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Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Cozyptila  Lehtinen & Marusik, 2005   3 species

Cozyptila guseinovorum Marusik & Kovblyuk, 2005

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040713

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Description
Male

Pedipalp: retroventral apophysis subdivided, lateral apophysis relatively short. Embolus thick. Prosoma with uniformly dark sides or with broken sublateral bands, clypeus with 6 macrosetae, prosoma length: 1.5mm.

Body length male: 2.8 mm
Female

Colouration lighter than in males. Prosoma length: 1.9 mm.

Body length female: 4.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Ukraine, Russia (Europe), Turkey, Caucasus
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Marusik et al. 2005c)

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male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Marusik et al. 2005c)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Marusik et al. 2005c)

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male Pedipalp, antero-ventral view
(Zarikian et al. 2023b)

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male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Zarikian et al. 2023b)

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male Pedipalp with tibia, patella and femur, prolateral view
(Zarikian et al. 2023b)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Zarikian et al. 2023b)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Marusik et al. 2005c)

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female Epigyne
(Zarikian et al. 2023b)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Marusik et al. 2005c)

Distribution List
Armenia   (Zarikian et al., 2023b) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a; Logunov & Demir, 2006) ||| Ukraine   (Marusik et al., 2005c) |||
References

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

Logunov D V, Demir H (2006) Further faunistic notes on Cozyptila and Xysticus from Turkey (Araneae, Thomisidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 31: 40-45 pdf

Marusik Y M, Lehtinen P T, Kovblyuk M M (2005c) Cozyptila, a new genus of crab spiders (Aranei: Thomisidae: Thomisinae: Coriarachnini) from the western Palaearctic. Arthropoda Selecta 13: 151-163 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

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 (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Zarikian N A, Kosyan A, Marusik Y M (2023b) New records of spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) from Armenia. 1. Ten genera and 20 species of the families Araneidae, Theridiidae and Thomisidae. Euroasian Entomological Journal 22: 141-149 pdf

Updates
30-10-2023 Image insert
28-10-2023 Distribution insert Detail
12-01-2022 Distribution update Detail
16-02-2015 Distribution update Detail