Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Pellenes  Simon, 1876   31 species

Pellenes lapponicus (Sundevall, 1833)

Description

Tibial apophysis strongly bent and widened to a thin plate. Epigyne little structured.

Body length male: 6.0-7.0 mm
Body length female: 6.0-7.0 mm
Additional information

In low vegetation, in the Alps up to 2600 m

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): North America, Alps (France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy), Northern Europe, Russia (Europe, South Siberia)
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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.

Austria   (Thaler, 1997c) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Russia, Northern   (no references) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) |||
References

Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244 pdf

Cantarella T, Alicata P (2002) On the genus Pellenes Simon 1876 (Araneae, Salticidae): synonymies and description of a new Italian species. Bollettino dell'Accademia Gioenia di Scienze Naturali 35: 571-581 pdf

Danilov S N, Logunov D V (1994) Faunistic review of the jumping spiders of Transbaikalia (Aranei Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 2(4): 25-39 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm pdf

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001] pdf

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

Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12 pdf

Paquin P, Dupérré N (2006) The spiders of Quebec: update, additions and corrections. Zootaxa 1133: 1-37 pdf

Prószyński J (1991) in Heimer S, Nentwig W: Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Parey Hamburg pdf

Thaler K (1981c) Bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde in Nordtirol (Österreich) (Arachnida: Aranei). Veröffentlichungen des Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck 61: 105-150 pdf

Thaler K (1997c) Beiträge zur Spinnenfauna von Nordtirol - 4: Dionycha (Anyphaenidae, Clubionidae, Heteropodidae, Liocranidae, Philodromidae, Salticidae, Thomisidae, Zoridae). Veröffentlichungen des Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck 77: 233-285 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
13-11-2025 Distribution update Detail
03-05-2018 Image insert
11-04-2016 Image insert