Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Ozyptila  Simon, 1864   52 species

Ozyptila tuberosa  (Thorell, 1875)

Description
Male

Colouration variable. Prosoma dark red-brown or brown. Eye field white or red-brown, with white eye tubercles. Sternum, labium and maxillae dark red-brown or cream-coloured with red-brown spots. Legs: femora and patella I red-brown with white spots dorsally, femora I-IV with red-brown annulation, tarsi and metatarsi cream-coloured. Opisthosoma: dorsum white with red-brown triangular spot, venter white or red-brown. Spinnerets white or red-brown.

Body length male: 4.5-4.7 mm
Female

Body sandy-grey. Legs with a red-brown hue.

Body length female: 5.5-8.7 mm
Additional information

Removed from the synonym of Ozyptila lugubris (Kroneberg, 1875).

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Record from Bulgaria needs to be confirmed (Marusik & Mikhailov 2021)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Ukraine, Russia (Europe), Caucasus, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria?
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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.

Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Russia, Central   (Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Demir & Seyyar, 2020) ||| Ukraine   (Marusik & Mikhailov, 2021) |||
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

Demir H, Seyyar O (2020) A new record of Ozyptila lugubris (Kroneberg, 1875) (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Turkey. Serket 17: 227-229 pdf

Demir H, Seyyar O (2022) A further study on female of Ozyptila tuberosa (Thorell, 1875) (Aranea: Thomisidae) from Turkey. Munis Entomology and Zoology 17: 1372-1374 pdf

Marusik Y M, Logunov D V (1990) The crab spiders of Middle Asia, USSR (Aranei, Thomisidae). 1. Descriptions and notes on distribution of some species. Korean Arachnology 6: 31-62 pdf

Marusik Y M, Mikhailov K G (2021) Revalidation of Xysticus tuberosus Thorell, 1875 (Aranei: Thomisidae) with notes on the related species. Arthropoda Selecta 30: 119-124 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Polchaninova N, Gnelitsa V, Terekhova V, Iosypchuk A (2021) New and rare spider species (Arachnida, Araneae) from Ukraine. Zoodiversity 55: 95-112 pdf

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Ponomarev A V, Shmatko V Y (2021) New data on the fauna and taxonomy of spiders (Aranei) in southern Russia. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 17: 211-218 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

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