koch, 1846)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035585

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Description
Male

Prosoma dark brown with two dorsal and two lateral longitudinal bands. Opisthosoma dorsally dark brown with a median and two lateral longitudinal stripes with orange-brown margins. Palp dark brown, joint between patella and femur white-black dorsally, cymbium black with distal hair tuft. Embolus thin, reverse S-shaped and medially transparent.

Body length male: 3.6-5.1 mm
Female

Prosoma dorsally light sandy, with white hairs, laterally with dark brown longitudinal lines and a brown median band. Opisthosoma with dense white hairs dorsally, two narrow lateral and two wide black median longitudinal bands with orange borders. Epigyne with two distinctly separated grooves and anterior receptaculae.

Body length female: 4.6-6.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Canary Is., Southern Europe, Turkey, Syria, Russia (Caucasus)
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Metzner 1999)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Metzner 1999)

species

male Habitus
(Metzner 1999)

species

female Epigyne
(Metzner 1999)

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female Epigyne
(Ponomarev et al. 2019a)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Metzner 1999)

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   (Naumova, 2020) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025; Pantini et al., 2013) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2006) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019; Wunderlich, 2012b) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
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

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info 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

Komnenov M (2006) New data on jumping spiders in the Republic of Macedonia with a complete checklist (Araneae: Salticidae). In: Deltshev, C. & Stoev, P. (eds.) European Arachnology 2005. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica Supplement 1: 301-314 pdf

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

Naumova M (2020) Descriptions of two new spider species, with new data on the Albanian arachnofauna (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Pseudoscorpiones and Scorpiones). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 72: 3-12 pdf

Pantini P, Sassu A, Serra G (2013) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida Araneae) of Sardinia. Biodiversity Journal 4: 3-104 pdf

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Ponomarev A V, Aliev M A, Khabiev G N, Shmatko V Y (2019a) New data on the spider fauna (Aranei) of Dagestan, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 28: 309-334 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

Wunderlich J (2012b) Few rare and a new species of spiders (Araneae) from Portugal, with resurrection of the genus Chiracanthops Mello-Leitao 1942 (Clubionidae: Eutichurinae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 8: 183-191 pdf

Updates
13-11-2025 Distribution update Detail
09-01-2023 Distribution update Detail
28-03-2020 Distribution insert Detail
05-07-2019 Image insert
01-07-2019 Distribution update Detail
19-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail
16-12-2013 Distribution update Detail
25-06-2013 Distribution update Detail
15-04-2013 Distribution update Detail