Philodromidae  Thorell, 1869 / Philodromus  Walckenaer, 1826   56 species

Philodromus krausi  Muster & Thaler, 2004

Description
Male

Prosoma orange-brown with V-shaped marking behind the eyes. Sternum pale yellow-brown. Legs orange-brown. Opisthosoma light grey, covered with metallic gold hairs, cardiac mark inconspicuous.

Body length male: 4.25-4.5 mm
Female

Prosoma with broad yellowish median band, sides brown. Legs: distal half of femora and distal segments with dark brown spots and stripes. Opisthosoma: dorsum whitish, with yellow and brown dots, posterior half with a large grey patch, sides flecked with dark grey.

Body length female: 5.4-6.0 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Albania, Greece, Turkey
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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.

Albania   (Kůrka et al., 2020) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024) |||
References

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Komnenov M, Pitta E, Zografou K, Chatzaki M (2016) Discovering the still unexplored arachnofauna of the National Park of Dadia-Lefkimi-Soufli, NE Greece: a taxonomic review with description of new species. Zootaxa 4096: 1-66 pdf

Kůrka A, Naumova M, Indzhov S, Deltshev C (2020) New faunistic and taxonomic data on the spider fauna of Albania (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 8-21 pdf

Muster C, Thaler K (2004) New species and records of Mediterranean Philodromidae (Arachnida, Araneae): I. Philodromus aureolus group. In Thaler, K. (ed.), Diversität und Biologie von Webspinnen, Skorpionen und anderen Spinnentieren. Denisia 12: 305-326 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
29-04-2020 Image insert
29-04-2020 Distribution insert Detail
18-04-2016 Distribution update Detail
25-06-2013 Datasheet update Detail
25-06-2013 Image insert