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Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Psammitis  Menge, 1876   9 species

Psammitis albidus  (Grese, 1909)

Description
Male

Prosoma light brown, mottled with dark brown. Eye field light, median band yellowish white, anteriorly with brown marking. Legs grey-brown, femora with dark dorsal lines. Opisthosoma: dorsum yellowish brown, medially with some darker dots and a small white spot, posteriorly with indistinct chevrons.

Body length male: 4.1 mm
Female

Sides of prosoma brown, broad light greyish brown, anteriorly with brownish marking. Legs light reddish brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum grey-brown with 5 dark sigillae, venter light brown.

 

Body length female: 4.8-6 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Northern Europe, Russia (Europe, Siberia, Far East)
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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.

Finland   (Palmgren, 1950) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Russia, Northern   (no references) ||| Sweden   (Tullgren, 1944; Kronestedt, 2001) |||
References

Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129 pdf

Almquist S (2006) Swedish Araneae, part 2 – families Dictynidae to Salticidae. Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 63: 285-601 pdf

Holm Å (1970) Notes on spiders collected by the "Vega" Expedition 1878-1880. Entomologica Scandinavica 1: 188-208 pdf

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

Kulczyński W (1916) Araneae Sibiriae occidentalis arcticae. Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Petrograd (8) 28(11): 1-44 pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Marusik Y M (1989) Two new species of the spider genus Xysticus and synonymy of crab spiders (Aranei, Thomisidae, Philodromidae) from Siberia. Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal 68(4): 140-145 pdf

Palmgren P (1950) Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands und Ostfennoskandiens III. Acta Zoologica Fennica 62: 1-43 pdf

Tullgren A (1944) Svensk spindelfauna. 3. Egentiliga spinddlar. Araneae Fam 1-4. Salticidae, Thomisidae, Philodromidae och Eusparassidae. Stockholm (Entomol Fören.): 138 pp. 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
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