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

Talavera monticola  (Kulczyński, 1884)

Description

Male palp with brown tegulum. Cymbium yellow, with white hairs. Embolus robust, ventrally bent. Prosoma light brown, eye region darker, clypeus white haired. Sternum brown. Chelicerae yellow, tinged with brown. Legs light brown, with annulations. Femur bluish brown. Opisthosoma brown with chevrons and spots. Spinnerets brown.

Body length male: 2.2-2.4 mm
Body length female: 2.4-2.9 mm
Additional information

(sub)alpine, in meadows, scree and heathland with small bushes

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Records from European Russia should be verified (see Logunov & Kronestedt, 2003)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Central, Southern Europe
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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   (Logunov & Kronestedt, 2003) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| France   (no references) ||| Germany   (Logunov & Kronestedt, 2003) ||| Hungary   (Szűts et al., 2003) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2006) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Romania   (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Northern   (no references) ||| Slovakia   (Logunov & Kronestedt, 1997) ||| Switzerland   (no references) |||
References

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

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Chvátalová I, Buchar J (2002) Distribution and habitat of Talavera aperta, T. milleri and T. thorelli in the Czech Republic (Araneae: Salticidae). Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 66: 3-11 pdf

Gack C (unpubl.)

Komnenov M (2006) New data on jumping spiders in the Republic of Macedonia with a complete checklist (Araneae: Salticidae). In: Deltshev, C. & Stoev, P. (eds.) European Arachnology 2005. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica Supplement 1: 301-314 pdf

Logunov D V, Kronestedt T (1997) A new Palearctic species of the genus Sitticus Simon, with notes on related species in the floricola group (Araneae, Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 10: 225-233 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

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html pdf

Szűts T, Szinetár C, Samu F, Szita É (2003) Check list of the Hungarian Salticidae with biogeographical notes. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 25: 45-61 pdf

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

Żabka M (1997) Salticidae: Pajaki skaczace (Arachnida: Araneae) (Salticidae of Poland). Fauna Polski (Fauna Poloniae) 19: 1-188 pdf

Updates
28-11-2023 Distribution update Detail
19-01-2021 Distribution update Detail
11-10-2017 Image insert
27-11-2016 Distribution update Detail