Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Pellenes  Simon, 1876   30 species

Pellenes flavipalpis  (Lucas, 1853)

Description
Male

Prosoma dorsally dark brown with black margin, eye field black, head plate with black bristles. Opisthosoma dorsally dark brown with red-brown hairs and white equatorial band, median, anteriorly widened band of white scaly hairs. Palp dark brown, patella with white hairs dorsally in distal region, tip of cymbium lighter.

Body length male: 3-3.5 mm
Female

Prosoma and opisthosoma almost as in male. Epigyne: reversed U-shaped epigyneal hood medially narrowed.

Body length female: 4.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece (incl. Crete), Turkey, Cyprus, Lebanon, Israel
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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.

Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Greece / Crete   (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024a; Lecigne, 2011) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Lecigne S (2011) Inventaire aranéologique dans la Province d’Izmir (Turquie) (Arachnida, Araneae). Le bulletin d'Arthropoda 46: 5-83 pdf

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

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