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 * Author Prószyński, Jerzy Professor Emeritus, Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences ul. Wilcza 63, 00 - 679 Warsaw, Poland. E-mail: jerzy. proszynski @ wp. pl Author Lissner, Jørgen Natural History Museum Aarhus Wilhelm Meyers Allé 10 Universitetsparken, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. E-mail: lissner @ nathist. dk Author Schäfer, Michael Hochlandstr. 64, 12589 Berlin Deutschland. E-mail: michael. schaefer @ kleinesganzgross. de text Ecologica Montenegrina 2018 2018-07-04 18 26 74 journal article 2336-9744 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AF50CFA8-DF48-455F-A2E6-DE36742E8CC1 Gen. Pseudeuophrys Dahl, 1912 Figures 23-25 Type species . Pseudeuophrys erratica (Walckenaer, 1826) . Documentation studied. Literature data, especially diagnostic drawing, and macrophotographs, preliminarily collected in Prószyński (2016a) - http://www.peckhamia.com/salticidae/q10-Pseudeuo.html), complemented by the newest data. Diagnosis . Resembling Euophrys (see above), from which differs by coil of embolus hidden behind anterior edge of bulbus, with only tip of embolus protruding, or by higher anterior part of the embolus coil, which makes central space, inside of embolus coil, looking depressed within coil of embolus ( Figs 22F , 25 ). Spermathecae elongate oval, or bean shaped, often slightly constricted, with copulatory ducts relatively broad, running transversally, but in P. iwatensis anterior-ward ( Figs 25B 1 ) (in Euophrys and Talavera spermathecae are ball shaped, with ducts distinctly thinner, running anteriorly ( Figs 22C 1 , 27B, H, L , 28 , 29 ). Description . Small spiders of average body shape, recognizable by coloration ( Figs 23-24 ), by palps and internal structure of epigyne ( Figs 22 , 25 , see also - http://www.peckhamia.com/salticidae/q10- Pseudeuo.html). In difference to Euophrys , dorsal color pattern in males is richer and consists of white scales contrasting with background of brown or blackish scales (with reddish or golden hue). White scales on abdomen may be either concentrated into pairs of small spots, or discrete short white lines dorso-marginally ( Figs 23 A-D), they may also form less dense white assemblages along median abdominal streak (consisting of diamonds and bars), on eye field and on dorsal surface of thorax ( Figs 23 E-H). Comparable patterns occur in females ( Fig. 24 ). After color scales are rub off, bald, black, tegument is left. Frontal color pattern is comparable with Euophrys , but less flamboyant (compare Figs 23 with those on Fig. 4 G-J), in females even more subdued ( Fig. 24 ). Composition. Type species: Pseudeuophrys erratica (Walckenaer, 1826) ( Figs 22C, F , 23 A-B, 24A, 25A-A1). Other species included are: P. iwatensis (Bohdanowicz & Prószyński, 1987) ( Figs 22C, F , 25 B-B1), P. lanigera (Simon, 1871) ( Figs 22C, F , 23H , 24B , 25E ), P. nebrodensis Alicata & Cantarella, 2000 ( Figs 25H ), P. obsoleta (Simon, 1868) ( Figs 22C, F , 23 C-D, 24C, 25C, P. pascualis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) ( Fig. 25D ), P. perdifumo van Helsdingen, 2015 ( Figs 25 I-K, N-P), P. talassica ( Logunov, 1997 ) - comb. n. , ( Fig. 25F ), P. vafra (Blackwall, 1867) ( Figs 22C, F , 2 3 E-F, 2 4D, 2 5G, L-M). 9 species. Catalogue of Pseudeuophrys (as Euophrys ) specimens kept in major collection of the world is given by Prószyński (1971: 404-408) .