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2 M. Steinwandter, S. Ballini & A. Rief in April 2017 at the train station of Untermais/Maia Bassa, a district of the city of Meran/Merano. This specimen was found near benches on the rail tracks. Faunistics. Places of recent findings were urban areas such as buildings and gardens (Komnenov 2005 and this study). Natural habitats are litter layer and stony surfaces in forests as well as stony riverbanks, most of them close to waterbodies such as waterfalls and rivers (Greece, Metzner 1999). Further, individuals were collected in saltmarsh meadows (Hungary, Szita et al 2004) and under stones (Turkey, Uyar & Uğurtaş 2012).Males were recorded, with some exceptions (e.g. Kom- nenov 2005 and this study) from April to June with a peak in May, and females from April to July with a peak in June (Metzner 1999, Uyar & Uğurtaş 2012). Discussion These findings represent the first known records of Saitis tau- ricus Kulczyński, 1905 for the Autonomous Province of Bo- zen – South Tyrol and also for Italy. All four findings of males were made by chance in well-frequented urban areas similar to the findings in Macedonia (Komnenov 2005), implying an adaption to anthropogenic influenced habitats (Fig. 2).These males could have been imported multiple times with goods from the Balkans; no female was found so far. Further, our findings could also indicate a small population that has es- tablished itself over a short time, since the males were found in three consecutive years (i.e. 2016 to 2018). Our findings are very similar to infrequent findings of S. barbipes in urban areas in Belgium (Lambeets et al. 2007), Germany (Bauer & Höfer 2017, Arachnologische Gesellschaft 2018) and the Netherlands (van Helsdingen 2000), where imports from ex- cursions were discussed. However, more findings and research are needed to understand how S. tauricus arrived in the area of South Tyrol and whether it has established successfully. Males were described to be 3.9 to 4.6 mm in size (the ex- amined specimen in Fig. 1 was 4.6 mm), their prosoma being dark brown with a horn-yellow median stripe and white hairs, the head dorsally light grey (Metzner 1999). The opisthoso- ma was described as having a beige median stripe with black spots on the side (Metzner 1999), confirmed by our exami- ned specimens (Fig. 1). A prominent characteristic of males from some European species of the genus Saitis (e.g. S. bar- Fig. 1: Habitus. a. frontal; b. dorsal and left pedipalp; c. ventral; d. retrolateral of a male Saitis tauricus Kulczyński, 1905 from Bozen/Bolzano, Italy (the right leg IV is missing) Fig. 2: Records of Saitis tauricus Kulczyński, 1905 in a. Italy (South Tyrol highlighted); b. the northernmost province Bozen – South Tyrol (quadrant size 6.3 × 5.6 km) (FloraFaunaSüdtirol 2018)