Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Diaea  Thorell, 1869   2 species

Diaea livens  Simon, 1876

Description

Tibial apophysis with V-shaped groove between the 2 processes. Embolus with angular tip. Epigyne with tongue-like protruding part. Prosoma eye region white, female: reddish (yellow-brown in alcohol), male: with 2 dark longitudinal stripes. Legs with dark annulations. Opisthosoma cream-yellow, laterally and posteriorly with red-brown pattern (vanishes in alcohol), pattern stronger pronounced in males.

Body length male: 4.2 mm
Body length female: 5.8 mm
Additional information

Almost exclusively on oaks.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Southern and Central Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Iran. Introduced to USA
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) ||| Austria   (no references) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Czechia   (Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| France   (no references) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Greece   (Buchholz, 2013) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999; Mezőfi & Markó, 2018) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Kosovo   (Geci & Naumova, 2021b) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev & Shmatko, 2023b) ||| Serbia   (Tomić & Grbić, 2008; Grbić & Savić, 2010) ||| Slovakia   (no references) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Switzerland   (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024) ||| Turkey (Europe)   (Danışman et al., 2024) ||| Ukraine   (no references) |||
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

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

Buchar J, Thaler K (1984) Eine zweite Diaea-Art in Mitteleuropa: Diaea pictilis (Araneida, Thomisidae). Věstník Československé Zoologické Společnosti v Praze 48: 1-8 pdf

Buchholz S (2013) Spider records from East Macedonia and Thrace (NE Greece). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 45: 45-53 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

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

Geci D, Naumova M (2021b) A preliminary checklist of the spiders of Kosovo (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologia Balkanica, Special Edition 4: 11-28 pdf

Grbić G, Savić D (2010) Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna (Arachnida, Araneae) on the Fruška Gora Mt. Acta Entomologica Serbica 15: 243-260 pdf

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

Mezőfi L, Markó V (2018) Some rare and remarkable spider species from Hungary (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 55: 1-9 pdf

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

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

Ponomarev A V, Shmatko V Y (2023b) Two new species and new records of spiders (Aranei) in Dagestan (Russia). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 19: 213-219 pdf

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html pdf

Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184 pdf

Tomić V, Grbić G (2008) Preliminary notes on spider fauna of Mt. Fruska Gora. In: Ćurĉić S, Šimić S (eds.) Invertebrates (Invertebrata) of the Fruska Gora Mountain I. Matica Srpska, Novi Sad, pp. 57-62 pdf

Urones C (2000) El género Diaea Thorell, 1869 (Araneae, Thomisidae) en la Península Ibérica. Boletín de la Asociación Española de Entomología 24: 85-96 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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