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Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Xysticus  C. L. Koch, 1835   82 species

Xysticus grallator Simon, 1932

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031910

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Description
Body length male: 5.1-7.5 mm
Body length female: 5.1-7.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Spain, France (Corsica), Italy
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Urones et al. 1983)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bauer et al. 2023)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bauer et al. 2023)

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female Epigyne
(Urones et al. 1983)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Carrillo et al. 2016)

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female Epigyne
(Bauer et al. 2023)

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female Vulva
(Urones et al. 1983)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Carrillo et al. 2016)

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female Vulva
(Bauer et al. 2023)

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Prosoma
(Urones et al. 1983)

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Prosoma
(Urones et al. 1983)

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Prosoma
(Urones et al. 1983)

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Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Urones et al. 1983)

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.

France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007; Kraus, 1955) ||| Italy   (Bauer et al., 2023) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Bauer T, Falato R, Pantini P (2023) Xysticus grallator Simon, 1932 new to mainland Italy (Araneae, Thomisidae). Check List 19: 713-718 pdf

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

Carrillo J, Ramos da Silva R, Ferrández M A (2016) Nuevas citas de Xysticus grallator Simon, 1932 (Araneae: Thomisidae) de la Península Ibérica. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 28: 129-133 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Kraus O (1955) Spinnen von Korsika, Sardinien und Elba (Arach., Araneae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 36: 371-394 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Urones C, Camargo M, Ferrández M A (1983) Presencia en la Península Ibérica de Xysticus grallator Simon 1914 (Araneida: Thomisidae), con comentarios acerca de las especies del género Xysticus pertenecientes al grupo 2.° de Simon 1914. Actas Congreso Ibérico de Entomología, León 1: 781-794 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
11-10-2023 Image insert
11-10-2023 Distribution insert Detail
11-10-2023 Distribution update Detail
14-01-2017 Image insert