Thanatus kitabensis Charitonov, 1946
Description
Male
Prosoma brown, with ochre median band. Sternum and legs yellow. Opisthosoma ochre-yellow, with brown cardiac mark.
Body length male: 4.9-5.7 mmFemale
Colouration as in males.
Body length female: 5.5-8.1 mmDistribution
Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lyakhov 2000)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Esyunin et al. 2025a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Esyunin et al. 2025a)
Pedipalp, ventro-retrolateral view
(Esyunin et al. 2025a)
Tibial apophysis, dorsal view
(Lyakhov 2000)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Lyakhov 2000)
Epigyne
(Esyunin et al. 2025a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Esyunin et al. 2025a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Esyunin et al. 2025a)
Vulva, ventral view
(Esyunin et al. 2025a)
Spermatheca
(Lyakhov 2000)
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.
References
Esyunin, S. L., Efimik, V. E., Nekhaeva, A. A., Kim, L. V., Valuev, V. A., Kabdrakhimov, A. A., Tuneva, T. K. & Akhmedenov, K. M (2025a) New data on the spider (Arachnida: Aranei) fauna of Mangystau Oblast, Kazakhstan. Arthropoda Selecta 34: 426-446 
Logunov D V, Huseynov E F (2008) A faunistic review of the spider family Philodromidae (Aranei) of Azerbaijan. Arthropoda Selecta 17: 117-131
Lyakhov O V (2000) Contribution to the Middle Asian fauna of the spider genus Thanatus C. L. Koch, 1837 (Aranei: Philodromidae). Arthropoda Selecta 8: 221-230
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
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.
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2