Leptorchestes peresi (Simon, 1868)
Description
Male
Prosoma brown to dark brown, eyes surrounded by black or eye field completely black. Prosoma length: 1.8-2.4 mm. Chelicerae long, brown, with 2 teeth on promargin, retromargin toothless. Sternum brown. Legs brown, darker streaks on dorsal side of femora, patellae and tibiae I-II. Opisthosoma brown, posterior part darker, white line along constriction, venter brown, with a white triangular patch behind epigastric furrow.
Body length male: 5.4 mmFemale
Prosoma length: 2.0-2.5 mm. Colouration as in males, sometimes eye field black with metallic sheen.
Body length female: 6 mmAdditional information
Figures by Metzner (1999) published under L. mutilloides.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Metzner 1999)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Metzner 1999)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bosselaers 2018)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosselaers 2018)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Coşar & Danışman 2021b)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Coşar & Danışman 2021b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Coşar & Danışman 2021b)
Pedipalp, ventro-prolateral view
(Coşar & Danışman 2021b)
Pedipalp, ventro-retrolateral view
(Coşar & Danışman 2021b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Fusco et al. 2025)
Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Habitus
(Metzner 1999)
Epigyne
(Metzner 1999)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Epigyne
(Bosselaers 2018)
Epigyne
(Fusco et al. 2025)
Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Metzner 1999)
Vulva
(Wesołowska & Szeremeta 2001)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Coşar & Danışman 2021b)
Vulva, ventral view
(Coşar & Danışman 2021b)
Distribution List
"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.
References
Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 
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
Bosselaers J (2018) Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Gavarres (Catalonia, Spain) and the adjacent coastal region - part I: 2012-2013. Newsletter of the Belgian arachnological Society 33(Suppl.): 1-103
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Coşar İ, Danışman T (2021b) Two new records of jumping spiders from Turkey and a new locality of Heliophanus feltoni (Araneae: Salticidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 61: 98-103
Fusco T, Cantone S, Di Giulio A (2025) A new species of the genus Leptorchestes Thorell, 1870 from the Pantalica Natural Reserve (Sicily, Italy) (Araneae: Salticidae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 177-187
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
Logunov D V (2015) Taxonomic-faunistic notes on the jumping spiders of the Mediterranean (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24: 33-85
Metzner H (1999) Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279
Metzner H (2020) Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Accessed 01 June 2020. Online at http://www.jumping-spiders.com
Wesołowska W, Szeremeta M (2001) A revision of the ant-like salticid genera Enoplomischus Giltay, 1931, Kima Peckham & Peckham, 1902 and Leptorchestes Thorell, 1870 (Araneae: Salticidae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 32: 217-240
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2