Leptorchestes peresi (Simon, 1868)
Description
Male
Prosoma brown to dark brown, eyes surrounded by black or eye field completely black. Prosoma length: 1.8-2.4 mm. Chelicerae long, brown, with 2 teeth on promargin, retromargin toothless. Sternum brown. Legs brown, darker streaks on dorsal side of femora, patellae and tibiae I-II. Opisthosoma brown, posterior part darker, white line along constriction, venter brown, with a white triangular patch behind epigastric furrow.
Body length male: 5.4 mmFemale
Prosoma length: 2.0-2.5 mm. Colouration as in males, sometimes eye field black with metallic sheen.
Body length female: 6 mmAdditional information
Figures by Metzner (1999) published under L. mutilloides.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Metzner 1999)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Metzner 1999)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wesolowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wesolowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Wesolowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wesolowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wesolowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wesolowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Wesolowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Habitus
(Metzner 1999)
Epigyne
(Metzner 1999)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Wesolowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Wesolowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Wesolowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Wesolowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Metzner 1999)
Vulva
(Wesolowska & Szeremeta 2001)
References
Helsdingen P J van (2010a) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org
Logunov D V (2015) Taxonomic-faunistic notes on the jumping spiders of the Mediterranean (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24(1): 33-85
Metzner H (1999) Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279
Metzner H (2017) Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Accessed 14 November 2017. Online at http://www.jumping-spiders.com
Pantini P, Isaia M (2017) Checklist of the Italian spiders (version May 2017). online at http://www.museoscienzebergamo.it/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=96&Itemid=94 
Wesolowska W, Szeremeta M (2001) A revision of the ant-like salticid genera Enoplomischus Giltay, 1931, Kima Peckham & Peckham, 1902 and Leptorchestes Thorell, 1870 (Araneae: Salticidae). Insect Syst Evol 32: 217-240
World Spider Catalog (2018) World Spider Catalog, version 19.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (15.07.2018) doi: 10.24436/2