Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Pellenes  Simon, 1876   30 species

Pellenes moreanus  Metzner, 1999

Description
Male

Prosoma dorsally black-brown, head plate with dark brown hairs and black bristles, light grey band behind prosterior lateral eyes. Opisthosoma dorsally black-brown with distinct white median stripe and lateral white bands. Palp: cymbium with distinct excavation distally, femoral apophysis wide.

Body length male: 3.8-4.2 mm
Female

Prosoma dorsally black-brown, head plate with black bristles, anteriorly and laterally dense bristles, anteriorly and laterally with dense hairs. Opisthosoma dorsally black-brown with light grey equatorial band and light median stripe. Epigyne with strongly sclerotized hood and clearly visible bursae.

Body length female: 4.8-6 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): North Macedonia, Greece, Turkey
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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.

Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Coşar & Danışman, 2014; Danışman et al., 2024a) |||
References

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

Coşar İ, Danışman T (2014) A new salticid spider record from Turkey (Araneae, Salticidae). Serket 14: 80-82 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Deltshev C, Komnenov M, Blagoev G, Georgiev T, Lazarov S, Stojkoska E, Naumova M (2013) Faunistic diversity of spiders (Araneae) in Galichitsa Mountain (FYR Macedonia). Biodiversity Data Journal 1(e977): 1-70 pdf

Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267 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 (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
17-11-2024 Distribution update Detail
24-04-2020 Image insert
19-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail
27-11-2014 Distribution update Detail
24-09-2013 Distribution update Detail