Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Talavera  G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1909   12 species

Talavera logunovi  Kovblyuk & Kastrygina, 2015

Description
Male

Prosoma brown with white scales, eye field black, some light spots on the sides and at the posterior part of the eye field, black field around eyes, thoracic part with black margins and a light marginal line. Prosoma length: 1.15 mm. Chelicerae and sternum light brown. Leg I: from femur to middle metatarsus black, distal metatarsus and tarsus light. Leg II: femur dark, remaining segments light with dark rings. Leg III: femur dark, remaining segments ligh. Leg IV: all segments light with black rings. Opisthosoma: dorsum brown, with yellow reticulate pattern, venter brown, with scutum anterior to spinnerets and 2 light longitudinal lines. Spinnerets brown.

Body length male: 2.2 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 1.02-1.30 mm. Colouration as in males, except opisthosoma without scutum. Leg I femur dark on its sides, patella darkened distally, tibia with 2 lateral spots distally, metatarsus darkened proximally, tarsus light. Leg II femur with darker patches on its prolateral side, patella darkened distally, tibia with 2 lateral spots distally, metatarsus darker than metatarsus of leg I, tarsus darkened proximally. Legs III-IV: all segments light, with black rings.

Body length female: 1.98-3.08 mm
Additional information

In sub-Mediterranean forests, meadows, steppes.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Bulgaria, Ukraine
Phenology
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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.

Bulgaria   (Dimitrov & Naumova, 2021) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

Dimitrov D, Naumova M (2021) A faunistic survey of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Sakar Mountain, Bulgaria. Arachnology 18: 689-699 pdf

Kovblyuk M M, Kastrygina Z A (2015a) A new species of Talavera Peckham et Peckham, 1909 (Aranei: Salticidae) from the Crimea. Arthropoda Selecta 24: 201-205 pdf

Logunov D V, Kronestedt T (2003) A review of the genus Talavera Peckham and Peckham, 1909 (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Natural History 37: 1091-1154 pdf

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App 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
09-03-2021 Image insert
09-03-2021 Distribution insert Detail
02-07-2015 Image insert
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