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Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Bassaniodes  Pocock, 1903   22 species

Bassaniodes robustus  (Hahn, 1832)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032048

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Description

Male palp black-brown, knob-shaped, sclerotised structure originating centrally on bulbus. Tibial apophysis tripartite, one ventral, that is slender and apically bent hook-like, one intermediate, that is broad and massive in ventral view and slightly tapering toward the tip, retrolateral apophysis with distinct tip. Epigyne striking, dark and strongly sclerotised, embedded in bulges and folds. Vulva with narrow, bent entrance duct. Prosoma unicoloured red-brown, with slightly brighter, median area (median longitudinal line in females), partly with white or cream-yellow spots on inner side of eye protrusion of anterior median eyes. Females with dark and/or bright spots. Sternum black-brown. Chelicerae spined frontally. Legs with velvety surface, black-brown with dark red to wine-red tinge, brighter on tibia, dorsally darker than on other sides. Legs partly with white longitudinal line or bright spots. Opisthosoma unicoloured black-brown to slightly reddish dark brown with small yellow and black spots, with 5 sigilla.

Body length male: 5-6.9 mm
Body length female: 7-12 mm
Additional information

Under stones and in stony debris, short grass and moss, deciduous forests and meadows, from lowland up to subalpine region

Frequency: Not frequent

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Record for Norway: Løvbrekke (2016) pers. comm.
Global distribution (WSC 2020): Europe to Central Asia
Phenology
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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Jantscher 2001a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Roberts 1995)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Locket & Millidge 1951)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Jantscher 2001a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Jantscher 2001a)

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male Embolus, ventral view
(Jantscher 2001a)

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female Epigyne
(Roberts 1995)

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female Epigyne
(Brændegaard 1966)

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female Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1951)

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female Epigyne
(Jantscher 2001a)

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female Epigyne
(Jantscher 2001a)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Jantscher 2001a)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Jantscher 2001a)

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female Vulva
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Jantscher 2001a)

Distribution List
Albania   ( no references ) ||| Austria   ( no references ) ||| Belarus   ( no references ) ||| Belgium   ( no references ) ||| Bulgaria   ( Blagoev et al., 2018; ) ||| Croatia   ( no references ) ||| Czechia   ( no references ) ||| Estonia   ( no references ) ||| France   ( no references ) ||| France / Corsica   ( no references ) ||| Georgia   ( Otto, 2020; ) ||| Germany   ( no references ) ||| Greece   ( no references ) ||| Hungary   ( no references ) ||| Italy   ( Pantini & Isaia, 2019; ) ||| Latvia   ( Cera, 2018; ) ||| Liechtenstein   ( no references ) ||| Morocco   ( Bosmans, unpubl.; ) ||| Netherlands   ( no references ) ||| North Macedonia   ( no references ) ||| Norway   ( no references ) ||| Poland   ( no references ) ||| Portugal   ( no references ) ||| Romania   ( no references ) ||| Russia, Central   ( no references ) ||| Russia, Eastern   ( no references ) ||| Russia, Southern   ( Otto, 2020; ) ||| Russia, Western   ( no references ) ||| Slovakia   ( no references ) ||| Slovenia   ( Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015; ) ||| Spain   ( no references ) ||| Sweden   ( no references ) ||| Switzerland   ( no references ) ||| Turkey (Asia)   ( Danışman et al., 2019; ) ||| Ukraine   ( Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019; ) ||| United Kingdom   ( no references ) |||
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)

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

Brændegaard J (1966) Edderkopper: Eller Spindlere I Danmarks Fauna 72: 1-224 pdf

Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S (2019) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2019 [last updated 1 June 2019], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin pdf

Helsdingen P J van (2010a) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org

Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311 pdf

Jantscher E (2001a) Revision der Krabbenspinnengattung Xysticus C.L. Koch, 1835 (Araneae, Thomisidae) in Zentraleuropa. Dissertation: 1-328 pdf

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

Locket G H, Millidge A F (1951) British Spiders 1. Ray Soc London

Otto S (2020) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 03.2020. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online Catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other Arachnid Orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). http://araneae.it. Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

Roberts M J (1995) Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe. Collins Field Guide Bath

World Spider Catalog (2020) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.03.2020) doi: 10.24436/2

Updates
29-08-2016 Distribution update Detail
07-03-2016 Image insert
28-04-2014 Distribution update Detail