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Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Xysticus  C. L. Koch, 1835   86 species

Xysticus sjostedti  Schenkel, 1936

Description
Male

Prosoma dark brown, with yellow-brown median band. Prosoma length: 2.45 mm. Sternum and chelicerae yellow with numerous brown spots. Legs I-III dark brown, leg IV dorsally white, ventrally brown. Opisthosoma cream-brown, dorsum with 4 triangular brown spots.

Female

Prosoma with brown sides, cephalic part yellow-brownish with brown spots on its end, thoracic part white. Prosoma length: 3.65 mm. Chelicerae yellow with brown spots. Legs yellow-brownish with white lines on dorsal and vetral side. Opisthosoma sand brown, dorsum with fine brown lines.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Russia (Europe to north-eastern Siberia), Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China
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.

Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev, 2022) |||
References

Logunov D V, Marusik Y M (1994b) A faunistic review of the crab spiders (Araneae, Thomisidae) from the mountains of south Siberia. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (Ent.) 64: 177-197 pdf

Mikhailov K G (2013) The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262 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

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
04-06-2015 Image insert