Philodromidae  Thorell, 1869 / Thanatus  C. L. Koch, 1837   36 species

Thanatus arenarius L. Koch, 1872

Beschreibung

Tibialapophyse retrolateral, flach, leicht gebogen, das Ende zweizipflig. Prosoma rotbraun. Beine rotbraun. Opisthosoma hellbraun bis aschgrau.

Körperlänge Männchen: 4.3-6.2 mm
Körperlänge Weibchen: 5.5-8.5 mm
Zusätzliche Informationen

Häufig in trockenen und halbtrockenen Steppengebieten, an Meeresküsten und Salzorten, paläarktisch verbreitet, Überwinterung als Juvenile

Verbreitung
  Vorkommen
  kein Nachweis
Verbreitung Kommentar: Nachweise in Aserbeidschan basieren möglicherweise auf Fehlbestimmungen (Logunov & Huseynov 2008).
Weltweite Verbreitung (WSC 2026): Europe, Caucasus, Iran, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan
Phänologie
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
Abbildungen
Verbreitungsnachweise

"No reference" bedeutet nicht, dass die Art in diesem Land nicht vorkommt, sondern dass wir die Referenz hierfür noch nicht eingefügt haben. Wir arbeiten daran.

Albania   (Kůrka et al., 2020) ||| Austria   (Malicky, 1972a) ||| Azerbaijan  Removed (Otto, 2022; Nuruyeva & Zamani, 2025) ||| Belarus   (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Belgium   (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Denmark   (Scharff & Gudik-Sørensen, 2006) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Latvia   (Cera, 2018) ||| Lithuania   (Biteniekytė & Rėlys, 2012) ||| Moldova   (Vasiliev & Mikhailov, 2023) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Russia, Central   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Serbia   (Stanković, 2023) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015; Gregorič & Kuntner, 2009) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
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