Talavera (spider)
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| Genus: | Talavera Peckham & Peckham, 1909
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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.
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.[1]
Species
- 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, United States
- 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
- ^ Bellmann 1997
References
- Bellmann, Heiko (1997): Kosmos-Atlas Spinnentiere Europas. Kosmos. ISBN 3-440-10746-9
- Platnick, Norman I. (2008): The world spider catalog, version 8.5. American Museum of Natural History.
Further reading
- Logunov, D.V. & Kronestedt, T. (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
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