Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Salticus  Latreille, 1804   19 species

Salticus tricinctus (C. L. Koch, 1846)

Description
Male

Prosoma length: 2 mm.

Female

Prosoma black, dull, 2 white longitidinal bands and in the anterior part a white transverse band. Prosoma length: 2.7 mm. Sternum black. Legs yellow-brown, femora irregularly spotted with black-brown, patellae to metatarsi with black-brown stripes, tarsi yellowish. Opisthosoma black-brown, suffused with green, with yellowish scales, dorsum with a white arcuate line and 2 white longitudinal lines.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Turkey, Greece sub S. marenzelleri
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Mediterranean to Central Asia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan
Phenology
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Distribution List
Armenia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Georgia   (Seropian et al., 2023b) ||| Greece   (Bosmans et al., 2009) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
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

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 (1992a) Salticidae of the Middle Asia (Aranei). I. New species from the genera Heliophanus, Salticus and Sitticus, with notes on new faunistic records of the family. Arthropoda Selecta 1(1): 51-67 pdf

Nosek A (1905) Araneiden, Opilionen und Chernetiden. In: Penther A, Zederbauer E (eds) Ergebnisse einer naturwissenschaftlichen Reise zum Erdschias-Dagh (Kleinasien). Annalen des Kaiserlich-Königlichen Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums in Wien 20: 114-154 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

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 (2003) Salticidae (Araneae) of the Levant. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 53: 1-180 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

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
17-11-2024 Distribution update Detail
07-02-2024 Image insert
21-12-2023 Distribution insert Detail
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16-07-2015 Distribution update Detail