Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Habrocestum  Simon, 1876   14 species

Habrocestum graecum  Dalmas, 1920

Description
Male

Prosoma dark brown with white median hair stripe. Opisthosoma dorsally black with fine light punctations and white equatorial band, posterior third with white T-shaped spot and median black chevron pattern. Palp yellow-orange, cymbium darker and with white tip and dense white hairs. Embolus bent distally to cymbium. Tibial apophysis hook-shaped.

Body length male: 4.6-5.5 mm
Female

Prosoma brown dorsally. Opisthosoma dorsally yellow-beige with black pattern, indistinct median band anteriorly and 4 black spots posteriorly.

Body length female: 6.2-7.4 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Italy, Greece
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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.

Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005; Metzner, 1999) ||| Italy   (Castellucci et al., 2022) |||
References

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

Castellucci F, Caroli M, Simeon E, Kulczycki A, Piccinini A, Luchetti A, Legittimo C M (2022) A new trans-Ionian spider species for the Italian fauna: Habrocestum graecum Dalmas, 1920 (Araneae, Salticidae). Biogeographia 37(a023): 1-7 pdf

Metzner H (1999) Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279 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
12-02-2023 Image insert
12-02-2023 Distribution insert Detail
12-02-2023 Distribution update Detail
19-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail