Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Salticus  Latreille, 1804   18 species

Salticus unciger  (Simon, 1868)

Description

Male palp with short process next to tip of embolus. Tibial apophysis with a round tip. Epigyne with ± triangular median region. Vulva with triangular receptaculum seminis. Entrance ducts situated on margin of epigyne.

Body length male: 4-5 mm
Body length female: 5-6 mm
Additional information

northernmost occurrence in Tessin (CH)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): France, Switzerland, Italy, Malta, Slovenia, Albania, Greece
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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.

Albania   (Deltshev et al., 2011b) ||| Croatia   (Drakšić & Katušić, 2011) ||| France   (no references) ||| Greece   (Metzner, 1999) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Malta   (Pfliegler et al., 2017) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Switzerland   (no references) |||
References

Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144 pdf

Drakšić M, Katušić L (2011) Preliminary results on the spider (Araneae) fauna of NP Kornati (Croatia). Entomologia Croatica 15: 163-175 pdf

Hansen H (1986) Die Salticidae der coll. Canestrini (Arachnida: Araneae). Lavori della Società Veneziana di Scienze Naturali 11: 97-120 pdf

Hansen H (1994) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Biologie von Salticus unciger (Simon, 1868) und S. mutabilis Lucas, 1846 (Arachnida: Araneae: salticidae). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 43: 129-146 pdf

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

Kulczyński W (1907) Fragmenta arachnologica. VIII, IX. Bulletin International de l'Academie des Sciences de Cracovie 1907: 570-596 pdf

Metzner H (1999) Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Pesarini C (unpubl.)

Pfliegler W A, Schönhofer A, Niedbała W, Vella P, Sciberras A, Vella A (2017) New records of mites (Acari) and harvestmen (Opiliones) from Malta with a preliminary checklist of Maltese Arachnida. Soil Organisms 89: 85-110 pdf

Prószyński J (1991) in Heimer S, Nentwig W: Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Parey Hamburg pdf

Schäfer M (2021) Ein Beitrag zur Springspinnenfauna (Araneae: Salticidae) der griechischen Insel Korfu mit vier Erstnachweisen für die Insel und Anmerkungen zur Gattung Salticus. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 61: 84-97 pdf

Thaler K (1983c) Salticus unciger (Simon) und Synageles lepidus Kulczynski, zwei für die Schweiz neue Springspinnen. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 56: 295-301 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
29-04-2021 Image insert
26-04-2021 Distribution insert Detail
03-05-2018 Image insert
13-05-2014 Distribution update Detail