Philodromidae  Thorell, 1869 / Thanatus  C. L. Koch, 1837   37 species

Thanatus meronensis  Levy, 1977

Description
Male

Prosoma brown to reddish brown with wide, pale median area dorsally. Opisthosoma pale brown with distinct dark median lanceolate mark. Legs uniformly brownish yellow. Palp: Tibia with low, broad, retrolateral apophysis extending mesally to middle of tibia, upper edge of apophysis folds on itself, splitting distally into two pointed spines. Tegulum thick. Embolus thin and slightly curved.

Prosoma length: 1.5 mm, prosoma width: 1.5 mm.

Female

Colouration as in male. Epigyne: Relatively large. Median septum wide, opaque, almost parallel sided. Internal spermathecal organs visible through wide openings. Spermathecae large, close together, with reticulated surface.

Prosoma length: 1.9 mm, prosoma width: 1.9 mm.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Azerbaijan: misidentification of T. imbecillus (see Logunov & Huseynov 2008), the records from Bulgaria should be verified
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Bulgaria, Israel
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"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.

Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018; Deltshev et al., 2004) |||
References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Blagoev G (2004) Spiders (Araneae) from the eastern Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece). In Beron, P. & A. Popov (eds.) Biodiversity of Bulgaria. 2. Biodiversity of eastern Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece). Pensoft, Sofia, pp. 181-188 pdf

Logunov D V, Huseynov E F (2008) A faunistic review of the spider family Philodromidae (Aranei) of Azerbaijan. Arthropoda Selecta 17: 117-131 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
21-09-2021 Distribution update Detail
28-09-2016 Datasheet update Detail
12-11-2013 Image insert