Talavera Peckham & Peckham 1909
Creators: name: Prószyński, Jerzy
name: Lissner, Jørgen
name: Schäfer, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Talavera

description: Gen. Talavera Peckham & Peckham, 1909   
Figures 26-29  
 Type species. Icius minutus Banks, 1895 [= Talavera minuta (Banks, 1895)].   
 Documentation studied. Literature data, especially diagnostic drawings, and macrophotographs, preliminarily collected in Prószyński (2016a) - http://www.peckhamia.com/salticidae/q10-Tala.html), complemented by the newest data.   
 Diagnosis. Resembling Euophrys (see above), from which differs by not coiled embolus (Figs 22C, 27-29). Spermathecae ball shaped, with extremely thin, thread like copulatory ducts running anterior-ward (Figs 77- 29). Body squat (Fig. 26) and very small (about 2-3 mm), color pattern uniform with spaced and thin light scales sitting on uniform dark tegument.   
 Remarks. Technically Talavera disagrees with the most important, cornerstone character of the group of genera EUOPHRYINES - that is have no coiled embolus, instead it has almost straight embolus (often strongly reduced in size - see series of SEM photographs by Logunov and Kronestedt, 2003, shown here at Figs 27, 28, 29). Because other diagnostic characters agree (ball shaped spermathecae with delicate ducts, membranous "windows" in epigyne) and embolus is sitting atop inflatable haematodocha (Figs 29 N-P) Talavera is considered atypical EUOPHRYINES with modified embolus.   
 Description. Very small spiders (about 2-3 mm) of average body shape, shown on Fig. 26, palps and internal structure of epigyne shown on Figs 27-29. Color pattern is unique and consist of uniform, spaced small scales distributed uniformly over dark body (Fig. 26).   
 Remarks. Whereabouts of specimens of Talavera specimens kept in major collection of the world is given by Prószyński (1971: 404-408) (labeled as Euophrys) 10.   
 Distribution. Palaearctic Region, with single species in North America.   
 Composition. Type species: Talavera minuta (Banks, 1895) (Figs 22B, E, 26 D-E, 27A-E). Other following species included: T. aequipes (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871) (Figs 3-K, 22B, 27 F-H), T. aperta (Miller, 1971) (Figs 22B, E, 28 C-E), T. esyunini Logunov, 1992 (Figs 29 E-F), T. ikedai Logunov & Kronestedt, 2003 (Figs 29 H-I), T. inopinata Wunderlich, 1993 (Fig. 27 M-P), T. krocha Logunov & Kronestedt, 2003 (Fig. 28 I-J), T. logunovi Kovblyuk & Kastrygina, 2015 (Figs 28 F-H), T. milleri (Brignoli, 1983). (Figs 229K-L), T. monticola (Kulczyński, 1884) (Figs 29 A-D), T. parvistyla Logunov & Kronestedt, 2003 (Figs 22B, 28 J-M), T. thorelli (Kulczyński, 1891) (Figs 22B, E, 28 A-B), T. trivittata (Schenkel, 1963), (Figs 27 I-L), T. tuvensis Logunov & Kronestedt, 2003 (Figs 29J). 14 species. 10 " Talavera" petrensis (C. L. Koch, 1837) is already transferred to the genus Euophrys (see above Figs 3 A-E, 4H, 6A, 7E).   
 SOURCES: A-B - Prószyński (1990p). Private preprint. C - Paquin P., Duperre N. 2003. Fabreries, Suppl. 11: 203, f 2270-2272., D - drawings by W. P. Maddison., E - Logunov Kronestedt 2003. J. Natural History, 2003, F-P - Logunov & Kronestedt 2003. J. Natural History (2003). All ©copyrights are retained by the original authors and copyright holders, used by their courtesy.   
 SOURCES: A-E, I, J - Logunov & Kronestedt (2003). J. Natural History, 2003, F-H - Kovblyuk & Kastrygina (2015) Arthropoda Selecta 24(2): 201-205, I, J - Logunov & Kronestedt (2003), Żabka (1997), K -M - Logunov & Kronestedt (2003). J. Natural History, 2003. All ©copyrights are retained by the original authors and copyright holders, used by their courtesy.   
 SOURCES: A-B - Chvátalová & Buchar (2002). Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 66: 3-11, C-P - Logunov & Kronestedt (2003). J. Natural History, 2003. All ©copyrights are retained by the original authors and copyright holders, used by their courtesy.   
 Appendix - overdue nomenclatorical correction
description: Published as part of Prószyński, Jerzy, Lissner, Jørgen & Schäfer, Michael, 2018, Taxonomic survey of the genera Euophrys, Pseudeuophrys and Talavera, with description of Euochin gen. n. (Araneae: Salticidae) and with proposals of a new research protocol *, pp. 26-74 in Ecologica Montenegrina 18 on pages 65-70, DOI: 10.37828/em.2018.18.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13360279