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Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Heriaeus  Simon, 1875   15 species

Heriaeus numidicus Loerbroks, 1983

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030444

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Description
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Libya: as H. setiger in Elkrew et al. (2024), interpretation sensu Loerbroks (1983).
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Loerbroks 1983)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Loerbroks 1983)

species

female Epigyne
(Loerbroks 1983)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Loerbroks 1983)

Distribution List
Algeria   (Loerbroks, 1983; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Libya   (Elkrew et al., 2024) ||| Morocco   (Loerbroks, 1983; Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Kmira et al., 2025) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Elkrew H, Hamza A, Ghana S, Shaibi T, Swehli A I, Elmareme H, Ahmad A (2024) Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Libya. Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences 22: 19346-19369 pdf

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 pdf

Loerbroks A (1983) Revision der Krabbenspinnen-Gattung Heriaeus Simon (Arachnida, Araneae, Thomisidae). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 26: 85-139 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
06-11-2025 Distribution update Detail
25-02-2022 Distribution insert Detail
25-11-2021 Image insert
17-06-2020 Distribution insert Detail