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Philodromidae  Thorell, 1869 / Thanatus  C. L. Koch, 1837   36 species

Thanatus lesserti (Roewer, 1951)

Description
Male

Prosoma length: 1.4 mm, prosoma width: 1.3 mm.

Body length male: 3.0-3.1 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 1.4 mm, prosoma width: 1.3 mm.

Body length female: 3.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Turkey, Egypt to Iran
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Distribution List
Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
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

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 pdf

Levy G (1991) On some new and uncommon spiders from Israel (Araneae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 8: 227-232 pdf

Logunov D V (2011) Notes on the Philodromidae (Araneae) of the United Arab Emirates. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 315: 441-451 pdf

Logunov D V, Kunt K B (2010) Taxonomic-faunistic notes on the Philodromidae (Aranei) of Turkey. Arthropoda Selecta 19: 11-20 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
08-12-2024 Distribution update Detail
12-11-2013 Image insert