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Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Phlegra  Simon, 1876   18 species

Phlegra bicognata Azarkina, 2004

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039118

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Description
Male

Prosoma brown, with a pair of poorly marked white longitudinal stripes, clypeus yellowish brown, covered with white hairs. Prosoma length: 2.5 mm. Chelicerae red-brown. Sternum dark brown. Legs dark brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum brownish grey, with a pair of brown longitudinal stripes, with scutum, ccovering about 1/3 of opisthosomal length. Spinnerets greyish brown.

Female

Prosoma brown, with a pair of poorly marked white longitudinal stripes, clypeus brown, covered with white hairs. Prosoma length: 2.9 mm. Chelicerae red-brown. Sternum yellowish brown. Legs  brown, except femora I-IV dark brown. Opisthosoma brown-grey, with dorsal pattern as in fig. Spinnerets brownish grey.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Ukraine, Russia (Europe), Kazakhstan
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Azarkina 2004)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Azarkina 2004)

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male Embolic division, ventral view
(Azarkina 2004)

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male Embolic division, apical view
(Azarkina 2004)

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male Habitus, dorsal view
(Azarkina 2004)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Azarkina 2004)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Azarkina 2004)

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female Median septum of epigyne
(Azarkina 2004)

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female Median septum of epigyne
(Azarkina 2004)

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female Median septum of epigyne
(Azarkina 2004)

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female Median septum of epigyne
(Azarkina 2004)

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female Vulva
(Azarkina 2004)

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female Vulva
(Azarkina 2004)

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female Habitus, dorsal view
(Azarkina 2004)

Distribution List
Russia, Central   (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Azarkina, 2004) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

Azarkina G (2004) New and poorly known Palaearctic species of the genus Phlegra Simon, 1876 (Araneae, Salticidae). Revue Arachnologique 14: 73-108 pdf

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App 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

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
27-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
16-07-2015 Image insert