Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Bassaniodes  Pocock, 1903   23 species

Bassaniodes pseudorectilineus (Wunderlich, 1995)

Description
Male

Prosoma dark red-brown, with yellowish spotsand yellow V-shaped mark. Prosoma length: 1.95-2.20 mm. Sternum yellow with small brown spots. Chelicerae brown to yellow. Legs brown, I-II dark brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum black-brown, with white transverse bands.

Female

Prosoma brown with yellowish spots and yellow V-shaped mark. Prosoma length: 2.90-3.00 mm. Sternum yellow with small brown spots. Chelicerae yellow with brown spots. Legs yellow, with brown dorsal stripes and red-brown spots. Opisthosoma: dorsum light brown with dark brown and black spots and transverse stripes.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Georgia
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Georgia   (Seropian et al., 2024a) ||| Greece   (Bosmans et al., 2009) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
References

Bosmans R, Baert L, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H, Maelfait J-P, Van Keer J (2009) Spiders of Lesbos (Greece). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 24(suppl.): 1-70 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

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Demir H, Aktas M, Seyyar O (2008c) The female of Xysticus pseudorectilineus (Wunderlich, 1995) (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Turkey. Zootaxa 1674: 65-68 pdf

Seropian A, Bulbulashvili N, Krammer H-J, Thormann J, Hein N, Karalashvili L, Karalashvili N, Datunashvili A (2024a) Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus Barcode of Life (CaBoL) project. Part III. Caucasiana 3: 89-118 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 (1995b) Zur Kenntnis west-paläarktischer Arten der Gattungen Psammitis Menge 1875, Xysticus C. L. Koch 1835 und Ozyptila Simon 1864 (Arachnida: Araneae: Thomisidae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 4: 749-774 pdf

Updates
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