Talavera (genus)

Talavera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Euophryinae
Genus: Talavera
Peckham & Peckham, 1909
Type species
Icius minutus
Banks, 1895
Species

see text

Diversity
15 species

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.[1]

Species

Footnotes

  1. Bellmann 1997

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