Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Habrocestum  Simon, 1876   15 species

Habrocestum egaeum Metzner, 1999

Description
Male

Prosoma dorsally rusty brown, median white hairy spot. Opisthosoma dorsally black with beige equatorial band. Palp: With black, white and yellow hair tuft on patella, cymbium red-brown with black hairs.

Body length male: 5.4-5.9 mm
Female

Prosoma red-brown, posteriorly lighter. Opisthsoma dorsal sandy, posterior half with T-shaped design. Epigyne with two distinctly separated long-oval grooves.

Body length female: 6.13-7.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece (Islands, Crete), Turkey
Figures
Distribution List
Greece   (Bosmans et al., 2009; Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans et al., 2013; Logunov, 2001b) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Logunov, 2015; Danışman et al., 2025a) ||| Turkey (Europe)   (Demircan & Topçu, 2016; Demircan Aksan & Topçu, 2022c) |||
References

Bosmans R, Baert L, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H, Maelfait J-P, Van Keer J (2009) Spiders of Lesbos (Greece). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 24(suppl.): 1-70 pdf

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Kronestedt T, Alderweireldt M, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H (2013) Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek island of Crete. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28 (Suppl. 1): 1-147 pdf

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

Demircan Aksan N, Topçu A (2022c) A preliminary checklist of the spider fauna of European Türkiye. Serket 19: 39-56 pdf

Demircan N, Topçu A (2016) First records for spider fauna of the European part of Turkey (Araneae). Serket 15: 85-91 pdf

Logunov D V (2001b) New and poorly known species of the jumping spiders (Aranei: Salticidae) from Afghanistan, Iran and Crete. Arthropoda Selecta 10: 59-66 pdf

Logunov D V (2015) Taxonomic-faunistic notes on the jumping spiders of the Mediterranean (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24: 33-85 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 (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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