Philodromidae  Thorell, 1869 / Philodromus  Walckenaer, 1826   53 species

Philodromus blanckei (Wunderlich, 1995)

Description

Tibial apophysis elongated and characteristically shaped. Epigynal grooves long, lateral margins concave. Prosoma yellowish to whitish with dark margins posteriorly, densely covered with white hairs and black bristles, especially in females. Sternum yellowish-brown. Legs yellowish-brown, mottled. Opisthosoma whitish grey with chevron markings in posterior half, black laterally, light grey to yellowish ventrally, like the spinnerets.

Body length male: 4.4-5.0 mm
Body length female: 5.4-7.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France (Corsica), Italy (incl. Sardinia)
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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.

France / Corsica   (Wunderlich, 1995a) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

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

Muster C (2009a) Phylogenetic relationships within Philodromidae, with a taxonomic revision of Philodromus subgenus Artanes in the western Palearctic (Arachnida: Araneae). Invertebrate Systematics 23: 135-169 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

Wunderlich J (1995a) Zur Kenntnis der Endemiten, zur Evolution und zur Biogeographie der Spinnen Korsikas und Sardiniens, mit Neubeschreibungen (Arachnida: Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 4: 353-383 pdf

Updates
08-05-2024 Distribution update Detail