Philodromidae  Thorell, 1869 / Philodromus  Walckenaer, 1826   53 species

Philodromus praedatus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871

Beschreibung

Ventrale Tibialapophyse distal eingekerbt. Epigyne mit Mittelteil, grösste Breite an der Epigastralfurche. Färbung sehr variabel, braun oder gelblich-braun, meist gefleckt. Männchen oft intensiver gezeichnet, mitunter einfarbig dunkelbraun. Prosoma oft mit breitem, hellem Mittelband, seitlich gefleckt. Beine gelblich-grau, oder braun mit dunklen Flecken. Opisthosoma mit hellem Mittelband sowie oft mit dunklem Herzfleck.

Körperlänge Männchen: 3.5-5 mm
Körperlänge Weibchen: 4-7 mm
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Verbreitung
  Vorkommen
  kein Nachweis
Weltweite Verbreitung (WSC 2026): Europe, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran
Phänologie
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
Abbildungen
Verbreitungsnachweise
Albania   (Deltshev et al., 2011b) ||| Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Austria   (Freudenthaler, 2004) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022; Logunov & Huseynov, 2008) ||| Belgium   (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Denmark   (Scharff & Gudik-Sørensen, 2006) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Georgia   (Seropian et al., 2023b) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Greece   (Van Keer et al., 2010) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Ireland   (Lavery, 2019) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Luxembourg   (Kreuels et al., 2019) ||| Netherlands   (van Helsdingen, 2025a) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014; Deltshev et al., 2013) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) ||| Serbia   (Ćurčić et al., 2007) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
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