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Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Pellenes  Simon, 1876   30 species

Pellenes epularis  (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035273

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Description
Male

Prosoma dorsally brown with black margin with white hairs. Head plate a bit darker, eye field black. Opisthosoma dorsally brown with light puncturing and light sandy hairs, medially and laterally with continuous wide, white band. Palp: Femoral apophysis with three edges, distally truncated. Cymbium dorsally with small lateral projection.

Body length male: 2.9-3.5 mm
Female

Slightly larger than males but of similar colouration. Epigyne with central pocket.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece to China, Namibia, South Africa
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Metzner 1999)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Metzner 1999)

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male Pedipalp, frontal view
(Cantarella & Alicata 2002)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Schäfer 2020)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Schäfer 2020)

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male Palpal tibia, lateral view
(Cantarella & Alicata 2002)

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male Habitus
(Metzner 1999)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Wesołowska 2006)

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female Epigyne
(Schäfer 2020)

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.

Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Greece / Crete   (no references) ||| Russia, Central   (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (no references) |||
References

Allahverdi H, Gündüz G (2014) A new record for the araneofauna of Turkey (Araneae: Salticidae). Serket 14: 19-21 pdf

Cantarella T, Alicata P (2002) On the genus Pellenes Simon 1876 (Araneae, Salticidae): synonymies and description of a new Italian species. Bollettino dell'Accademia Gioenia di Scienze Naturali 35: 571-581 pdf

Kuzmin E A, Azarkina G N (2016) Jumping spiders (Aranei: Salticidae) in Ulyanovsk oblast. Biologiya – Tomsk State University Journal of Biology 1(33): 82-101 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.

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Schäfer M (2020) Ein Beitrag zur Springspinnenfauna (Araneae: Salticidae) der griechischen Insel Kreta mit der Erstbeschreibung von Pellenes florii sp. nov. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 72-87 pdf

Wesołowska W (2006) Jumping spiders from the Brandberg massif in Namibia (Araneae: Salticidae). African Entomology 14: 225-256 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
24-04-2020 Image insert
19-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail
06-06-2016 Distribution update Detail
11-04-2016 Image insert
27-05-2014 Image insert
24-05-2014 Distribution update Detail