Synageles albotrimaculatus (Lucas, 1846)
Description
Male
Male palp with 2 tibial apophyses. Tibial apophysis broad and flat, second apophysis pointed, needle-like, between first one and bulbus. Embolus short, thin, slightly bent.
Prosoma dark brown, with spotted eye field, comprising more than anterior half of prosoma. Sternum dark brown, oval. Chelicerae light brown, with one tooth. Leg I robust with slightly swollen tibia, tibia and anterior side of femur dark brown, otherwise leg I yellow, legs II-IV brighter, with partly darker longitudinal stripes. Opisthosoma elongated, almost black, dorsally with 2 bright scuta connected by bright transverse line. Spinnerets bright, grey brown.
Female
Epigyne oval with slight central depression. Vulva with additional glands at the beginning of fertilization ducts.
Body length female: 1.4-1.5 mmAdditional information
In holm oak forest with wisps of grass, location in swamp vegetation in Spain
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Jiménez-Valverde & Wesołowska 2005)
Pedipalp
(Jiménez-Valverde & Wesołowska 2005)
Epigyne
(Jiménez-Valverde & Wesołowska 2005)
Epigyne
(Jiménez-Valverde & Wesołowska 2005)
Vulva
(Jiménez-Valverde & Wesołowska 2005)
Vulva
(Jiménez-Valverde & Wesołowska 2005)
Prosoma, lateral view
(Jiménez-Valverde & Wesołowska 2005)
Habitus
(Jiménez-Valverde & Wesołowska 2005)
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.
References
Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Coşar İ, Danışman T, Yildiran F A B (2014) The jumping spiders' fauna of Kırıkkale Province (Araneae, Salticidae). Serket 14: 83-94
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
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
Jiménez-Valverde A, Wesołowska W (2005) Synageles albotrimaculatus (Lucas, 1846) (Araneae, Salticidae), a spider species new to Spain. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13: 122-124
Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2