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

Ballus armadillo (Simon, 1871)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032402

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Description
Male

Prosoma dark with black patches around the eyes. Leg I with dark femur and tibia, remaining segments and legs II-IV light. Opisthosoma dark with chromatic pattern in posterior part.

Body length male: 2.5-3.0 mm
Female

Prosoma as in males. Legs uniformly light. Opisthosoma with chromatic pattern extending the whole length.

Body length female: 2.9-4.2 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France (Corsica), Italy, Malta
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Alicata & Cantarella 1988)

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male Pedipalp without bulbus, ventral 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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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Alicata & Cantarella 1988)

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female Epigyne
(Rehfeldt & Cassar 2024)

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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)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Rehfeldt & Cassar 2024)

Distribution List
Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Malta   (Rehfeldt & Cassar, 2024) |||
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

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

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

Rehfeldt S, Cassar T (2024) A contribution to the arachnofauna (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones) of the Maltese Islands, with two new records for Europe. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 67: 18-47 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
21-06-2024 Image insert
17-06-2024 Distribution insert Detail
02-10-2014 Datasheet update Detail
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