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Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Talavera  G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1909   12 species

Talavera inopinata Wunderlich, 1993

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036448

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Description
Male

Embolus with tip directed retrolaterally. Prosoma yellow, brown-tinged and with black radial and lateral lines. Sternum yellow-brown. Chelicerae yellow. Legs yellow, darkly annulated. Femur black on anterior side. Opisthosoma dorsally grey to dark grey. Male: dorsally with bright spots. Spinnerets brown-grey.

Body length male: 1.9-2.0 mm
Female

Epigyne with rounded epigyne fold. Female: posteriorly with dorsal chevrons, ventrally grey-brown with 2 yellow longitudinal stripes. 

Body length female: 2.1-2.2 mm
Additional information

extensively used poor grassland/fallows, strongly exposed, dry

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Logunov & Kronestedt 2003)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Logunov & Kronestedt 2003)

species

male Pedipalp
(Logunov & Kronestedt 2003)

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female Epigyne
(Logunov & Kronestedt 2003)

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female Epigyne
(Logunov & Kronestedt 2003)

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female Vulva
(Logunov & Kronestedt 2003)

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.

Austria   (Horak & Kropf, 2009) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2015) ||| Luxembourg   (Kreuels et al., 2019) ||| Switzerland   (Hänggi, 1993) |||
References

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 pdf

Hänggi A (1993) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Spinnenfauna des Kantons Tessin IV - Weitere faunistisch bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde der Tessiner Montanstufe. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 66: 303-316 pdf

Horak P, Kropf C (2009) Die Spinnenfauna eines Waldrandes in Thal bei Graz, Österreich (Arachnida: Araneae). Contributions to Natural History 12: 659-679 pdf

Isaia M, Paschetta M, Chiarle A (2015) Annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the site of community importance and special area of conservation "Alpi Marittime" (NW Italy). Zoosystema 37: 57-114 pdf

Kreuels M, Staudt A, Christian S (2019) Die Spinnenfauna von Luxemburg – eine Zusammenstellung der Nachweise aus den Jahren 1906-2018 (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes luxembourgeois 121: 203-230 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Logunov D V, Kronestedt T (2003) A review of the genus Talavera Peckham and Peckham, 1909 (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Natural History 37: 1091-1154 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
11-11-2025 Distribution update Detail
01-05-2020 Distribution insert Detail