Talavera aequipes (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871)
Description
Male palpal tibia with visible distal margin, rounded. Epigyne round. Vulva with narrow ducts. Prosoma yellow to light brown, with black eye region, eyes of anterior row margined with white scales. Sternum variable, from yellow to yellow-brown striped to completely brown. Legs bright, darkly annulated. Opisthosoma with variable pattern, like sternum. Dorsally brown with bright chevrons, laterally bright. Spinnerets brown.
Body length male: 2.3-2.6 mmBody length female: 2.3-2.7 mm
Additional information
In grass and low vegetation, mostly in dry, sunny, and also partly sandy regions, Trans-Eurasian in temperate areas
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Brændegaard 1966)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Żabka 1997)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Locket & Millidge 1951)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Logunov & Kronestedt 2003)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Logunov & Kronestedt 2003)
Pedipalp
(Brændegaard 1966)
Pedipalp
(Roberts 1998)
Pedipalp
(Żabka 1997)
Pedipalp
(Logunov & Kronestedt 2003)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Gack unpubl.)
Habitus
(Żabka 1997)
Epigyne
(Brændegaard 1966)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1998)
Epigyne
(Żabka 1997)
Epigyne
(Logunov & Kronestedt 2003)
Epigyne
(Logunov & Kronestedt 2003)
Epigyne
(Logunov & Kronestedt 2003)
Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1951)
Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Tutar & Yağmur 2023)
Vulva
(Żabka 1997)
Vulva
(Logunov & Kronestedt 2003)
Vulva
(Logunov & Kronestedt 2003)
Vulva
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Habitus
(Żabka 1997)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Habitus, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)
Habitus
(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.
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