Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Talavera  G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1909   12 species

Talavera thorelli (Kulczyński, 1891)

Description

Cymbium proximally yellow, with white hairs. Embolic tip slightly bent toward dorsal. Prosoma chestnut-brown, with yellow lateral stripes, eye region darker, dorsally covered with white scales. Sternum yellow-brown. Chelicerae yellow. Legs yellow, annulated with dark brown. Male: leg I anteriorly black. Femur brown. Opisthosoma dorsally grey-brown with light chevrons, ventrally yellow-brown. Spinnerets brown.

Body length male: 1.8-1.9 mm
Body length female: 2.1-2.8 mm
Additional information

found in different dry woodland and meadow habitats

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Europe to Central Asia, Mongolia
Figures
Distribution List
Austria   (Thaler, 1997c) ||| Belgium   (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Estonia   (Sammet et al., 2023) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Ukhova et al., 2024; Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Spain   (Fernández-Pérez, 2016; Branco et al., 2019) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
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