Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Xysticus  C. L. Koch, 1835   86 species

Xysticus ovatus  Simon, 1876

Description

Prosoma dark brown on sides, mottled with whitish yellow, whitish yellow median band enclosing a wedge-shaped marking of dark brown colour suffused with whitish yellow and pale brown. Prosoma sometimes reddish. Prosoma length: 2.10-2.34 mm. Legs yellowish brown, marbled and streaked with dark brown. Opisthosoma yellowish white, folium brown with dark brown margin.

Body length male: 4.0-4.6 mm
Body length female: 7.7-8.3 mm
Additional information

Montane grassland, 2300 m a.s.l.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): France
Phenology
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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.

France   (no references) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Bosmans R, Jacobs J (1985) Description of the unknown male of Xysticus ovatus Simon from the French Pyrénées (Araneae: Thomisidae). Phegea 13: 121-124 pdf

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

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

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
26-01-2016 Image insert