Philodromus Aureolus Middle Sized to Rather Big Male: Fully Iridescent Including Carapace, Greenish-Purple, with Broad Cymbiums
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Philodromus aureolus Middle sized to rather big Male: Fully iridescent including carapace, greenish-purple, with broad cymbiums Female&juvenile: Variable; from bright golden to dark brown, can be rusty, brownish, orange-ish, even silverish grey. White markings usually absent or inconspicious, cardiac mark not very prominent. Legs dark, distally with differentiated but usually faint or obscured annulations, femora darker, rather not translucent Philodromus buchari Large Male: Fully iridescent including carapace, greenish purple Female&juvenile: Bright to rather pale; usually golden or copper coloured. White markings may be present, cardiac mark prominent. Legs usually with differentiated annulations, femora pale and translucent Philodromus cespitum Medium sized Male: pale, with a silverish iridescent abdomen and rusty carapace&legs (although I possess a specimen which was fully iridescent and dark when alive); cymbiums narrow Female&juvenile: Very variable but generally pale or bright. Can be copper or golden coloured, sandy or rusty, or nearly yellowish, white or silverish. White markings sometimes present but usually absent, cardiac mark not very prominent. Legs rather pale, annulations usually not differentiated, femora pale and translucent, sometimes bluish. Philodromus collinus Rather small Male: completely iridescent including carapace, greenish-purple Female&juvenile: Rather dark, rusty, bronzen or brown. White markings usually present, cardiac mark not very prominent yet noticeable and overall darker than rest of abdomen, usually encircled in white. Legs dark, distally very dark, femora not translucent and usually up to 2/3 distally darkened (a medial dark ring, especially on the femora I and II, is usually present apart from the distal one, and the two might be fused) Philodromus longipalpis Rather big Male: non-iridescent, yellowish to brownish, with bluish femora and conspiciously long legs. Female&juvenile: Rather conservative, pale yellow or otherwise pale. Cardiac mark not very conspicious. Legs pale, only slightly darkened distally, with faint rather not differentiated annulations. Femora pale, can be bluish. Philodromus marmoratus Large Male: Almost non-iridescent, greyish-brown. Cymbiums large and broad Female&juvenile: Rather conservative, grey, usually pale. Carapace band with serrated margins, cardiac mark not very prominent. Posterolaterally on abdomen with black lines (extended caudal spots?). Legs distally darkened, but sometimes not very conspiciously. Femora mostly pale Philodromus praedatus Small to medium, gracile Male: weakly greenish iridescent on both abdomen and cephalothorax, leg annulations and cardiac mark visible, with a prominent longitudinal dark median line on carapace Female&juvenile: variable in colour, but rather pale or bright: copper or golden. Cardiac mark prominent, dark. Legs with pale femora and distinct annulations distally. 1. Philodromus aureolus female and male, from Batak dam, Bulgaria (top row) 2. Philodromus buchari male, Sofia, as subadult and adult (bottom row) 3. Philodromus cespitum, diverse specimens (two females from Sofia – top, one male from Varvarini bani – bottom left, and an atypical male from Miloslavtsi near Tran – bottom right) 4. Philodromus longipalpis, first row – subadult male and female from Sofia, second row left – above male after reaching maturity 5. Philodromus marmoratus, second row right – mature male from Sofia, bottom row – left, mature female from Greece, right – above male as subadult 6. Philodromus praedatus, mature male from Sofia Note that this might not reflect the complete variability of any of yhr species depicted .