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 mmBody length female: 2.4-2.9 mm
Additional information
(sub)alpine, in meadows, scree and heathland with small bushes
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Thaler 1981c)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Żabka 1997)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Logunov & Kronestedt 2003)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Logunov & Kronestedt 2003)
Pedipalp
(Żabka 1997)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Chvátalová & Buchar 2002)
Pedipalp, lateral view
(Chvátalová & Buchar 2002)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Gack unpubl.)
Embolic division, ventral view
(Logunov & Kronestedt 2003)
Habitus
(Żabka 1997)
Epigyne
(Żabka 1997)
Epigyne
(Logunov & Kronestedt 2003)
Epigyne
(Logunov & Kronestedt 1997)
Epigyne
(Logunov & Kronestedt 2003)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Chvátalová & Buchar 2002)
Vulva
(Żabka 1997)
Vulva
(Logunov & Kronestedt 1997)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Chvátalová & Buchar 2002)
Habitus
(Żabka 1997)
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.
References
Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244 
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
Szűts T, Szinetár C, Samu F, Szita É (2003) Check list of the Hungarian Salticidae with biogeographical notes. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 25: 45-61
Thaler K (1981c) Bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde in Nordtirol (Österreich) (Arachnida: Aranei). Veröffentlichungen des Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck 61: 105-150
WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2
Żabka M (1997) Salticidae: Pajaki skaczace (Arachnida: Araneae) (Salticidae of Poland). Fauna Polski (Fauna Poloniae) 19: 1-188