Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Ballus  C. L. Koch, 1850   5 species

Ballus armadillo  (Simon, 1871)

Description
Male

Prosoma dark with black patches around the eyes. Leg I with dark femur and tibia, remaining segments and legs II-IV light. Opisthosoma dark with chromatic pattern in posterior part.

Body length male: 2.5-3.0 mm
Female

Prosoma as in males. Legs uniformly light. Opisthosoma with chromatic pattern extending the whole length.

Body length female: 2.9-4.2 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): France (Corsica), Italy, Malta
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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.

Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Malta   (Rehfeldt & Cassar, 2024) |||
References

Alicata P, Cantarella T (1988) The genus Ballus: A revision of the European taxa described by Simon together with observations on the other species of the genus. Animalia 14: 35-63 pdf

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

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]. 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

Rehfeldt S, Cassar T (2024) A contribution to the arachnofauna (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones) of the Maltese Islands, with two new records for Europe. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 67: 18-47 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

Updates
21-06-2024 Image insert
17-06-2024 Distribution insert Detail
02-10-2014 Datasheet update Detail
02-10-2014 Image insert