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Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Phlegra  Simon, 1876   18 species

Phlegra blaugrana  Azarkina, Pérez-Gómez & Sánchez-García, 2022

Description
Male

Opisthosoma with dorsal scutum, surrounded by dense, black, long setae, covered with short, iridescent metallic greenish-blue setae, a shield-shaped patch centrally, with parallel Λ-shaped blue-red-blue-red transverse bands. Venter yellow-brown,
covered with short, white setae.

Body length male: 5.8–6.9 mm
Female

Opisthosoma ventral brown, dorsal dark brown, with central whitish longitudinal band, dark brown laterally, with six pairs of white spots on dark background.

Body length female: 6.5–8.2 mm
Additional information

Ground-dwellers in grasslands on the “Areniscas del Aljibe” Unit, dominated by annual species with scattered shrubs (Calicotome villosa, Chamaerops humilis, Olea europaea europaea, Crataegus monogyna).

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain
The observations made suggest it has an annual lifespan. The first adults begin to appear September–October.
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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.

Spain   (Azarkina et al., 2022) |||
References

Azarkina G N, Pérez-Gómez Á, Sánchez-García I (2022) Description of a stunning new species of Phlegra Simon, 1876 from southern Spain and redescription of an enigmatic Phlegra species from northern Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 5162: 557-575 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
17-01-2024 Datasheet update Detail
12-07-2022 Image insert
11-07-2022 Distribution insert Detail