Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Pellenes  Simon, 1876   31 species

Pellenes lapponicus (Sundevall, 1833)

Description

Tibial apophysis strongly bent and widened to a thin plate. Epigyne little structured.

Body length male: 6.0-7.0 mm
Body length female: 6.0-7.0 mm
Additional information

In low vegetation, in the Alps up to 2600 m

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): North America, Alps (France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy), Northern Europe, Russia (Europe, South Siberia)
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Distribution List
Austria   (Thaler, 1997c) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Russia, Northern   (no references) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) |||
References

Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244 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

Danilov S N, Logunov D V (1994) Faunistic review of the jumping spiders of Transbaikalia (Aranei Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 2(4): 25-39 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

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm pdf

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001] pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12 pdf

Paquin P, Dupérré N (2006) The spiders of Quebec: update, additions and corrections. Zootaxa 1133: 1-37 pdf

Prószyński J (1991) in Heimer S, Nentwig W: Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Parey Hamburg pdf

Thaler K (1981c) Bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde in Nordtirol (Österreich) (Arachnida: Aranei). Veröffentlichungen des Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck 61: 105-150 pdf

Thaler K (1997c) Beiträge zur Spinnenfauna von Nordtirol - 4: Dionycha (Anyphaenidae, Clubionidae, Heteropodidae, Liocranidae, Philodromidae, Salticidae, Thomisidae, Zoridae). Veröffentlichungen des Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck 77: 233-285 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

Updates
13-11-2025 Distribution update Detail
03-05-2018 Image insert
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