Evarcha michailovi Logunov, 1992
Description
Male
Prosoma brown to dark brown, with two longitudinal stripes composed of white setae. Black around eyes and transverse line of white setae above anterior eye row. Clypeus orange and covered with thin white and orange setae. Sternum and chelicerae orange-brown. Gnathocoxae and labium orange-brown with white tips. Legs brown with yellowish metatarsi and tarsi. Femora and tibiae darker, usually dark brown.
Dorsum either monochromously dark gray or dark gray with markings of a longitudinal black line, two white oval spots on the front line and transverse black lines on the sides. Venter lighter, brown gray. Book-lung covers and spinnerets brownish-gray.
Similar to E. laetabunda but with larger body size, thicker embolus rounded at tip and structure of the tibial apophysis.
Prosoma length 2.08-2.85 mm, width 1.53-2.13 mm; opisthosoma length 1.88-2.75 mm, width 1.25-2.00 mm.
Body length male: 3.9-5.6 mmFemale
Colouration as in male (slightly lighter), except as follows: coxae and basal parts of all femora yellow.
Similar to E. laetabunda but with more heavily sclerotized epigynal plate and different structure of the spermathecae.
Prosoma length 2.38-2.75 mm, width 1.80-2.00 mm; opisthosoma length 3.00-3.13 mm, width 1.50-1.65 mm.
Body length female: 3.4-5.9 mmAdditional information
On shrubs in slope steppes and in glades along edges of mixed forest.
Record of E. laetabunda by Coşar & Varol (2016) belongs to E. michailovi.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ledoux et al. 1996)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Logunov 1992b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Logunov 1992b)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Coşar & Varol 2016)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Coşar & Varol 2016)
Pedipalp, lateral view
(Vogels et al. 2019)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Vogels et al. 2019)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Mezőfi & Miglécz 2025)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Mezőfi & Miglécz 2025)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Mezőfi & Miglécz 2025)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Vogels et al. 2019)
Habitus, frontal view
(Vogels et al. 2019)
Habitus, lateral view
(Vogels et al. 2019)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ledoux et al. 1996)
Epigyne
(Ledoux et al. 1996)
Epigyne
(Logunov 1992b)
Epigyne
(Vogels et al. 2019)
Vulva
(Logunov 1992b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Vogels et al. 2019)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Vogels et al. 2019)
Habitus, frontal view
(Vogels et al. 2019)
Habitus, lateral view
(Vogels et al. 2019)
Habitus, ventral view
(Vogels et al. 2019)
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.
References
Alderweireldt M, Janssen M (2017) The occurrence of Evarcha michaelovi [sic] Logunov, 1992 in Belgium, replacing Evarcha laetabunda (C.L. Koch, 1846) on the Belgian spider checklist. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 31(3, 2016): 115-118 
Barrientos J A, Uribarri I, García-Sarrión R (2015b) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) del Turó de l'Home (Parc Natural del Montseny, Cataluña, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 27: 61-74
Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Coşar İ, Varol M İ (2016) Six new records for the spider fauna of Turkey (Araneae: Salticidae) Turkish Journal of Entomology 40: 157-163
Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1996a) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Urals. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 228 pp.
Helsdingen P J van, IJland S, Komnenov M (2018) Inventory of the spiders (Araneae) of the border region of northern Greece with Albania and FYR Macedonia. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 37: 5-23
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Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267
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Mezőfi L, Miglécz T (2025) Virágos sorközvetések a Tokaji és Egri borvidékeken – Tanácsok a sorközök vetéséhez, fenntartásához, illetve a sorközök leggyakoribb növényfajainak és hasznos ízeltlábúinak bemutatása [Wildflower sowings in the Tokaj and Eger wine-growing regions - Guidelines on establishing and maintaining wild forb inter-rows, and introducing the most common plant species and beneficial arthropods]. ÖMKi - Ökológiai Mezőgazdasági Kutatóintézet, Budapest, 49 pp.
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Polchaninova N Y (2012) Assemblages of herb-dwelling spiders (Araneae) of various steppe types in Ukraine and the Central Chernozem region of Russia. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 43: 66-78
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Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.
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Vogels J, Koomen P, Tutelaers P, IJland S (2019) The jumping spider Evarcha michailovi new for the Netherlands: habitat description and identification key of all Dutch Evarcha species. Entomologische Berichten 79: 217-229
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
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