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
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Logunov & Marusik 1994b)
Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Logunov & Marusik 1994b)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Logunov & Marusik 1994b)
Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Logunov & Marusik 1994b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Logunov & Marusik 1994b)
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, Mazura N S (1999) Remarks on the Ural spider fauna, 10. New records of spider species (Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 7: 319-327 
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
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
Updates
| 12-11-2025 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 04-06-2015 | Image insert |