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
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosselaers 2018)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosselaers 2018)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Coşar & Danışman 2021b)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Coşar & Danışman 2021b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Coşar & Danışman 2021b)
Pedipalp, ventro-prolateral view
(Coşar & Danışman 2021b)
Pedipalp, ventro-retrolateral view
(Coşar & Danışman 2021b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Fusco et al. 2025)
Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Habitus
(Metzner 1999)
Epigyne
(Metzner 1999)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Epigyne
(Bosselaers 2018)
Epigyne
(Fusco et al. 2025)
Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Metzner 1999)
Vulva
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Coşar & Danışman 2021b)
Vulva, ventral view
(Coşar & Danışman 2021b)
Distribution List
References
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Coşar İ, Danışman T (2021b) Two new records of jumping spiders from Turkey and a new locality of Heliophanus feltoni (Araneae: Salticidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 61: 98-103
Fusco T, Cantone S, Di Giulio A (2025) A new species of the genus Leptorchestes Thorell, 1870 from the Pantalica Natural Reserve (Sicily, Italy) (Araneae: Salticidae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 177-187
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Wesołowska 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 Systematics & Evolution 32: 217-240
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2