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Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Ballus  C. L. Koch, 1850   5 species

Ballus variegatus Simon, 1876

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032411

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Description
Male

Prosoma reddish with black patches around the eyes. Opisthosoma light with darker chromatic patches.

Body length male: 2.9-3.2 mm
Female

Prosoma as in males. Opisthosoma lighter and with less marked chromatic pattern.

Body length female: 3.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Spain, France, Italy
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventro-apical view
(Alicata & Cantarella 1988)

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male Pedipalp without bulbus, retrolateral view
(Alicata & Cantarella 1988)

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male Bulbus
(Alicata & Cantarella 1988)

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male Bulbus
(Alicata & Cantarella 1988)

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male Palpal tibia, ventral view
(Alicata & Cantarella 1988)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Alicata & Cantarella 1988)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Alicata & Cantarella 1988)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Alicata & Cantarella 1988)

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female Vulva, posterior view
(Alicata & Cantarella 1988)

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.

France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Alicata P, Cantarella T (1988) The genus Ballus: A revision of the European taxa described by Simon together with observations on the other species of the genus. Animalia 14: 35-63 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 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

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 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

Updates
09-11-2025 Distribution update Detail
02-10-2014 Image insert