Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Chalcoscirtus  Bertkau, 1880   11 species

Chalcoscirtus tanasevichi Marusik, 1991

Description
Male

Prosoma reddish brown, eye field black. Prosoma length: 1.57-1.89 mm. Sternum light brown. Legs reddish brown.

Body length male: 3.6-3.9 mm
Female

Prosoma dark brown, shiny, eye field black. Prosoma length: 1.65 mm. Sternumand chelicerae brown. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum brown, with 5 pairs of white transverse markings, venter yellow-brown.

Distribution
  Presence
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Global distribution (WSC 2026): Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to West Siberia), Iran, Kazakhstan, Central Asia
Phenology
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Distribution List
Armenia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Georgia   (Seropian et al., 2023b) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
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, Marusik Y M (1999) A brief review of the genus Chalcoscirtus Bertkau, 1880 in the faunas of Central Asia and the Caucasus (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 7: 205-226 pdf

Marusik Y M (1991a) Spider genus Chalcoscirtus (Aranei, Salticidae) from the USSR. Communication 2. Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal 70(1): 19-31 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, 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

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

Zamani A, Nadolny A A, Dolejš P (2022b) New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part X. Arachnology 19: 551-573 pdf

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