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Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Thomisus  Walckenaer, 1805   7 species

Thomisus zyuzini Marusik & Logunov, 1990

Description
Male

Prosoma dark brown, covered with setae, margin with denticles. Ocular area yellow, clypeus light brown. Legs I and II dark brown with yellow tarsi, legs III and IV yellow. Opisthosoma cream coloured with brown setae.

Body length male: 1.3 mm
Female

Prosoma yellow, with light yellow median band. Prosoma length: 2.75 mm. Chelicerae and palps whitish. Legs yellow, ventral side whitish, patellae I and II whitish on pro- and retrolateral side.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Algeria, Turkey, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Iran, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Mongolia
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.

Algeria   (Dekkoumi et al., 2026) ||| Azerbaijan   (Nuruyeva & Zamani, 2025) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Demir et al., 2008b) |||
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

Dekkoumi B, Alioua Y, Meddour S (2026) Additions to the spider fauna (Araneae) of Algeria: first records of five species from the northern Sahara. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 12: 109-121 pdf

Demir H, Aktas M, Topçu A (2008b) Two thomisid species new to the Turkish spider fauna: Ozyptila tricoloripes Strand, 1913 and Thomisus zyuzini Marusik & Logunov, 1990 (Araneae: Thomisidae). Turkish Journal of Arachnology 1(1): 44-48 pdf

Kiany N, Sadeghi S, Kiany M, Zamani A, Ostovani S (2017) Additions to the crab spider fauna of Iran (Araneae: Thomisidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 53: 1-8 pdf

Marusik Y M, Logunov D V (1990) The crab spiders of Middle Asia, USSR (Aranei, Thomisidae). 1. Descriptions and notes on distribution of some species. Korean Arachnology 6: 31-62 pdf

Marusik Y M, Logunov D V (1995a) The crab spiders of Middle Asia (Aranei, Thomisidae), 2. Beiträge zur Araneologie 4: 133-175 pdf

Nuruyeva T, Zamani A (2025) An annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Azerbaijan. Zootaxa 5680: 1-168 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
13-02-2026 Image insert
11-02-2026 Distribution insert Detail
19-08-2025 Distribution insert Detail
21-12-2020 Distribution update Detail
26-01-2016 Image insert