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Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Bassaniodes  Pocock, 1903   23 species

Bassaniodes tenebrosus (Šilhavý, 1944)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032088

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Description
Male

Black-brown. Club-shaped body hairs. Tibia I-II ventral usually with 6 pairs of spines. Metatarsus I-II ventral with 4-5 pairs of spines.

prosoma length: 3.3-4.3 mm

Female

Brown. Epigyne without sickle-shaped structure next to the scape.

prosoma length: 3.3-4.3 mm

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): East Mediterranean
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Deltshev et al. 2004)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Deltshev et al. 2004)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Coşar et al. 2016)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Coşar et al. 2016)

species

female Epigyne
(Deltshev et al. 2004)

species

female Vulva
(Deltshev et al. 2004)

Distribution List
Bosnia and Herzegovina   (Komnenov, 2010) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia   (Grbac et al., 2019) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| North Macedonia   (Deltshev et al., 2013) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Coşar et al., 2016; Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
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

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 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Coşar İ, Danışman T, Tarlabölen R (2016) A new crab spider record from Turkey (Araneae: Thomisidae). Serket 15: 104-106 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Deltshev C, Komnenov M, Blagoev G, Georgiev T, Lazarov S, Stojkoska E, Naumova M (2013) Faunistic diversity of spiders (Araneae) in Galichitsa Mountain (FYR Macedonia). Biodiversity Data Journal 1(e977): 1-70 pdf

Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Blagoev G (2004) Spiders (Araneae) from the eastern Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece). In Beron, P. & A. Popov (eds.) Biodiversity of Bulgaria. 2. Biodiversity of eastern Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece). Pensoft, Sofia, pp. 181-188 pdf

Grbac I, Katušić L, Lukić M (2019) Catalogue of spiders (Araneae) deposited in the Croatian Natural History Museum. Natura Croatica 28: 185-269 pdf

Komnenov M (2010) Checklist of spiders (Araneae) of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Uzizaž i Biospeld 5(2009): 52-69 pdf

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

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
17-11-2024 Distribution update Detail
08-06-2020 Distribution update Detail
28-06-2019 Distribution update Detail
18-02-2017 Image insert
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10-05-2016 Datasheet update Detail