Salticus

Taxobox
name = "Salticus"

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Salticus scenicus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia = Salticidae
subfamilia = Salticinae
genus = "Salticus"
genus_authority = Latreille, 1804
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Salticus
diversity = 48 species
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = see text

"Salticus" is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).

Description

"Salticus" species are typically marked with a black and white pattern, with some featuring transverse stripes, often gaining them the popular name "zebra spiders". Mature males have very long chelicerae on which they rest their long, thin pedipalps. Females are from 3.5 to 7 mm long, males up to 5 mm.Murphy & Murphy 2000: 279]

Habits

"Salticus" are often found on rocks and tree trunks, where the sun can reach. "S. scenicus" is often seen on sunny walls.

Distribution

This genus was used for a long time as a salticid dump, with many species originally described as "Salticus" now moved to other genera. The remaining species have mostly a palearctic distribution, with some species reaching into the Mediterranean region and South Asia. A few species are found in the New World. "S. perogaster" is endemic to a small island in New Guinea, "S. annulatus" is found in South Africa.

"Salticus melanopus", the single described species from south east Asia (Thailand) [Murphy & Murphy 2000: 270] , is a nomen dubium [Platnick 2007] .

pecies

* "Salticus afghanicus" Logunov & Zamanpoore, 2005 — Afghanistan
* "Salticus aiderensis" Logunov & Rakov, 1998 — Turkmenistan
* "Salticus alegranzaensis" Wunderlich, 1995 — Canary Islands
* "Salticus amitaii" Prószyński, 2000 — Israel
* "Salticus annulatus" (Giebel, 1870) — South Africa
* "Salticus austinensis" Gertsch, 1936 — USA, Mexico, Central America
* "Salticus beneficus" (O. P-Cambridge, 1885) — Yarkand
* "Salticus brasiliensis" Lucas, 1833 — Brazil
* "Salticus canariensis" Wunderlich, 1987 — Canary Islands
* "Salticus cingulatus" (Panzer, 1797) — Palearctic
* "Salticus confusus" Lucas, 1846 — Spain, Corsica, Bulgaria, Algeria
* "Salticus conjonctus" (Simon, 1868) — France, Italy
* "Salticus devotus" (O. P.-Cambridge, 1885) — Yarkand
* "Salticus dzhungaricus" Logunov, 1992 — Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan
* "Salticus flavicruris" (Rainbow, 1897) — New South Wales
* "Salticus gomerensis" Wunderlich, 1987 — Canary Islands
* "Salticus iteacus" Metzner, 1999 — Greece
* "Salticus jugularis" Simon, 1900 — Queensland
* "Salticus kraali" (Thorell, 1878) — Amboina
* "Salticus latidentatus" Roewer, 1951 — Russia, Mongolia, China
* "Salticus major" (Simon, 1868) — Portugal, Spain, France
* "Salticus mandibularis" (Simon, 1868) — Greece
* "Salticus marenzelleri" Nosek, 1905 — Turkey
* "Salticus meticulosus" Lucas, 1846 — Algeria
* "Salticus modicus" (Simon, 1875) — France
* "Salticus mutabilis" Lucas, 1846 — Europe, Azores, Georgia, Argentina
* "Salticus noordami" Metzner, 1999 — Greece
* "Salticus olivaceus" (L. Koch, 1867) — Spain to Israel
* "Salticus palpalis" (Banks, 1904) — USA
* "Salticus paludivagus" Lucas, 1846 — Algeria
* "Salticus peckhamae" (Cockerell, 1897) — USA
* "Salticus perogaster" (Thorell, 1881) — Yule Island (New Guinea)
* "Salticus propinquus" Lucas, 1846 — Mediterranean
* "Salticus proszynskii" Logunov, 1992 — Kyrgyzstan
* "Salticus quagga" Miller, 1971 — Hungary, Slovakia
* "Salticus ravus" (Bösenberg, 1895) — Canary Islands
* "Salticus scenicus" (Clerck, 1757) — Holarctic
* "Salticus scitulus" (Simon, 1868) — Corsica, Sicily
* "Salticus tricinctus" (C. L. Koch, 1846) — Israel to Central Asia
* "Salticus truncatus" Simon, 1937 — France
* "Salticus turkmenicus" Logunov & Rakov, 1998 — Turkmenistan
* "Salticus unciger" (Simon, 1868) — Southern Europe
* "Salticus unicolor" (Simon, 1868) — Corfu
* "Salticus unispinus" (Franganillo, 1910) — Portugal
* "Salticus zebraneus" (C. L. Koch, 1837) — Palearctic

Footnotes

References

* (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. "Malaysian Nature Society", Kuala Lumpur.
* (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.0. "American Museum of Natural History".

External links

* [http://salticus.zoology.ubc.ca/salticid/diagnost/salticus/can-hol-ph.htm Photograph of "S. canariensis"]
* [http://salticus.zoology.ubc.ca/salticid/diagnost/salticus/muta-hol-ph.htm Photograph of "S. mutabilis"]
* [http://salticus.zoology.ubc.ca/salticid/diagnost/salticus/sce-hol-ph.htm Photograph of "S. scenicus"]
* [http://salticus.zoology.ubc.ca/salticid/diagnost/salticus/zeb-hol-ph.htm Photograph of "S. zebraneus"]
* [http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/Salticidae/Salticidae.htm Photograph of "S. cingulatus"]