Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Evarcha  Simon, 1902   12 species

Evarcha nepos  (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

Description
Male

Prosoma blackish, some areas brown. Eye field with white spot, white areas behind posterior median eyes. Prosoma length: 2.10 mm. Chelicerae brown. Legs: femora II-IV light, apical half black: leg I dark, apical half of femur and tibia vantrally black. Opisthosoma blackish brown, with white tip, median part with large, square, white spot, sides white.

Female

Prosoma blackish brown with whitish adpressed setae. Prosoma length: 2.27 mm. Chelicerae brown. Legs: all femora whitish, apically black; remaining segments brown with blackish ringsand some white setae. Opisthosoma with complicated "leaf" pattern of black, brown and white spots.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Algeria, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel
Phenology
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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.

Algeria   (Alioua & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c; Logunov, 2015) ||| Greece   (Schäfer, 2024) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024a) |||
References

Alioua & Bosmans (2024) Spiders of arid lands: the Ghardaïa region (northern Sahara) with seven new records for Algeria. Zootaxa 5497: 301-336 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], 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

Prószyński J (2003) Salticidae (Araneae) of the Levant. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 53: 1-180 pdf

Schäfer M (2024) Zur Springspinnenfauna (Araneae: Salticidae) der griechischen Dodekanes-Insel Rhodos, mit der Erstbeschreibung des Weibchens von Pseudeuophrys rhodiensis und dem ersten Nachweis von Evarcha nepos für Griechenland. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 68: 10-17 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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