Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Attulus  Simon, 1889   23 species

Attulus ammophilus (Thorell, 1875)

Description
Female

Prosoma dark brown, eye field darker. Prosoma length: 2.0 mm. Sternum dark brown with white hairs. Chelicerae brown, promargin with 3 small teeth. Legs yellow with brown rings. Opisthosoma: dorsum greyish, covered with white hairs, venter lighter.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Romania, Ukraine, Russia (Europe), Turkey, Caucasus, Iran, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Afghanistan. Indroduced to Canada, USA
Phenology
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Distribution List
Armenia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Georgia   (Seropian et al., 2023b) ||| Romania   (Thorell, 1875c) ||| Russia, Central   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Logunov D V (2023a) On the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Iran collected by Antoine Senglet (1927–2015). Arachnology 19: 732-768 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

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

Prószyński J (1987) Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae 2. Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoly Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej, Siedlcach, 172 pp. pdf

Seropian A, Bulbulashvili N, Otto S, Krammer H-J, Kachlishvili N, Datunashvili A (2023b) Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus barcode of life project. Part II. Caucasiana 2: 231-297 pdf

Thorell T (1875c) Descriptions of several European and North African spiders. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 13(5): 1-204 pdf

Wesołowska W (1996) New data on the jumping spiders of Turkmenistan (Aranei Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 5(1/2): 17-53 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

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