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Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Thomisus  Walckenaer, 1805   7 species

Thomisus citrinellus  Simon, 1875

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031431

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Description
Male

Palpal tibia with 2 slightly curved spines with dark tips in retrolateral view. Body colouration whitish yellow. Eye tubercle white. Prosoma and legs rather spinous.

Body length male: 2.1-2.6 mm
Female

Opisthosoma sometimes with round black spots on each of the conical protuberances on posterior corners.

Body length female: 5-7.3 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Mediterranean, Africa, Seychelles, Yemen (mainland, Socotra), Iraq, Iran?
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Simon 1932)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy 1973)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Levy 1973)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Abdel-Ghani et al. 2023)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Abdel-Ghani et al. 2023)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Levy 1973)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Levy 1973)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Abdel-Ghani et al. 2023)

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.

Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| France   (no references) ||| Libya   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024) |||
References

Abdel-Ghani D M A, Hassan F M, Sallam G M E (2023) Spiders as a bio-agent factor in a mango greenhouse at Giza Governorate, Egypt. Serket 20: 26-38 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

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

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 pdf

Levy G (1973) Crab-spiders of six genera from Israel (Araneae: Thomisidae). Israel Journal of Zoology 22: 107-141 pdf

Simon E (1932) Les arachnides de France 6 (4). Paris (Roret): 773-978 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
23-04-2024 Image insert
23-04-2024 Distribution update Detail
18-02-2014 Image insert