Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Synageles  Simon, 1876   10 species

Synageles albotrimaculatus  (Lucas, 1846)

Description

Male palp with 2 tibial apophyses. Tibial apophysis broad and flat, second apophysis pointed, needle-like, between first one and bulbus. Embolus short, thin, slightly bent. Epigyne oval with slight central depression. Vulva with additional glands at the beginning of fertilization ducts. Prosoma dark brown, with spotted eye field, comprising more than anterior half of prosoma. Sternum dark brown, oval. Chelicerae light brown, with one tooth. Leg I robust with slightly swollen tibia, tibia and anterior side of femur dark brown, otherwise leg I yellow, legs II-IV brighter, with partly darker longitudinal stripes. Opisthosoma elongated, almost black, dorsally with 2 bright scuta connected by bright transverse line. Spinnerets bright, grey brown.

Body length male: 1.3-1.6 mm
Body length female: 1.4-1.5 mm
Additional information

In holm oak forest with wisps of grass, location in swamp vegetation in Spain

Frequency: Rare

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

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans, 2003) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Coşar et al., 2014) |||
References

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 (2003) A checklist of the spiders of Tunisia, with description of a new species of Palliduphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Kaupia - Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte 12: 89-109 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

Coşar İ, Danışman T, Yildiran F A B (2014) The jumping spiders' fauna of Kırıkkale Province (Araneae, Salticidae). Serket 14: 83-94 pdf

Jiménez-Valverde A, Wesołowska W (2005) Synageles albotrimaculatus (Lucas, 1846) (Araneae, Salticidae), a spider species new to Spain. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13: 122-124 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 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

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
27-11-2014 Distribution update Detail
15-04-2013 Distribution update Detail