Genus Sitticus Simon, 1901
COLOR PHOT: [distinguendus by B. Knoflach] [ longipes by Knoflach][penicillatus by Holstein] [pubescens by Holstein] [ rupicola environment] [rupicola by B. Knoflach][... by Holstein] [rupicola and pubescens from Nieuwenhuys] zimmermanni = atricapillus by B. Knoflach). By A. Senglet: [ distinguendus ][floricola][inexpectus] [rupicola][cf. rupicola - Iran]. [cf. leucoproctus]
DRAWINGS:
[ TYPE SPECIES S. floricola] [S.
floricola by Zabka] [S. floricola
palustris]
[Definition
and division of Sitticus] [Survey
of distinguendus
group] [Survey of
floricola group]
[morphological series of spermathecae
& channels][provisional tree]
[ absolutus ] [S. albolineatus]
[S. ammophilus ] [S. ansobicus
][atricapillus] [S. avocator
] [ barsakelmes ] [S.
buriaticus]
[S. cabellensis] [S. canus
- S America !] [S. caricis]
cellulanus [S. clavator]
[ cursor ] [S. cutleri]
[ damini ] [S. distinguendus]
[S. dubatolovi] [ dudkoi ]
[S. dzieduszycki by Proszynski]
[S. dzieduszycki by Zabka]
...........[S. eskovi] [S.
fasciger] [S. finschi] [flabellatus]
[godlewskii]
[S. goricus] [S. inexpectus]
[S. inopinabilis] ...........[S.
karakumensis] [S. kazakhstanicus] ...........
[ leucoproctus ] [S. longipes]
[S. magnus] [S. mirandus]
[S. monstrabilis] ...........[S.
nenilini] [S. niveosignatus]
[S. penicillatus] [S. penicilloides]
[S. pulchellus] [S. pubescens
] ...........[S. ranieri (s. lineolatus) ] [ranieri/saxicola
morphs] [relictarius ][rivalis]
[S. rupicola] [S. cf. rupicola?]
[saevus?] [saganus?] S.
saltator] [S. saxicola] [
sinensis] [S. striatus] [subadultus?]
...........[taiwanensis] [S.
talgarensis] [S. tannuolana] [S.
terebratus][uphami] ...........[S.
vilis] [wuae][ zaisanicus
] [S. zimmermanni] [
S. sp. coll. Ovtsharenko][sp.
n. from Bahamas] [ S. sp. 1 from Kyrghystan]
[ sp. 2 from Kazakhstan]
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NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES
[absolutus ] [ ammophilus
] [cursor ] [ cutleri ]
[fasciger ] [finschi ]
[floricola palustris ] [
juniperi] [magnus ] [pubescens
] [ ranieri ][sylvestris]
[striatus ] [welchi ]
[sp. n. from Bahamas]
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SOUTH and CENTRAL AMERICAN SPECIES
[S. cabellensis =Pseudattulus c.][S.
canus ] cellulanus [flabellatus]
[ leucoproctus ][cf.
leucoproctus phot] [palpalis]
Diagnoses of genera
of South East Asia: Smart
and/or furry salticids. Found in warm, stony or bare areas. Genus: Sitticus.
These are stout,
compact, dull coloured spiders. The cephalothorax is moderately high with
the eye region flattish, steep sides and a steeply sloping thorax. In plan
it is a very broad oval which is truncated anteriorly. The abdomen is broad,
narrowly truncated anteriorly. The legs are quite long and slender, with legs
IV much the longest. For S. fasciger the carapace is basically black
with a brick-red pubescence mixed with long white hairs and a white pubescence
on the sides. There is a broken, white, narrow, longitudinal, median stripe.
The abdomen is, in the main, covered with a black pubescence mixed with white
and reddish hairs. Near the middle there are two, oblique, reddish spots and
towards the rear there are two large, almost oval, white areas which virtually
fill the width of the abdomen. The legs are light brown with slightly darker
brown annulations and quite a number of thinnish, dark-coloured spines.
Distribution: The large genus Sitticus is principally holarctic
in distribution but there are some species recorded from C. America, S. America
and S. Africa. Only two species from S. China. S. fasciger and S. sinensis,
are known in our area but no species have been recorded in the region southeast
of the Wallace Line. Murphy & Murphy 2000: 346-347. By courtesy of the
Authors' and the Malaysian Nature Society.
Holarctic Sitticus
species live in variety of sunny habitats, including tree trunks and wooden
constructions, rocks, stony and sandy grounds, but also on low vegetation
and humid meadows (where also among roots of grasses and in moss) - J. Proszynski