Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Macaroeris  Wunderlich, 1992   5 species

Macaroeris flavicomis (Simon, 1885)

Description
Female

Prosoma light brown, densely covered with light yellow hairs; Chelicerae red-brown, proximal third densely covered with white hairs; Sternum orange-brown; Legs yellow; Opisthosoma light beige with dark pattern, with 6 white spots posteriorly.

Body length female: 5.7 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Croatia/Montenegro: The site from "Dalmatia" by Logunov (2015) is situeated in Montenegro and not in Croatia
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain to Azerbaijan and Israel
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Distribution List
Albania   (Deltshev et al., 2011b; Blick, 2018) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia   (Logunov, 2015) ||| France   (Logunov, 2015) ||| France / Corsica   (Logunov, 2015) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Libya   (Logunov, 2015) ||| Moldova   (Vasiliev & Mikhailov, 2023) ||| North Macedonia   (Deltshev et al., 2013) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) ||| Slovenia   (Logunov, 2015) ||| Spain   (Logunov & Schäfer, 2025) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Logunov, 2015; Kunt et al., 2012) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

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) pdf

Blick T (2018) A small collection of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the River Vjosa, Albania – with an updated spider checklist of Albania. Acta ZooBot Austria 155: 213-232 pdf

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

Deltshev C, Komnenov M, Blagoev G, Georgiev T, Lazarov S, Stojkoska E, Naumova M (2013) Faunistic diversity of spiders (Araneae) in Galichitsa Mountain (FYR Macedonia). Biodiversity Data Journal 1(e977): 1-70 pdf

Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Kunt K B, Kaya R S, Özkütük R S, Danişman T, Yağmur E A, Elverici M (2012) Additional notes on the spider fauna of Turkey (Araneae). Turkish Journal of Zoology 36: 637-651 pdf

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

Logunov D V, Schäfer M (2025) A review of the jumping spider genus Macaroeris Wunderlich, 1992 (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae: Dendryphantini). Arachnology 20: 364-409 pdf

Metzner H (1999) Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

Vasiliev A I, Mikhailov K G (2023) Annotated checklist of spiders (Araneae) of the Republic of Moldova. Invertebrate Zoology 20: 307-342 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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