Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Cyrba  Simon, 1876   2 species

Cyrba ocellata  (Kroneberg, 1875)

Description
Male

Prosoma brown, eyes surrounded with black, prosoma length: 2.2 mm. Chelicerae light brown. Leg I light brown, legs II-IV yellowish orange, femora darker. Opisthosoma: dorsum anteriorly yellowish grey, posteriorly darker, near spinnerets almost black with white patch, venter yellowish.

Female

Prosoma length: 2.4 mm. Colouration as in males, opisthosoma slightly lighter.

Additional information

Araneophagic species which invades the webs of web-building spiders, kills them and feeds on them.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Eastern Africa to India and Indonesia, Caucasus to Central Asia and China. Introduced to Australia (Queensland)
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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) ||| Georgia   (Seropian et al., 2023b) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) |||
References

Jackson R R (2000) Prey preferences and visual discrimination ability of Brettus, Cocalus and Cyrba, araneophagic jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Australia, Kenya and Sri Lanka. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 27: 29-39 pdf

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

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Seropian A, Bulbulashvili N, Otto S, Krammer H-J, Kachlishvili N, Datunashvili A (2023b) Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus barcode of life project. Part II. Caucasiana 2: 231-297 pdf

Wesołowska W (1996) New data on the jumping spiders of Turkmenistan (Aranei Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 5(1/2): 17-53 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

Updates
21-12-2023 Distribution insert Detail
20-05-2014 Datasheet update Detail
20-05-2014 Image insert
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