Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Icius  Simon, 1876   8 species

Icius crassipes (Simon, 1868)

Description
Male

Prosoma red-brown, with white scales, eyes surrounded by black. Prosoma length: 2.10 mm. Sternum yellow, tinged with brown, covered with white hairs. Chelicerae pink-yellow. Leg I yellowish brown. Legs II-IV yellow, sides of femora and patellae tinged with brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum and sides yellowish brown, with whites spots, with a white line around the dorsal field, venter yellow. Spinnerets brownish.

Body length male: 3.9-4.6 mm
Female

Colouration as in males, but lighter. Palps yellow. Opisthosoma without the white line around the edges of dorsum.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain, Algeria, Tunisia
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Distribution List
Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Kmira et al., 2025) |||
References

Alicata P, Cantarella T (1994) The Euro-mediterranean species of Icius (Araneae, Salticidae): a critical revision and description of two new species. Animalia 20: 111-131 pdf

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

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 pdf

Logunov D V (2015) Taxonomic-faunistic notes on the jumping spiders of the Mediterranean (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24: 33-85 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
06-11-2025 Distribution update Detail
16-07-2015 Image insert
16-07-2015 Datasheet update Detail
15-04-2014 Image insert