Peucetia viridis (Blackwall, 1858)
Description
Male
Prosoma and legs brownish-yellow. Opisthosoma greenish. Palp: peculiar shape of the paracymbial sclerite. Tibia longer than bulbus and armed with two long bristles. Bulbus apically with low tegular ridge, median apophysis without process on underside of shaft, paracymbium relatively large with small protuberances projecting along its apical portion. Prosoma length: 4.0 mm, prosoma width: 2.9 mm.
Female
Epigyne: relatively flattened with short finger-like lobes bulging into large anterior depression, brown posterior edges of lobes slightly raised above ectal openings, and lobes medially only little depressed. Prosoma length: 5.3-6.3 mm, prosoma width: 3.7-4.4 mm.
Body length female: 13.3-14.5 mmDistribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Santos & Brescovit 2003)
Pedipalp, lateral view
(Santos & Brescovit 2003)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy 1999a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Levy 1999a)
Epigyne
(Suárez et al. 2024)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Santos & Brescovit 2003)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Levy 1999a)
Epigyne, posterior view
(Levy 1999a)
Epigyne
(Suárez et al. 2024)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Santos & Brescovit 2003)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Levy 1999a)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Suárez et al. 2024)
Habitus, frontal view
(Suárez et al. 2024)
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.
References
Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 
Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535
Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124
Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Kronestedt T, Alderweireldt M, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H (2013) Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek island of Crete. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28 (Suppl. 1): 1-147
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Denis J (1966a) Les araignées du Fezzân. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle d'Afrique du Nord 55: 103-144
El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183
Elkrew H, Hamza A, Ghana S, Shaibi T, Swehli A I, Elmareme H, Ahmad A (2024) Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Libya. Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences 22: 19346-19369
Levy G (1999a) The lynx and nursery-web spider families in Israel (Araneae, Oxyopidae and Pisauridae). Zoosystema 21: 29-64
Niekerk P van, Dippenaar-Schoeman A S (1994) A revision of the Afrotropical species of Peucetia (Araneae: Oxyopidae). Entomology Memoir, Department of Agriculture Republic of South Africa 89: 1-50
Santos A J, Brescovit A D (2003) A revision of the Neotropical species of the lynx spider genus Peucetia Thorell 1869 (Araneae: Oxyopidae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 34: 95-116
Suárez D, Jiménez-García E, Lugo D, Pérez-Delgado A J (2024) First report of Peucetia viridis (Araneae: Oxyopidae) from the Canary Islands. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 68: 18-20
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
| 10-01-2025 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 30-11-2024 | Image insert | |
| 30-09-2024 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 06-12-2023 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 06-12-2023 | Distribution insert | Detail |
| 25-02-2022 | Distribution insert | Detail |
| 13-06-2016 | Datasheet update | Detail |
| 15-10-2013 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 14-05-2013 | Image insert |