Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Mogrus  Simon, 1882   14 species

Mogrus canescens (C. L. Koch, 1846)

Description
Male

Prosoma dorsally orange, thoracic area medially and laterally orange-brown, head plate orange-brown, eye field black and with yellow-white hairs. Face with light yellow hairs. Opisthosoma dorsally dark brown with light orange chain-like stain pattern, hairs as on prosoma.

Body length male: 6.4 mm
Female

Prosoma dorsally light orange, thoracal area medially and laterally orange-brown, head plate orange-brown with black eye field. Opisthosoma dorsally dark, two parallel, light, discontinuous longitudinal bands, laterally with beige discontinuous longitudinal band. Epigyne with two curved narrow grooves.

Body length female: 6.55 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Eastern Mediterranean
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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.

Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Libya   (Elkrew et al., 2024) |||
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

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

Elkrew H, Hamza A, Ghana S, Shaibi T, Swehli A I, Elmareme H, Ahmad A (2024) Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Libya. Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences 22: 19346-19369 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

Metzner H (1999) Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279 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
04-06-2025 Distribution update Detail
04-06-2025 Distribution insert Detail
20-01-2024 Distribution update Detail
19-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail