Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Xysticus  C. L. Koch, 1835   82 species

Xysticus slovacus Svatoň, Pekár & Prídavka, 2000

Description
Male

Prosoma beige, dark brown at sides and in the middle. Opisthosoma beige with distinct brown markings at sides and in the middle. Palpus with hook-shaped median tegular apophysis.

prosoma length: 2.4 mm, prosoma width: 2.3 mm.

Female

Prosoma yellow, darker in the middle, with a pair of brown stripes along margin. Vestibula oval and diverging anteriorly. Distance between vestibula and spermathecae is twice the diameter of vestibulum.

prosoma length: 3.0 mm, prosoma width: 2.8 mm.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Slovakia, Russia (Urals)
Figures
Distribution List
Russia, Eastern   (Svatoň et al., 2000) ||| Russia, Northern   (Svatoň et al., 2000; Pakhorukov & Utochkin, 1977) ||| Slovakia   (Svatoň et al., 2000) |||
References

Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1995) Remarks on the Ural spider fauna, 4. New records of spider species (excluding Linyphiidae) from the Urals (Arachnida Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 4(1): 71-91 pdf

Pakhorukov N M, Utochkin A S (1977) Four new for the USSR spider (Aranei) species from the northern Urals. Vestnik Zoologii 1977(4): 91-92 pdf

Svatoň J, Pekár S, Prídavka R (2000) Xysticus slovacus sp. n., a new thomisid spider from Slovakia (Araneae: Thomisidae). Acta Universitatis Carolinae Biologica 44: 157-162 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
14-10-2025 Distribution update Detail
09-10-2024 Distribution update Detail
20-06-2023 Image insert
06-04-2022 Gallery image insert
14-12-2021 Image insert
14-12-2021 Distribution insert Detail
14-12-2021 Distribution update Detail
10-05-2016 Datasheet update Detail
06-05-2014 Image insert