Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Habrocestum  Simon, 1876   15 species

Habrocestum bovaei  (Lucas, 1846)

Description
Male

Prosoma black, without spots or white lines on dark ground, posterior sides white and bordered by a straight line. Face red, small red spot behind third eye row. Opisthosoma with distinct design.

Female

Prosoma dark red-brown, pars cephalica more blackish. Sternum pale yellow. Opisthosoma yellow, dorsally pale brown with a semicircular, pale strip anteriorly, with two pairs of pale round spots in anterior half, two pale accents between the posterior spots followed by three small horizontal lines.

Body length female: 6 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Morocco, Algeria, Spain
Phenology
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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.

Algeria   (Denis, 1937b; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Morocco   (Simon, 1909) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Denis J (1937b) On a collection of spiders from Algeria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 106: 1027-1060 pdf

Lecigne S (2012) Inventaire aranéologique (Arachnida, Araneae) dans la ville d’Estepona (Malaga, Espagne). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 21: 161-167 pdf

Prószyński J (1987) Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae 2. Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoly Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej, Siedlcach, 172 pp. pdf

Simon E (1909) Etude sur les arachnides recueillis au Maroc par M. Martinez de la Escalera en 1907. Memorias de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural (6) 1: 5-43 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
10-06-2022 Image insert
10-06-2022 Distribution update Detail
19-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail
24-07-2015 Image insert
20-08-2013 Image insert