Habrocestum graecum Dalmas, 1920
Description
Male
Prosoma dark brown with white median hair stripe. Opisthosoma dorsally black with fine light punctations and white equatorial band, posterior third with white T-shaped spot and median black chevron pattern. Palp yellow-orange, cymbium darker and with white tip and dense white hairs. Embolus bent distally to cymbium. Tibial apophysis hook-shaped.
Body length male: 4.6-5.5 mmFemale
Prosoma brown dorsally. Opisthosoma dorsally yellow-beige with black pattern, indistinct median band anteriorly and 4 black spots posteriorly.
Body length female: 6.2-7.4 mmDistribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Metzner 1999)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Metzner 1999)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Castellucci et al. 2022)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Castellucci et al. 2022)
Habitus
(Metzner 1999)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Castellucci et al. 2022)
Epigyne
(Metzner 1999)
Epigyne
(Castellucci et al. 2022)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Metzner 1999)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Castellucci et al. 2022)
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
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 
Castellucci F, Caroli M, Simeon E, Kulczycki A, Piccinini A, Luchetti A, Legittimo C M (2022) A new trans-Ionian spider species for the Italian fauna: Habrocestum graecum Dalmas, 1920 (Araneae, Salticidae). Biogeographia 37(a023): 1-7
Metzner H (1999) Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279
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