Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Icius  Simon, 1876   8 species

Icius crassipes  (Simon, 1868)

Description
Male

Prosoma red-brown, with white scales, eyes surrounded by black. Prosoma length: 2.10 mm. Sternum yellow, tinged with brown, covered with white hairs. Chelicerae pink-yellow. Leg I yellowish brown. Legs II-IV yellow, sides of femora and patellae tinged with brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum and sides yellowish brown, with whites spots, with a white line around the dorsal field, venter yellow. Spinnerets brownish.

Body length male: 3.9-4.6 mm
Female

Colouration as in males, but lighter. Palps yellow. Opisthosoma without the white line around the edges of dorsum.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain, Algeria, Tunisia
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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.

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans, unpubl.) |||
References

Alicata P, Cantarella T (1994) The Euro-mediterranean species of Icius (Araneae, Salticidae): a critical revision and description of two new species. Animalia 20: 111-131 pdf

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

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 pdf

Logunov D V (2015) Taxonomic-faunistic notes on the jumping spiders of the Mediterranean (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24: 33-85 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
16-07-2015 Image insert
16-07-2015 Datasheet update Detail
15-04-2014 Image insert