Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Evarcha  Simon, 1902   12 species

Evarcha armeniaca Logunov, 1999

Description
Male

Prosoma brown, eye field densely covered with white scales and with 2 white bands, eyes surrounded with black, prosoma length: 2.13 mm. Sternum and chelicerae brown. Legs yellow-brownish, with brown rings and pattern, leg I darker, femur to tibia dorsally and ventrally with rows of dense hairs. Opisthosoma: dorsum brown-grey, with a longitudinal white band, venter braun-gelb.

Female

Prosoma yellow-brown, densely covered with white scales, eyes surrounded with black, prosoma length: 2.38 mm. Sternum brownish-yellow, densely covered with white hairs. Chelicerae brown. Legs yellow, with braun rings and pattern. Opisthosoma: dorsum brown, with a white longitudinal band, sides yellow, venter yellow, with a broad brown longitudinal stripe narrowing before the spinnerets.

Distribution
  Presence
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Global distribution (WSC 2026): Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Armenia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Georgia   (Seropian et al., 2024c) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Logunov, 2015) |||
References

Logunov D V (1999b) Two new jumping spider species from the Caucasus (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 7: 301-303 pdf

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

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

Seropian A, Bulbulashvili N, Makharadze G, Baznikin A (2024c) New and interesting spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from Vashlovani National Park and Chachuna Managed Reserve (Georgia). Caucasiana 3: 183-213 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
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