Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Macaroeris  Wunderlich, 1992   5 species

Macaroeris flavicomis (Simon, 1885)

Description
Female

Prosoma light brown, densely covered with light yellow hairs; Chelicerae red-brown, proximal third densely covered with white hairs; Sternum orange-brown; Legs yellow; Opisthosoma light beige with dark pattern, with 6 white spots posteriorly.

Body length female: 5.7 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Croatia/Montenegro: The site from "Dalmatia" by Logunov (2015) is situeated in Montenegro and not in Croatia
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain to Azerbaijan and Israel
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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.

Albania   (Deltshev et al., 2011b; Blick, 2018) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia   (Logunov, 2015) ||| France   (Logunov, 2015) ||| France / Corsica   (Logunov, 2015) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Libya   (Logunov, 2015) ||| Moldova   (Vasiliev & Mikhailov, 2023) ||| North Macedonia   (Deltshev et al., 2013) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) ||| Slovenia   (Logunov, 2015) ||| Spain   (Logunov & Schäfer, 2025) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Logunov, 2015; Kunt et al., 2012) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
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) pdf

Blick T (2018) A small collection of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the River Vjosa, Albania – with an updated spider checklist of Albania. Acta ZooBot Austria 155: 213-232 pdf

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

Deltshev C, Komnenov M, Blagoev G, Georgiev T, Lazarov S, Stojkoska E, Naumova M (2013) Faunistic diversity of spiders (Araneae) in Galichitsa Mountain (FYR Macedonia). Biodiversity Data Journal 1(e977): 1-70 pdf

Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144 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

Kunt K B, Kaya R S, Özkütük R S, Danişman T, Yağmur E A, Elverici M (2012) Additional notes on the spider fauna of Turkey (Araneae). Turkish Journal of Zoology 36: 637-651 pdf

Logunov D V (2015) Taxonomic-faunistic notes on the jumping spiders of the Mediterranean (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24: 33-85 pdf

Logunov D V, Schäfer M (2025) A review of the jumping spider genus Macaroeris Wunderlich, 1992 (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae: Dendryphantini). Arachnology 20: 364-409 pdf

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

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 pdf

Vasiliev A I, Mikhailov K G (2023) Annotated checklist of spiders (Araneae) of the Republic of Moldova. Invertebrate Zoology 20: 307-342 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

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