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Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Bassaniodes  Pocock, 1903   23 species

Bassaniodes rectilineus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032046

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Description
Male

Prosoma brown to dark red. Opisthosoma white with dark, broad transverse stripes.

Body length male: 4.2-5.1 mm
Female

Prosoma yellowish brown. Opisthosoma white with light bands in posterior part.

Body length female: 5.1-9.4 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Iran
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy 1985)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Levy 1985)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Levy 1985)

species

female Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Levy 1985)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Levy 1985)

Distribution List
Libya   (Caporiacco, 1934; Elkrew et al., 2024) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
References

Caporiacco L di (1934) Missione zoologica del Dott. E. Festa in Cirenaica. Aracnidi. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Università di Torino 44: 121-146 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

Elkrew H, Hamza A, Ghana S, Shaibi T, Swehli A I, Elmareme H, Ahmad A (2024) Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Libya. Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences 22: 19346-19369 pdf

Levy G (1985) Araneae: Thomisidae. In Fauna Palaestina, Arachnida II. Israel Academy of Sciences and Jerusalem, 115 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

Updates
08-06-2025 Distribution update Detail
09-01-2024 Distribution update Detail
12-02-2015 Image insert