Pellenes seriatus (Thorell, 1875)
Description
Male
Prosoma dark brown, sparsely covered with white hairs, eye field black, clypeus dark bown, with orange hairs. Prosoma length: 3.00-3.88 mm. Sternum and chelicerae dark brown. Legs dark brown, densely covered with dark hairs. Opisthosoma: dorsum brown-grey, with a white longitudinal line, venter yellowish brown. Spinnerets brown.
Body length male: 5.6-6.5 mmFemale
Prosoma dark brown, sparsely covered with white hairs, clypeus reddish, densely covered with white hairs. Anterior median eyes surrounded by dense orange hairs. Prosoma length: 3.28-4.00 mm. Sternum dark brown, covered with dark hairs. Chelicerae dark brown. Legs: coxae, patellae and proximal parts of femora yellow, remaining segments brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum dark brown, with a white longitudinal line, venter grey-yellowish. Spinnerets brown.
Body length female: 7.2-8.3 mmDistribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Metzner 1999)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Metzner 1999)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Logunov & Marusik 1994a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Logunov & Marusik 1994a)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Logunov & Marusik 1994a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lazarov et al. 2001)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Lazarov et al. 2001)
Pedipalp, apical view
(Mazzia et al. 2019)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Mazzia et al. 2019)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Mazzia et al. 2019)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Mazzia et al. 2019)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Duma 2007a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Duma 2007a)
Habitus
(Metzner 1999)
Epigyne
(Metzner 1999)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Logunov & Marusik 1994a)
Epigyne
(Coşar & Varol 2016)
Epigyne
(Mazzia et al. 2019)
Epigyne
(Mazzia et al. 2019)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Metzner 1999)
Vulva
(Logunov & Marusik 1994a)
Vulva
(Coşar & Varol 2016)
Habitus, frontal view
(Stanković 2023)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Stanković 2023)
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.
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) 
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
Coşar İ, Varol M İ (2016) Six new records for the spider fauna of Turkey (Araneae: Salticidae) Turkish Journal of Entomology 40: 157-163
Duma I (2007a) Pellenes seriatus (Thorell, 1875) (Araneae: Salticidae) new for Romania. Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Biologia 52: 3-6
Geci D, Naumova M (2021b) A preliminary checklist of the spiders of Kosovo (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologia Balkanica, Special Edition 4: 11-28
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
Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267
Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91
Lazarov S, Deltshev C, Blagoev G (2001) The spiders (Araneae) of Sashtinska Sredna Gora Mountain (Bulgaria). Faunistic and zoogeographical analysis. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 53: 3-28
Logunov D V, Marusik Y M (1994a) New data on the jumping spiders of the Palearctic fauna (Aranei Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 3(1-2): 101-115
Mazzia C, Bounias-Delacour A, Cornic J-F (2019) Pellenes seriatus (Thorell, 1875), découverte pour la France et redescription de l’espèce. Revue Arachnologique (2) 6: 24-28
Metzner H (1999) Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App
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.
Stanković B (2023) Diversity of spider fauna in the area of Jagodina (Serbia). In: Seydoşoğlu, S. & Durna Aydin, Ö (eds.) International Cukurova Agriculture and Veterinary Congress 4. Adana, pp. 590-615
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Zarikian N (2020) A contribution to the checklist of the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Armenia. Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum 16: 193-202
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