Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Pseudicius  Simon, 1885   11 species

Pseudicius badius (Simon, 1868)

Description
Male

Prosoma and opisthosoma as in P. encarpatus. Inner side of femur I apically with 1+5 spines. Tibial apophysis broad and blunt, not reaching the lateral tegular process.

Body length male: 4.5-4.8 mm
Female

Prosoma dorsally as in male but with dense light grey hairs. Opisthosoma as in male, dorsally lighter.

Body length female: 5.0-6.9 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France (Corsica), Italy to Iran
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Distribution List
Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Spain  Removed (Miñano & Tamajón, 2017) |||
References

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

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 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

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

Metzner H (1999) Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279 pdf

Miñano J, Tamajón Gómez R (2017) Descripción de una nueva especie de Afraflacilla Berland & Millot, 1941 (Araneae: Salticidae) del área del Mediterráneo occidental. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 71-81 pdf

Prószyński J (2003) Salticidae (Araneae) of the Levant. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 53: 1-180 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
11-11-2025 Distribution update Detail
28-01-2020 Datasheet update Detail
28-01-2020 Distribution update Detail
19-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail
15-01-2015 Image insert
15-04-2013 Distribution update Detail