Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Neaetha  Simon, 1885   6 species

Neaetha cerussata (Simon, 1868)

Description

Prosoma whitish, with white margin. Legs I-II brown, legs III-IV pale yellow, annulated. Opisthosoma light yellow.

Body length male: 4.0 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Portugal: listed by Branco et al. (2019), but in a remarkable distance from the known range, not figured/proven and preliminary not counded here
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy (Sicily), Greece, Egypt, Syria
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Distribution List
Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
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

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 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

Prószyński J (1984) Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach 2: 1-177 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
06-05-2021 Distribution update Detail
08-01-2015 Image insert