Icius hamatus (C. L. Koch, 1846)
Description
Male
Prosoma dorsally rusty brown, black margin with white hairs, white hairs in front and laterally. Triangular white areas anteriorly and posteriorly of fovea. Sides anteriorly light orange, retrolateral edges brown with black hairs. Opisthosoma dorsally with dark stain pattern with dense orange hairs and three white longitudinal bands, laterally with dark longitudinal band. Palp red-brown, tip of cymbium lighter, tegulum dark brown.
Body length male: 5.4 mmFemale
Prosoma as in male, but with light grey hairs. Opisthosoma dorsally beige with beige-orange-black hairs and lateral reticulate pattern which is getting darker posteriomedially.
Body length female: 5.1-6.5 mmAdditional information
Common in citrus groves
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Metzner 1999)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Metzner 1999)
Pedipalp with tibia, patella and femur, dorso-lateral view
(Breitling 2020)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Rozwałka & Czaja 2021b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Rozwałka & Czaja 2021b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Killick 2023)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Seropian et al. 2023b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Seropian et al. 2023b)
Habitus
(Metzner 1999)
Habitus
(Stanković unpubl.)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Rozwałka & Czaja 2021b)
Epigyne
(Metzner 1999)
Epigyne
(Tomasiewicz & Wesołowska 2006)
Epigyne
(Rozwałka & Czaja 2021b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Metzner 1999)
Vulva
(Tomasiewicz & Wesołowska 2006)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Breitling 2020)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Rozwałka & Czaja 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
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Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362
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
Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144
Demircan N, Topçu A (2016) First records for spider fauna of the European part of Turkey (Araneae). Serket 15: 85-91
Hänggi A, Stäubli A, Heer X, Trivellone V, Pollini Paltrinieri L, Moretti M (2014) Eleven new spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) for Switzerland discovered in vineyards in Ticino - What are possible reasons? Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 87: 215-228
Killick T (2023) Some accidental imports reported by members of the British Spider Identification Facebook Group. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 156/SRS News 105: 6-9
Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Mestre L, Piñol J, Barrientos J A, Cama A, Espadaler X (2012) Effects of ant competition and bird predation on the spider assemblage of a citrus grove. Basic and Applied Ecology 13: 355-362
Metzner H (1999) Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279
Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna].
Naumova M, Blagoev G, Deltshev D (2021) Fifty spider species new to the Bulgarian fauna, with a review of some dubious species (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 4984: 228-257
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
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
Rozwałka R, Czaja M (2021b) [New observations of Icius hamatus (C.L. Koch, 1846) (Araneae: Salticidae) in Poland]. Acta Entomologica Silesiana 29(9): 1-4
Rozwałka R, Rutkowski T, Bielak-Bielecki P (2017a) New data on introduced and rare synanthropic spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) in Poland (II). Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, Lublin-Polonia 71: 59-85
Schäfer M (2015) Ein Beitrag zur Springspinnenfauna der Balearen mit dem Erstnachweis von Heliophanus stylifer für Europa (Araneae, Salticidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 49: 62-67
Schäfer M, Deepen-Wieczorek A (2014) Erstnachweis der Springspinne Icius hamatus (Salticidae, Araneae) für Deutschland. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 47: 49-50
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
Stanković B (2010) Two new species of Salticidae (Aranea) for the fauna of Serbia. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum 3: 133-136
Stanković B (2012) Contribution to the knowledge of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from vicinity of Jagodina, Central Serbia. Biologica Nyssana 3: 37-42
Stanković B (unpubl.) .
Tomasiewicz B, Wesołowska W (2006) Icius hamatus (Salticidae, Araneae) in Poland? Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 75: 339-342
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
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