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

Xysticus britcheri Gertsch, 1934

Description
Body length male: 4.5 mm
Female

Prosoma light brown to grey, with brown lateral bands and a light median stripe. Legs light brown, femoram patellae and tarsi with median and lateral white narrow longitudinal stripes. Opisthosoma light brown, with white lateral bands and a lighter median stripe, caudally with 3 white bands.

Body length female: 5.0 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Russia (Europe to Far East), Alaska, Canada, USA
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"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.

Belarus   (Dondale et al., 2006) ||| Russia, Eastern  Removed (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Russia, Northern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) |||
References

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

Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1996a) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Urals. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 228 pp. pdf

Gertsch W J (1934) Notes on American crab spiders (Thomisidae). American Museum Novitates 707: 1-25 pdf

Marusik Y M, Logunov D V (1996) Poorly known spider species of the families Salticidae and Thomisidae (Aranei) of the Soviet Far East. In Entomological Studies in the North-East of the USSR. USSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Vladivostok, pp. 131-140. 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
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