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Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Xysticus  C. L. Koch, 1835   83 species

Xysticus chippewa  Gertsch, 1953

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031843

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Description
Male

Retrolateral tibial apophysis broad, blunt. Ventral tibial apophysis oblique; Tegular apophyses close together. Embolus long, slender.

Prosoma greyish white with brown submedian stripes and margins, a pale area separates stripes from margin. Sternum yellow, suffused with brown. Legs yellowish. Opisthosoma creamy white, laterally spotted with brown, ventrally pale yellow, spotted with brown.

Body length male: 4.4 mm
Female

Colouration as in male. Vulva with short spermathecae.

Body length female: 3.6-4.4 mm
Additional information

In fens bogs, flood plains or meadows

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: not in Belarus (Dondale et al. 2006) - not referred by Ivanov (2013)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): North America, Northern Europe
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Dondale et al. 2006)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Dondale et al. 2006)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Dondale et al. 2006)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

species

male Tegular apophysis
(Dondale et al. 2006)

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male Tegular apophysis, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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male Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Dondale et al. 2006)

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female Epigyne
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Dondale et al. 2006)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Løvbrekke unpubl.)

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.

Estonia   (Dondale et al., 2006) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Latvia   (Cera, 2018) ||| Sweden   (Dondale et al., 2006; Kronestedt, 2001) |||
References

Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152 pdf

Dondale C D, Kronestedt T, Buckle D J (2006) Confirmation of the presence of Xysticus chippewa in Europe (Araneae, Thomisidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13: 361-364 pdf

Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311 pdf

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm pdf

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001] pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

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
08-08-2021 Image insert
25-05-2020 Distribution update Detail
26-10-2015 Distribution update Detail
28-04-2014 Distribution update Detail