Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Attulus  Simon, 1889   23 species

Attulus avocator (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885)

Description
Male

Prosoma yellow brow to brown, with a white median and 2 lateral stripes. Eye field densely covered with white scales. Clypeus yellow. Chelicerae yellow. Legs yellow with brown annulations and spots. Opisthosoma: dorsum yellow-brown with a white / yellow stripe, venter light yellow. Spinnerets yellow, tinged with grey.

Female

Prosoma braun, covered with white scales, eyed surrounded by black. Clypeus light yellow. Sternum yellow, tinged with grey. Chelicerae yellow. Opisthosoma: dorsum grey with yellow spots and patches, venter light yellow. Spinnerets yellow tinged with grey.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Azerbaijan doubtful, not listed by Nuruyeva & Zamani (2025)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia (South Siberia), Central Asia, India, China, Korea, Japan
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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.

Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)  Removed (Danışman et al., 2025a; Logunov, 2015) |||
References

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 pdf

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

Logunov D V, Marusik Y M (2000) Miscellaneous notes on Palaearctic Salticidae (Arachnida: Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 8: 263-292 pdf

Nuruyeva T, Zamani A (2025) An annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Azerbaijan. Zootaxa 5680: 1-168 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
19-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
19-08-2025 Distribution insert Detail
16-07-2015 Distribution update Detail