Xysticus loeffleri Roewer, 1955
Description
Male
Prosoma and sternum red-brown. with yellow stripes and a white band between the eyes. Maxillae, labium and coxae yellow-brown. Chelicerae red-brown. Legs: femora and tibiae red-brown, metatarsi and tarsi cream-coloured. Opisthosoma cream-coloured, dorsum with 4 wide transverse spots.
Female
Colouration lighter than in males. Prosoma red-brown with yellow stripes. Sternum, maxillae, labium, chelicerae and legs light yellow. Opisthosoma: dorsum grey with dark and white transverse stripes, venter cream-coloured.
Additional information
under stones in montane phrygana
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Marusik & Logunov 1990)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Marusik & Logunov 1990)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Marusik & Logunov 1990)
References
Helsdingen P J van (2010a) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org
Logunov D V (2012) Notes on a small spider collection from Turkey (Arachnida: Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 21: 375-377
Marusik Y M, Logunov D V (1990) The crab spiders of middle Asia, USSR (Aranei, Thomisidae). 1. Descriptions and notes on distribution of some species. Korean Arachnol 6: 31-62
Otto S (2017) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 08.2017. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Russell-Smith A, Allison R, Askins M, Blumsom W, Snazell R, Spilling C (2011) A provisional checklist and gazetteer of the spiders of Chios, Greece (Arachnida: Araneae). Bull Br Arachnol Soc 15: 133-167
World Spider Catalog (2018) World Spider Catalog, version 19.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (15.07.2018) doi: 10.24436/2