Asianellus festivus (C. L. Koch, 1834)
Description
Tibial apophysis with 2 unequally long processes. Embolus thin. Epigyne with straight posterior margin, entrance ducts near posterior epigynal margin. Prosoma dark brown, female: dark brown. Male: red-brown. Sternum dark on the side, otherwise bright. Legs yellow. Femur black. Metatarsus dark. Tarsus dark. Opisthosoma female: dorsally yellowish with dark stripes in the middle. Male: dorsally dark grey with 4-5 bright stripes, ventrally light yellow.
Body length male: 5.95-8 mmBody length female: 8.0 mm
Additional information
On warm, sunny rock fields/slopes and in grass
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Żabka 1997)
Pedipalp
(Roberts 1998)
Pedipalp
(Żabka 1997)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Stanković 2019)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Stanković 2019)
Tip of embolus
(Logunov & Hęciak 1996)
Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Logunov & Hęciak 1996)
Prosoma, frontal view
(Logunov & Hęciak 1996)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Logunov & Hęciak 1996)
Habitus
(Żabka 1997)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1998)
Epigyne
(Żabka 1997)
Epigyne
(Logunov & Hęciak 1996)
Epigyne
(Logunov & Hęciak 1996)
Epigyne
(Stanković 2019)
Vulva
(Żabka 1997)
Vulva
(Logunov & Hęciak 1996)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Logunov & Hęciak 1996)
Habitus
(Żabka 1997)
Habitus, frontal view
(Stanković 2019)
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
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Biteniekytė M, Rėlys V (2012) The checklist of Lithuanian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Biologija 57: 148-158
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)
Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69
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Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144
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
Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91
Kreuels M, Staudt A, Christian S (2019) Die Spinnenfauna von Luxemburg – eine Zusammenstellung der Nachweise aus den Jahren 1906-2018 (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes luxembourgeois 121: 203-230
Logunov D V (2015) Taxonomic-faunistic notes on the jumping spiders of the Mediterranean (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24: 33-85
Logunov D V, Hęciak S (1996) Asianellus, a new genus of the subfamily Aelurillinae (Araneae: Salticidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 26: 103-117
Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna].
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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
Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App
Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.
Roberts M J (1998) Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp.
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
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
Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184
Stanković B (2019) Asianellus festivus (C.L. Koch, 1834) (Araneae: Salticidae) the first record from Serbia. Acta Entomologica Serbica 24: 101-104
Vasiliev A I, Mikhailov K G (2023) Annotated checklist of spiders (Araneae) of the Republic of Moldova. Invertebrate Zoology 20: 307-342
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
Żabka M (1997) Salticidae: Pajaki skaczace (Arachnida: Araneae) (Salticidae of Poland). Fauna Polski (Fauna Poloniae) 19: 1-188
Zarikian N (2020) A contribution to the checklist of the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Armenia. Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum 16: 193-202
Updates
| 10-06-2023 | Distribution update | Detail |
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