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Philodromidae  Thorell, 1870 / Philodromus  Walckenaer, 1826   56 species

Philodromus buxi  Simon, 1884

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:029774

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Description

Epigyne with longish oval posterior half of median part. Colour very variable, brown or yellowish brown, mostly spotted. Prosoma often with broad, bright median band. Legs yellowish-grey, or brown with dark spots. Opisthosoma with bright median band and often with dark cardiac mark and dark angular spots. Male: often patterned more intensely, sometimes unicoloured dark brown.

Body length male: 3.5-5 mm
Body length female: 4-7 mm
Additional information

In sunny places on herbs, bushes and trees, commun in the canopy of trees.

Frequency: Rarely found

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Poland: Dziabaszewski (1999), UK: Wilson (2015)
Global distribution (WSC 2022): Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Iran
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
in early summer
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Braun 1965)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Braun 1965)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Roberts 1995)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Locket et al. 1974)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Simon 1932)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Harvey 2018)

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female Epigyne
(Braun 1965)

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female Epigyne
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)

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female Epigyne
(Roberts 1995)

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female Epigyne
(Locket et al. 1974)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Simon 1932)

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female Epigyne
(Harvey 2018)

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female Epigyne
(Harvey 2018)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Braun 1965)

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Prosoma
(Locket et al. 1974)

Distribution List
Belgium   (no references) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Czechia   (Růžička et al., 2019; Řezáč et al., 2021) ||| France   (no references) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Luxembourg   (Kreuels et al., 2019) ||| Montenegro   (no references) ||| Netherlands   (no references) ||| Poland   (no references) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Romania   (no references) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) ||| Serbia   (no references) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Switzerland   (no references) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019) |||
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

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Braun R (1965) Beitrag zu einer Revision der paläarktischen Arten der Philodromus aureolus-Gruppe (Arach., Araneae). 1. Morphologisch-systematischer Teil. Senckenbergiana Biologica 46: 369-428 pdf

Dziabaszewski A (1999) Pająki. In Ehrnsberger R, Dabert J,  Blaszak C (ed.) Przyroda rezerwatu Słońsk. Wydawnictwo "ACARUS" Poznan, pp. 115-116

Harvey P (2018) Editorial [S.R.S. News. No. 91] [Philodromus buxi]. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 142: 22 pdf

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

Kielhorn K-H (2016) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Webspinnen und Weberknechte in Berlin und Brandenburg. Märkische Entomologische Nachrichten 17(2): 261-286 pdf

Kreuels M, Staudt A, Christian S (2019) Die Spinnenfauna von Luxemburg – eine Zusammenstellung der Nachweise aus den Jahren 1906-2018 (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes luxembourgeois 121: 203-230 pdf

Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212 pdf

Locket G H, Millidge A F, Merrett P (1974) British Spiders, Volume III. Ray Society, London, 315 pp. pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. 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). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Pantini P, Sassu A, Serra G (2013) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida Araneae) of Sardinia. Biodiversity Journal 4: 3-104 pdf

Řezáč M, Růžička V, Hula V, Dolanský J, Machač O, Roušar A (2021) Spiders newly observed in Czechia in recent years – overlooked or invasive species? BioInvasions Records 10: 555-566 pdf

Roberts M J (1995) Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp. pdf

Růžička V, Dolanský J, Rothová H (2019) Pavouci České republiky [Spiders of the Czech Republic]. Pavouk 47: 2-3 pdf

Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184 pdf

Simon E (1932) Les arachnides de France 6 (4). Paris (Roret): 773-978 pdf

Wilson R (2015) Philodromus buxi and Anyphaena sabina: two new records for the UK. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 132: 17-19 pdf

WSC (2022) World Spider Catalog. Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (21.01.2022) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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