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Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Xysticus  C. L. Koch, 1835   83 species

Xysticus edax  (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031873

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Description

Lateral parts of prosoma brown to dark brown, mottled with white; yellowish, wedge-shaped marking in dorsal part. Legs brown to dark brown, mottled with white. Opisthosoma: dorsum with light, dentate median band, sides brown.

Body length male: 2.9-3.6 mm
Body length female: 5.2-7.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Turkey, Israel, Iraq, Iran
Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy 1985)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Levy 1985)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Levy 1985)

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female Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Levy 1985)

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female Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Levy 1985)

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female Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Levy 1985)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Levy 1985)

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female Vulva, variation, dorsal view
(Levy 1985)

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.

Albania   (Deltshev et al., 2011b) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024a) |||
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 (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Deltshev C, Vrenozi B, Blagoev G, Lazarov S (2011b) Spiders of Albania – faunistic and zoogeographical review (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 63: 125-144 pdf

Levy G (1985) Araneae: Thomisidae. In Fauna Palaestina, Arachnida II. Israel Academy of Sciences and Jerusalem, 115 pp. 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
13-02-2015 Image insert
13-05-2014 Distribution update Detail