Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Phlegra  Simon, 1876   18 species

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

Beschreibung
Männchen

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.

Körperlänge Männchen: 5.8-6.9 mm
Weibchen

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

Körperlänge Weibchen: 6.5-8.2 mm
Zusätzliche Informationen

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).

Verbreitung
  Vorkommen
  kein Nachweis
Weltweite Verbreitung (WSC 2026): Spain, Morocco
The observations made suggest it has an annual lifespan. The first adults begin to appear September–October.
Abbildungen
Verbreitungsnachweise

"No reference" bedeutet nicht, dass die Art in diesem Land nicht vorkommt, sondern dass wir die Referenz hierfür noch nicht eingefügt haben. Wir arbeiten daran.

Morocco   (del Canto & del Canto, 2025) ||| Spain   (Azarkina et al., 2022) |||
Literatur

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

Canto L del, Canto R del (2025) Presencia de Phlegra blaugrana Azarkina, Pérez-Gómez & Sánchez-García, 2022 (Araneae: Salticidae) en el norte de Marruecos. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 47: 175-176 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
30-12-2025 Distribution insert Detail
17-01-2024 Datasheet update Detail
12-07-2022 Image insert
11-07-2022 Distribution insert Detail