Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Cozyptila  Lehtinen & Marusik, 2005   3 species

Cozyptila nigristernum  (Dalmas, 1922)

Description
Male

Prosoma, chelicerae and sternum brown, in some specimens prosoma with light median spot, prosoma length: 1.4-4.7 mm. Legs: femur, patella and Tibia brown with white dorso-distal margin. Opisthosoma variegated.

Body length male: 2-3 mm
Female

Colouration lighter than in males. Prosoma with broad light band and 2 yellow sublateral bands. Prosoma length: 1.6 mm.

Body length female: 3.0-4.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Italy, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Ukraine
Phenology
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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.

Albania   (Deltshev et al., 2011b) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Greece   (Komnenov et al., 2016) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019; Trotta, 2020) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024a; Logunov & Demir, 2006) ||| Ukraine   (Marusik et al., 2005c) |||
References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) 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

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

Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144 pdf

Komnenov M, Pitta E, Zografou K, Chatzaki M (2016) Discovering the still unexplored arachnofauna of the National Park of Dadia-Lefkimi-Soufli, NE Greece: a taxonomic review with description of new species. Zootaxa 4096: 1-66 pdf

Logunov D V, Demir H (2006) Further faunistic notes on Cozyptila and Xysticus from Turkey (Araneae, Thomisidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 31: 40-45 pdf

Marusik Y M, Lehtinen P T, Kovblyuk M M (2005c) Cozyptila, a new genus of crab spiders (Aranei: Thomisidae: Thomisinae: Coriarachnini) from the western Palaearctic. Arthropoda Selecta 13: 151-163 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Trotta A (2020) Spiders from Molise (Italy): state of knowledge, new faunistic data and taxonomic notes (Arachnida: Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 52: 77-83 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
12-01-2022 Distribution update Detail
16-04-2020 Image insert
16-04-2020 Distribution insert Detail
16-04-2020 Distribution update Detail