Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Attulus  Simon, 1889   23 species

Attulus zimmermanni (Simon, 1877)

Description
Male

Prosoma red-brown, with 2 longitudinal stripes consisting of white hairs. Legs bright yellowish red-brown. Opisthosoma grey-brown.

Embolus at its base distinctly separated from bulbus.

Body length male: 4.0-5.0 mm
Female

Epigyne with inversely V-like formed groove.

Body length female: 4.0-5.0 mm
Additional information

On rocky and sandy ground.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Belarus: record of C. atricapillus counted here, as there are no mountains, which could be a habitat of atricapillus
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Europe, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, China
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Austria   (Thaler, 1997c) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Belarus   (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Denmark   (Scharff & Gudik-Sørensen, 2006) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Montenegro   (Naumova et al., 2019a) ||| North Macedonia   (Blagoev, 2002) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Russia, Central   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Kronestedt & Logunov, 2003) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022; Ponomarev & Khnykin, 2013) ||| Serbia   (Deltshev et al., 2003b) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Logunov, 2015; Danışman et al., 2025a) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
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