Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Runcinia  Simon, 1875   4 species

Runcinia grammica (C. L. Koch, 1837)

Beschreibung
Männchen

Prosoma: grau-braun, mit 2 dunklen Längsstreifen. Tarsus und Metatarsus I-II: dunkelbraun, schwarz geringelt. Opisthosoma: grau-braun.

Körperlänge Männchen: 3.3-4.6 mm
Weibchen

Prosoma: braun-grau, dorsal mit 2 dunkelbraunen bis schwarzen Längsstreifen und heller Mitte. Opisthosoma: rotbraun mit weißer Zeichnung aus 3 divergierenden, unregelmäßigen Längsstreifen. 

Körperlänge Weibchen: 5.4-7.6 mm
Zusätzliche Informationen

In Gras und Gebüsch

Verbreitung
  Vorkommen
  kein Nachweis
Weltweite Verbreitung (WSC 2026): Europe, North Africa, Middle East to Iran, Russia (Europe to West Siberia), Kazakhstan, Central Asia, China, Japan. Introduced to St. Helena, South Africa, Lesotho
Abbildungen
Verbreitungsnachweise
Albania   (Deltshev et al., 2011b; Vrenozi, 2012; Blick, 2018) ||| Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023; Beladjal et al., 2025) ||| Armenia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Belarus   (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Bosnia and Herzegovina   (Stanković & Ćurĉić, 2020) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans et al., 2013) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Kosovo   (Geci & Naumova, 2021b) ||| Libya   (Elkrew et al., 2024) ||| Malta   (Pfliegler et al., 2017) ||| Moldova   (Vasiliev & Mikhailov, 2023) ||| Montenegro   (Naumova et al., 2019a) ||| Morocco   (Denis, 1956b; Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| North Macedonia   (Komnenov, 2014) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Russia, Central   (no references) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Serbia   (Stanković, 2023) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Switzerland   (Hänggi et al., 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) ||| Turkey (Europe)   (Demircan Aksan & Topçu, 2022c) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
Literatur

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