Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Xysticus  C. L. Koch, 1835   86 species

Xysticus xerodermus  Strand, 1913

Description
Male

Prosoma red-brown, with a brown wedge-shaped marking enclosed by a yellowish median band. Prosoma length: 2.1-2.5 mm. Legs brown, mottled with white. Opisthosoma pale brown, dorsum with brown, dentate median band.

Body length male: 4.3-5.4 mm
Female

Colouration as in males, except opisthosoma: dorsal median band hardly visible. Prosoma length: 2.6-3.2 mm.

Body length female: 5.9-9.6 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Turkey, Israel, Iran
Phenology
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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.

Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

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

Levy G (1976) The spider genus Xysticus (Araneae: Thomisidae) in Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 25: 1-37 pdf

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

Schröder M, Chatzaki M, Buchholz S (2011) The spider fauna of the Aladjagiola wetland complex (Nestos Delta, north-east Greece): a reflection of a unique zoogeographical transition zone in Europe. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 102: 217-233 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
26-01-2016 Image insert
30-09-2015 Distribution update Detail