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

Ballus rufipes  (Simon, 1868)

Description
Male

Prosoma dorsally light brown with glossy, grained surface.  Sloping sides and dark eye field with white hairs. Opisthosoma dorsally darker than prosoma, with white hairs, without distinct pattern. Palp with light cymbium.

Body length male: 3.55 mm
Female

Prosoma dorsally dark brown, grained, with white hairs. Clypeus and eye rings with white hairs. Opisthosoma dorsally dark brown, with white hairs.

Body length female: 2.9 mm
Additional information

On the ground and in lower vegetation. Sometimes overwintering in snail shells.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2023): Europe, Turkey, Armenia, Cyprus, North Africa
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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.

Albania   (Komnenov, 2018) ||| Algeria   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Armenia   (Zarikian, 2022b) ||| Bulgaria   (Naumova et al., 2021) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| France   (no references) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Hungary   (Szűts et al., 2003) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Luxembourg   (Gerend, 2020) ||| North Macedonia   (no references) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (no references) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

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

Gerend R (2020) Lathys stigmatisata (Menge, 1869), Ballus rufipes (Simon, 1868), Synageles hilarulus (C.L. Koch, 1846), Phrurolithus nigrinus (Simon, 1878) and Phycosoma inornatum (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1861): five spiders new to the fauna of Luxembourg (Araneae: Theridiidae, Dyctiniidae [sic], Phrurolithidae, Salticidae) with records of other rare species. Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes luxembourgeois 122: 211-215 pdf

Komnenov M (2018) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the floodplains of the Vjosa river, south Albania. Acta ZooBot Austria 155: 197-212 pdf

Logunov D V (2015) Taxonomic-faunistic notes on the jumping spiders of the Mediterranean (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24: 33-85 pdf

Metzner H (1999) Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279 pdf

Naumova M, Blagoev G, Deltshev D (2021) Fifty spider species new to the Bulgarian fauna, with a review of some dubious species (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 4984: 228-257 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Szűts T, Szinetár C, Samu F, Szita É (2003) Check list of the Hungarian Salticidae with biogeographical notes. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 25: 45-61 pdf

WSC (2023) World Spider Catalog. Version 24. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (14.02.2023) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Zarikian N A (2022b) New records on Salticidae and Theridiidae (Araneae) spiders from Armenia. Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum 17: 169-185 pdf

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