Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Afraflacilla  Berland & Millot, 1941   8 species

Afraflacilla epiblemoides  (Chyzer, 1891)

Description
Male

Prosoma brown, with white median band, sides darker, margin black, cephalic part dark brown, eyes surrounded by black. Chelicerae orange-brown. Sternum dark brown, with small white dots, margin black. Legs light sandy brown to dark brown, leg I brown, femur I darker. Opisthosoma: dorsum black, with 2 white longitudinal stripes, venter grey-brown, laterally covered with white hairs.

Body length male: 4.65 mm
Female

Prosoma as in males but darker, thoracic part only sparsely covered with white hairs. Legs light sandy brown, with black spots, tarsus I light yellow. Opisthosoma: dorsum dark brown, interspersed with white hairs, median part with light transverse band, posterior third with 2 broken, light transverse stripes, posterior part black, venter fawn, sides covered with white hairs.

Body length female: 4.85 mm

Frequency: Very rarely found

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Central, Eastern Europe
Phenology
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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.

Armenia   (Zarikian, 2020) ||| Bulgaria   (Naumova et al., 2021) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2006) ||| Romania   (no references) ||| Slovakia   (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024; Uyar & Uğurtaş, 2012) |||
References

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Dobroruka L J (2001) Pseudicius epiblemoides (Araneae: Salticidae) in central Europe. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 22: 50-54 pdf

Komnenov M (2006) New data on jumping spiders in the Republic of Macedonia with a complete checklist (Araneae: Salticidae). In: Deltshev, C. & Stoev, P. (eds.) European Arachnology 2005. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica Supplement 1: 301-314 pdf

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

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html pdf

Uyar Z, Uğurtaş İ H (2012) Jumping Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Northwest Anatolia (Turkey). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 64: 235-240 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Zarikian N (2020) A contribution to the checklist of the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Armenia. Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum 16: 193-202 pdf

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