Philodromidae  Thorell, 1869 / Philodromus  Walckenaer, 1826   53 species

Philodromus longipalpis Simon, 1870

Description

Prosoma female: brown, sometimes with small dark brown spots. Male: yellow-orange to light brown, eyes surrounded by slender, white rings. Sternum yellowish. Chelicerae light brown. Legs light brown. Opisthosoma female: pale brown. Male: light brown, with darker arrow-shaped spot, surrounded by white spots, laterally darker, ventrally pale brown to yellowish.

Body length male: 2.8-5.5 mm
Body length female: 2.8-7.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Records of P. longipalpis from Danmark (Lissner & Scharff 2017), UK, Netherlands and Belgium are counted as buchari, because longipalpis is a South-European species (Muster & Thaler 2004).
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Switzerland, Hungary, southern Europe, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia (Europe), Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Iran
Phenology
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Distribution List
Albania   (Kůrka et al., 2020) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022; Logunov & Huseynov, 2008) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018; Muster & Thaler, 2004) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Denmark  Removed (Lissner & Scharff, 2019) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| France / Corsica   (Muster & Thaler, 2004; Le Peru, 2007) ||| Georgia   (Seropian et al., 2023b) ||| Germany  Removed (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Greece   (Muster & Thaler, 2004) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans et al., 2013) ||| Hungary   (Samu & Szinetár, 1999; Mezőfi & Markó, 2019) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| North Macedonia   (Blagoev, 2002) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev et al., 2018a; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Serbia   (Grbić & Hänggi, 2023) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Muster & Thaler, 2004) ||| Ukraine   (Kovblyuk et al., 2016) |||
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