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Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Ballus  C. L. Koch, 1850   4 species

Ballus chalybeius  (Walckenaer, 1802)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032403

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Description

Embolus at tip of bulbus, convoluted. Epigyne with horseshoe-like sclerotised wall. Prosoma posteriorly covered by opisthosoma, eye region greater than half of visible prosomal part, male: prosoma surface roughly sculptured, shiny metallic. Legs light brown to red-brown. Opisthosoma strongly sclerotised, light brown with dark median band, posteriorly crossed by dark transverse band.

Body length male: 2.7-3.6 mm
Body length female: 3-3.4 mm
Additional information

Small, compact species. On shrubbery of deciduous forests and in leaf litter, mostly at sunny forest edges

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2018): Europe, North Africa to Central Asia
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp
(Braendegaard 1972a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Pesarini unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Zabka 1997)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Locket & Millidge 1951)

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male Pedipalp
(Roberts 1998)

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male Pedipalp
(Zabka 1997)

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male Tibial apophysis
(Locket & Millidge 1951)

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male Habitus
(Zabka 1997)

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male Habitus
(Stankovic unpubl.)

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female Epigyne
(Braendegaard 1972a)

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female Epigyne
(Roberts 1998)

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female Epigyne
(Zabka 1997)

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female Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1951)

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female Vulva
(Pesarini unpubl.)

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female Vulva
(Zabka 1997)

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female Habitus
(Zabka 1997)

References

Barrientos J A, Febrer B (2017) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). Nuevos datos. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 8-24 pdf

Biteniekyte M, Relys V (2012) The checklist of Lithuanian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Biologija 57: 148-158

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018)

Braendegaard J (1972a) Edderkopper eller spindlere I. Danmarks Fauna 72

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S (2018a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2017 [last updated 2 September 2018], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info

Demircan N, Topçu A (2016) First records for spider fauna of the European part of Turkey (Araneae). Serket 15: 85-91

Helsdingen P J van (2010a) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

Locket G H, Millidge A F (1951) British Spiders 1. Ray Soc London

Otto S (2017) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 08.2017. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Pantini P, Isaia M (2017) Checklist of the Italian spiders (version May 2017). online at http://www.museoscienzebergamo.it/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=96&Itemid=94 pdf

Pesarini C (unpubl.)

Roberts M J (1998) Spinnengids. Tirion Natuur Baarn, Netherlands

Stankovic B (unpubl.)

Vrenozi B, Jäger P (2012) A faunistic study on ground-dwelling spiders (Araneae) in the Tirana district, Albania. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 81-87

World Spider Catalog (2018) World Spider Catalog, version 19.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (15.07.2018) doi: 10.24436/2

Zabka M (1997) Salticidae: Pajaki skaczace (Arachnida: Araneae) (Salticidae of Poland). Fauna Polski (Fauna Poloniae) 19: 1-188

Updates
16-05-2018 Distribution update Old value
30-12-2017 Distribution update Old value
30-09-2015 Distribution update Old value