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

Xysticus ibex  Simon, 1875

Description

Male palp with uniformly slender, hook-shaped median tegular apophysis, lateral tegular apophysis appearing flat. Tibial apophysis bipartite, compact and blunt, one originating ventrally, the other retrolaterally. Prosoma bright, brown and very bright respectively, with V-shaped, long, narrow, cream pattern. Eyes with black background with cream eye band. Sternum bright yellow-brown or colourless respectively (paled) with bristles on margin. Legs yellow-brown to brown, dorsal longitudinal stripes visible. Femur ventrally with bright longitudinal line. Opisthosoma bright yellow-beige (can be paled) with white margin and light grey leaf-pattern, with 5 sigilla.

Body length male: 2.6-3.2 mm
Body length female: 5.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain, France, Italy
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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   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019; Pantini et al., 2013) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

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

Breitling R (2018) Eric Duffey's spider collection in the Manchester Museum – an update. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 141: 5-9 pdf

Jantscher E (2001a) Revision der Krabbenspinnengattung Xysticus C.L. Koch, 1835 (Araneae, Thomisidae) in Zentraleuropa. Dissertation, Univ. Graz, 328 pp., 81 pls. pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Pantini P, Sassu A, Serra G (2013) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida Araneae) of Sardinia. Biodiversity Journal 4: 3-104 pdf

Urones C (1985) Aportaciones al conocimiento de la distribución de los Thomisidae (Araneae) en la Península Ibérica. Actas Congreso Ibérico de Entomología, León 2: 449-458 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
14-12-2021 Distribution update Detail
16-04-2018 Image insert
25-06-2013 Distribution update Detail