Leptorchestes sikorskii Prószyński, 2000
Description
Male
Prosoma and chelicerae fawn, eye field blackish brown, eyes surrounded with black. Prosoma length: 2.05-2.6 mm. Opisthosoma anteriorly grey, posteriorly shining black, dinstinctly constricted, constriction white.
Female
Prosoma long and flat, uniformly brown. Prosoma length: 1.21 mm. Chelicerae brown. Opisthosoma blackish brown, with a whitish line and 2 lateral spots of white scales.
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Pedipalp, ventro-lateral view
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Naumova et al. 2021)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Naumova et al. 2021)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Fusco et al. 2025)
Habitus
(Prószyński 2000)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Prószyński 2000)
Epigyne
(Fusco et al. 2025)
Spermatheca
(Prószyński 2000)
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.
References
Coşar İ, Danışman T, Yildiran F A B (2014) The jumping spiders' fauna of Kırıkkale Province (Araneae, Salticidae). Serket 14: 83-94 
Fusco T, Cantone S, Di Giulio A (2025) A new species of the genus Leptorchestes Thorell, 1870 from the Pantalica Natural Reserve (Sicily, Italy) (Araneae: Salticidae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 177-187
Naumova M, Blagoev G, Deltshev D (2021) Fifty spider species new to the Bulgarian fauna, with a review of some dubious species (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 4984: 228-257
Prószyński J (2000) On mostly new species of Salticidae (Aranei) from Levant. Arthropoda Selecta 8: 231-262
Wesołowska W, Szeremeta M (2001) A revision of the ant-like salticid genera Enoplomischus Giltay, 1931, Kima Peckham & Peckham, 1902 and Leptorchestes Thorell, 1870 (Araneae: Salticidae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 32: 217-240
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2