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Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Xysticus  C. L. Koch, 1835   83 species

Xysticus macedonicus  Šilhavý, 1944

Description
Male

Male palp with hammer-shaped median apophysis with pointed ends. Lateral apophysis shovel-like widened, prolateral end twisted to a tip, with distinct tooth in bulge. Tibial apophysis bipartite, ventral apophysis large, with strongly sclerotised edges and irregular shape, retrolateral apophysis broad and ending blunt in lateral view, longish in ventral view. Embolus with broad, feather-like tip, flanked by 2 wing-like structures and transparent distally.

Prosoma colour very variable (males overall darker). Laterally with broad, black stripes, median triangle large, posteriorly with distinct black spot, arc-like margined by bright stripes on both sides. Sternum beige to brown, partly brightened median and yolk-yellow to yellow-brown on margin. Chelicerae brown, both sexes frontally with one longer spine, females additionally with many small robust spines. Legs long and slender (females thick), coloured like opisthosoma. Opisthosoma distinctly patterned with light brown-ochre triangles on dark background. Spinnerets brown, bordered by a white line.

Body length male: 4.2-6.1 mm
Female

Epigyne with thin median septum, which is widened posteriorly. Longish, broad lateral plates on both sides of septum. 

Body length female: 4.3-7.8 mm
Additional information

mountainous species, apparently confused with X. cristatus/audax

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Kosovo, Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, Turkey
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Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Albania   (Kůrka et al., 2020) ||| Austria   (Thaler & Knoflach, 2004b) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Germany   (Jantscher, 2001b; Blick et al., 2016) ||| Greece   (van Helsdingen et al., 2018) ||| Italy   (IJland & van Helsdingen, 2019) ||| Kosovo   (Geci et al., 2023) ||| North Macedonia   (Jantscher, 2001b; Komnenov, 2014) ||| Switzerland   (Hänggi, 2003) |||
References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 pdf

Breitling R (2018) Eric Duffey's spider collection in the Manchester Museum – an update. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 141: 5-9 pdf

Geci D, Naumova M, Ibrahimi H, Grapci-Kotori L, Gashi A, Bilalli A, Musliu M (2023) Contribution to spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae) from Bjeshkët e Nemuna mountains (Kosovo). Natura Croatica 32: 525-547 pdf

Hänggi A (2003) Nachträge zum "Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen" - 3. Neunachweise von 1999 bis 2002 und Nachweise synanthroper Spinnen Arachnologische Mitteilungen 26: 36-54 pdf

Helsdingen P J van, IJland S, Komnenov M (2018) Inventory of the spiders (Araneae) of the border region of northern Greece with Albania and FYR Macedonia. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 37: 5-23 pdf

IJland S, Helsdingen P J van (2019) Update on the spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of Calabria, Italy. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 38: 8-21 pdf

Jantscher E (2001a) Revision der Krabbenspinnengattung Xysticus C.L. Koch, 1835 (Araneae, Thomisidae) in Zentraleuropa. Dissertation, Univ. Graz, 328 pp., 81 pls. pdf

Jantscher E (2001b) Diagnostic characters of Xysticus cristatus, X. audax and X. macedonicus (Araneae: Thomisidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 12: 17-25 pdf

Komnenov M (2014) Spider fauna of the Osogovo Mt. Range, Northeastern Macedonia. Fauna Balkana 2: 1-267 pdf

Kůrka A, Naumova M, Indzhov S, Deltshev C (2020) New faunistic and taxonomic data on the spider fauna of Albania (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 8-21 pdf

Thaler K, Knoflach B (2004b) Zur Faunistik der Spinnen (Araneae) von Österreich: Gnaphosidae, Thomisidae (Dionycha pro parte). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 36: 417-484 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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