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Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Psammitis  Menge, 1876   13 species

Psammitis ninnii fusciventris (Crome, 1965)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032005

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Description
Male

Prosoma blackish brown, lighter in the middle. Chelicerae yellow-brown. Sternum whitish. Femora and patellae of legs I and II black, remaining segments yellowish brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum beige with a distinct brown stripe on each side.

Body length male: 4.0 mm
Female

Prosoma dark brown, lighter in the middle part. Sternum, chelicerae, legs and palps light yellow-brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum beige, without distinct markings, venter light yellow-brown.

Body length female: 5.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Turkey: by Demir (2008) as Xysticus ninnii fusciventris, by Danışman et al. (2025a) as Psammitis ninnii
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Eastern Europe to Mongolia
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Crome 1965)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Crome 1965)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ono & Martens 2005)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ono & Martens 2005)

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male Femur I, dorsal view
(Ono & Martens 2005)

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male Habitus, dorsal view
(Ono & Martens 2005)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Ono & Martens 2005)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Ono & Martens 2005)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Ono & Martens 2005)

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female Habitus, dorsal view
(Ono & Martens 2005)

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.

Russia, Southern   (Crome, 1965) |||
References

Crome W (1965) Studien an Krabbenspinnen (Araneae: Thomisidae) 5. Subspezifische Gliederung von Xysticus ninnii Thorell, 1872 und ein Versuch zur Zoogeographie der Unterarten Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift (N.F.) 12: 421-441 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

Demir H (2008) An updated checklist of the Thomisidae (Araneae) of Turkey with zoogeographical remarks. Serket 11: 37-50 pdf

Ono H, Martens J (2005) Crab spiders of the families Thomisidae and Philodromidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Iran. Acta Arachnologica 53: 109-124 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
09-11-2025 Distribution update Detail
03-12-2013 Distribution update Detail
03-12-2013 Image insert