Pellenes Seriatus
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

''Pellenes seriatus'' is a species of 'jumping spiders' belonging to the family Salticidae. This species is mainly present in most of
Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a Continent#Subcontinents, subcontinent of Eurasia ...
. The adults of these spiders reach approximately of length and can mainly be encountered on the bark of trees, on sunny rocks and in grasslands. The males of this species frontally look very similar to ''
Pellenes lapponicus ''Pellenes'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1876. It is considered a senior synonym of ''Hyllothyene''. They are dark to black with white stripes on the back, and often have bright red markings. M ...
'' and to ''
Hasarius adansoni ''Hasarius adansoni'', known commonly as Adanson's house jumper,Gerlach, J. 2014''Hasarius adansoni''.The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014. Downloaded on 13 June 2016. is a species of jumping spider common and associated with people in mo ...
''. In males the basic color of the hairy body is black, with a white longitudinal stripe on the middle of the opistosoma and a bright red mask on the eyes. The color of the opistosoma may be black or dark brownish. The pedipalps have whitish tips, while the legs are wholly black. In the females the red mask is missing. These spiders have eight eyes with very large anterior median eyes and smaller on each side. Their eyesight is excellent.


References

* Jerzy Proszynski 2005
Pellenes seriatus
* Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History * Cantarella T., P. Alicata, 2002. On the genus Pellenes Simon 1876 (Araneae, Salticidae): synonymies and description of a new Italian species. Boll. Accad. Gioenia Sci. Nat. Catania, 35, 361: 577–579, figs 8–11.


External links


Fauna Europaea



PBI
{{Taxonbar, from=Q2381463 Salticidae Spiders of Europe Spiders described in 1875