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Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Bassaniodes  Pocock, 1903   23 species

Bassaniodes anatolicus (Demir, Aktaş & Topçu, 2008)

Description
Male

Prosoma reddish-brown with dark brown spots and yellow V-shaped mark. Eye tubercles creamy-coloured, margins of prosoma brown. Chelicerae light brown with dark brown spots. Sternum, labium and maxillae brown with black spots. Legs; femora and patellae I and II reddish with black spots, tibia I and II yellow with brown spots, distally lighter than proximally, metatarsi and tarsi yellow, femora, patellae and tibia III and IV yellow with brown spots, metatarsi and tarsi creamy-coloured. Dorsum of abdomen white with black and brown spots and stripes, venter of abdomen with black and brown spots. Spinnerets yellow brown, branchial opercula light brown

Body length male: 5.48 mm
Female

Unknown.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Turkey
Figures
Distribution List
Turkey (Asia)   (Demir et al., 2008e; Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
References

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Demir H, Aktaş M, Topçu A (2008e) Xysticus anatolicus n. sp. (Araneae: Thomisidae), a new species from Turkey. Entomological News 119: 287-290 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
17-11-2024 Distribution update Detail
22-05-2019 Datasheet update Detail
18-05-2019 Image insert
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