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Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Thomisus  Walckenaer, 1805   7 species

Thomisus modestus Blackwall, 1870

Description
Male

Prosoma pale brownish yellow, glossy. Sternum heart-shaped. Legs pale yellowish with red-brown. Opisthosoma oviform, light yellowish-red, glossy, lighter ventrally, dorsally with a series of 6 slightly depressed, light brown spots on both sides.

Prosoma length: 1.6 mm, prosoma width: 1.6 mm.

Body length male: 3.2 mm
Female

Female unknown.

Additional information

Species inquirenda per Pantini & Isaia (2018).

No illustrations provided by the author.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Omitted from the Italian checklist by Pantini & Isaia (2019)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): 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.

Italy  Removed (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2018) Checklist of the Italian spiders (version June 2018). 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
22-03-2022 Image insert
22-03-2022 Distribution update Detail
12-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail