Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Thomisus  Walckenaer, 1805   7 species

Thomisus zyuzini Marusik & Logunov, 1990

Beschreibung
Männchen

Prosoma dunkelbraun, mit Setae bedeckt, Rand mit Zähnchen. Augenbereich gelb, Clypeus hellbraun. Beine I und II dunkelbraun, Tarsi gelb, Beine III und IV gelb. Opisthosoma cremefarben mit braunen Setae.

Körperlänge Männchen: 1.3 mm
Weibchen

Prosoma gelb mit hellgelbem Mittelband. Prosomalänge: 2.75 mm. Cheliceren und Pedipalpen weisslich. Beine gelb, ventral weisslich, Patella I und II pro- und retrolateral weisslich.

Verbreitung
  Vorkommen
  kein Nachweis
Weltweite Verbreitung (WSC 2026): Algeria, Turkey, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Iran, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Mongolia
Phänologie
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 male  female
Abbildungen
Verbreitungsnachweise
Algeria   (Dekkoumi et al., 2026) ||| Azerbaijan   (Nuruyeva & Zamani, 2025) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Demir et al., 2008b) |||
Literatur

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 (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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