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Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Heriaeus  Simon, 1875   15 species

Heriaeus buffoni (Audouin, 1826)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030430

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Description
Male

Pedipalp with distinct ventral and retrolateral apophyses. Tip of embolus stout, twisted backwards. Prosoma length: 2.0-2.3 mm, prosoma width: 1.9-2.2 mm. Body colouration light yellow to white.

Body length male: 3.8-4.6 mm
Female

Epigyne rather flat, hood-shaped, with membraneous folds on both sides. Epigyneal groove shallow. Conspicuous copulatory openings situated at posterior part of epigynal plate. Prosoma length: 2.2 mm, prosoma width: 2.2 mm.

Body length female: 5.9 mm
Additional information

On forbs and bushes in desert habitats.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Canary Is., Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Iraq, Iran
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy 1973)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Levy 1973)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Loerbroks 1983)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Loerbroks 1983)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Suárez et al. 2022)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Suárez et al. 2022)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Suárez et al. 2022)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Suárez et al. 2022)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Zamani et al. 2022b)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Zamani et al. 2022b)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Levy 1973)

species

female Epigyne
(Loerbroks 1983)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Levy 1973)

species

female Vulva
(Loerbroks 1983)

Distribution List
Algeria   (Loerbroks, 1983; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Egypt   (Loerbroks, 1983; El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| Morocco   (Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Tunisia   (Kmira et al., 2025) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
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

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

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 pdf

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

Levy G (1973) Crab-spiders of six genera from Israel (Araneae: Thomisidae). Israel Journal of Zoology 22: 107-141 pdf

Loerbroks A (1983) Revision der Krabbenspinnen-Gattung Heriaeus Simon (Arachnida, Araneae, Thomisidae). Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 26: 85-139 pdf

Suárez D, Zarzosa M Á, Oromí P (2022) First report of Heriaeus buffoni (Araneae: Thomisidae) from the Canary Islands. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 63: 11-14 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

Zamani A, Nadolny A A, Dolejš P (2022b) New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part X. Arachnology 19: 551-573 pdf

Updates
06-11-2025 Distribution update Detail
12-07-2022 Image insert
06-06-2022 Datasheet update Detail
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