Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Heriaeus  Simon, 1875   15 species

Heriaeus horridus  Tystshenko, 1965

Description
Male

Ventral apophysis wide and with tip bent medially. Retrolateral apophysis axe-shaped, blunt, in middle with heel-like semi-apophysis. Groove of tegulum flat, not directly at the edge of tegulum. Inner edge of pars pendula slightly sclerotized. Tip of embolus large, bent back dorsad.

Prosoma length: 1.5 mm, prosoma width: 1.5 mm.

Female

Epigyne with oval groove, not a protruding hood. Deep wrinkle behind groove, receptacles standing laterally to it.

Prosoma length: 2.7-2.9 mm, prosoma width: 2.6-2.7 mm.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Ukraine, Russia (Europe to West Siberia), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
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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.

Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Ukraine   (Nadolny, 2020) |||
References

Loerbroks A (1983) Revision der Krabbenspinnen-Gattung Heriaeus Simon (Arachnida, Araneae, Thomisidae). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 26: 85-139 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, Logunov D V (1995a) The crab spiders of Middle Asia (Aranei, Thomisidae), 2. Beiträge zur Araneologie 4: 133-175 pdf

Nadolny A A (2020) [New data on the species composition of spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) in Tarkhankut Peninsula, Crimea]. Proceedings of T. I. Vyazemsky Karadag scientific station - Natural reserve of the RAS 3(15): 29-60 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

Tyschchenko V P (1965) A new genus and new species of spiders (Aranei) from Kazakhstan. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 44: 696-704 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
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