Talavera (genus)

Taxobox
name = "Talavera"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia = Salticidae
subfamilia = Euophryinae
tribus = Euophryini
genus = "Talavera"
genus_authority = Peckham & Peckham, 1909
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Talavera
diversity = 15 species
type_species = "Icius minutus"
type_species_authority = Banks, 1895
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subdivision_ranks = Species
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"Talavera" is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Almost all species occur in the Old World, from Belgium to Japan. However, "T. minuta" is found not only in Russia, but also in North America.

Name

Talavera is a place in Spain.

Description

These species of minute (c. 2 mm long) jumping spiders are very similar to each other. The Central European species are hard to distinguish even when their genital features are studied under the microscope. The prevalent species is "T. aequipes". [Bellmann 1997]

pecies

* "Talavera aequipes" (O. P.-Cambridge, 1871) — Palearctic
** "Talavera aequipes ludio" (Simon, 1871) — Corsica
* "Talavera aperta" (Miller, 1971) — Belgium to Central Asia
* "Talavera esyunini" Logunov, 1992 — Sweden, Finland, Russia
* "Talavera ikedai" Logunov & Kronestedt, 2003 — Korea, Japan
* "Talavera inopinata" Wunderlich, 1993 — France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Germany
* "Talavera krocha" Logunov & Kronestedt, 2003 — France to Central Asia
* "Talavera milleri" (Brignoli, 1983) — Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia
* "Talavera minuta" (Banks, 1895) — Russia, Canada, USA
* "Talavera monticola" (Kulczynski, 1884) — Central, Southern Europe
* "Talavera parvistyla" Logunov & Kronestedt, 2003 — Northern, Central Europe
* "Talavera petrensis" (C. L. Koch, 1837) — Europe to Central Asia
* "Talavera sharlaa" Logunov & Kronestedt, 2003 — Russia
* "Talavera thorelli" (Kulczynski, 1891) — Palearctic
* "Talavera trivittata" (Schenkel, 1963) — Russia, Mongolia, China
* "Talavera tuvensis" Logunov & Kronestedt, 2003 — Russia

Footnotes

References

* (1997): Kosmos-Atlas Spinnentiere Europas. "Kosmos". ISBN 3440107469
* (2008): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.5. "American Museum of Natural History".

Further reading

* (2003): A review of the genus "Talavera" Peckham and Peckham, 1909 (Araneae, Salticidae). "Journal of Natural History" 37(9): 1091-1154. DOI|10.1080/00222930110098391

External links

* [http://salticus.zoology.ubc.ca/salticid/diagnost/talavera/petr-kph.htm Photograph of "T. petrensis"]