Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Chalcoscirtus  Bertkau, 1880   11 species

Chalcoscirtus brevicymbialis Wunderlich, 1980

Description
Male

Tibial apophysis triangular. Embolus short, robust, tip rotated, semicircular at most. Prosoma dark brown, sometimes with a purple shining (legs as well), Legs black-brown, femora somewhat lighter. Opisthosoma: dorsum dark brown, scutum covers opithosoma completely.

Body length male: 1.85-2.4 mm
Female

Epigyne with broad entrance ducts bent at right angle. Prosoma dark brown. Legs dark grey, femora with 2 light longitudinal stripes dorsally. Opisthosoma dark grey dorsally.

Body length female: 1.85-2.4 mm
Additional information

On warm slopes

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Central Europe, Italy, Russia (Europe), Kazakhstan
Figures
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   (Wunderlich, 1980c) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Kozminykh, 2016) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) |||
References

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 pdf

Gajdoš P, Svatoň J, Sloboda J (1999) Katalóg pavúkov Slovenska. Catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Ústav kr. ekol. SAV, Bratislava, 337 pp.

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

Kozminykh V (2016) Data to the spider fauna (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Orenburg area. Innovatsii v Nauke 52(3): 11-27 pdf

Logunov D V, Marusik Y M (1999) A brief review of the genus Chalcoscirtus Bertkau, 1880 in the faunas of Central Asia and the Caucasus (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 7: 205-226 pdf

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

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html 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

Wunderlich J (1980c) Zur Gattung Chalcoscirtus Bertkau 1880, mit einer Neubeschreibung (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 60: 355-358 pdf

Updates
12-11-2025 Distribution update Detail
24-01-2024 Distribution update Detail
03-05-2018 Image insert
11-02-2014 Image insert