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Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Ozyptila  Simon, 1864   54 species

Ozyptila elegans (Blackwall, 1870)

Description
Male

Prosoma glossy, pale brownish-yellow, median line palest, with irregular black band. Sternum heart-shaped, light, slightly greenish. Legs pale yellow, slightly greenish, with few red-brown annuli. Opisthosoma oviform, yellowish-white. Palp: tibia with two apophyses, the upper one much longer and bifid.

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 (2015).

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Omitted from the Italian checklist by Pantini & Isaia (2015)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy
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"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   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

Blackwall J (1870b) A list of spiders captured by Professor E. Perceval Wright, M. D., in the Province of Lucca, in Tuscany, in the summer of 1863, with characters of such species as appear to be new or little known to arachnologists. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 10: 405-434 pdf

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

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
19-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail
16-11-2015 Image insert