Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Saitis  Simon, 1876   7 species

Saitis imitatus (Simon, 1868)

Description

Prosoma yellowish orange and blackish brown head region. Sternum yellow-orange. Opisthosoma dorsally cream with grey markings, scutum orange-yellow

Body length female: 6 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Presence in Italy doubtful (Pantini & Isaia, 2015), therefore removed
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Croatia, Montenegro
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Distribution List
Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Montenegro   (Naumova et al., 2019a) |||
References

Dobroruka L J (2004) Notes on Croatian jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Dalmatia and from the Kvarner. Natura Croatica 13: 35-45 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

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna]. pdf

Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
07-05-2013 Distribution update Detail