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Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Monaeses  Thorell, 1869   2 species

Monaeses israeliensis  Levy, 1973

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030759

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Description
Male

Ventral tibial apophysis slightly bent, tip a rounded knob. Retrolateral tibial apophysis star-shaped apically. Prosoma length: 2.1 mm, prosoma width: 1.4 mm. Body colouration yellow-grey or white-grey. Opisthosoma somewhat darker than prosoma, venter with dark longitudinal band along its entire length.

Body length male: 6.0-7.0 mm
Female

Epigyne with slightly protruding anterior part, hood-shaped. Prosoma length: 1.9-2.5 mm, Prosoma width: 1.4-1.9 mm.

Body length female: 8.0-9.0 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, Caucasus, Middle East, Iran, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, India, China
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Bayram et al. 2007a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bayram et al. 2007a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Levy 1973)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Levy 1973)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Naumova et al. 2021)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Naumova et al. 2021)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Naumova et al. 2021)

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male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Zarikian et al. 2023b)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Zarikian et al. 2023b)

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male Pedipalp with tibia, patella and femur, retrolateral view
(Zarikian et al. 2023b)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Zarikian et al. 2023b)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Seropian et al. 2023b)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Seropian et al. 2023b)

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male Prosoma, dorsal view
(Bayram et al. 2007a)

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male Opisthosoma, lateral view
(Bayram et al. 2007a)

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male Habitus, dorsal view
(Zarikian et al. 2023b)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Levy 1973)

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female Epigyne
(Naumova et al. 2021)

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female Epigyne
(Fedoriak et al. 2023)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Levy 1973)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Naumova et al. 2021)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Fedoriak et al. 2023)

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Habitus, lateral view
(Naumova et al. 2021)

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.

Armenia   (Zarikian et al., 2023b) ||| Bulgaria   (Naumova et al., 2021) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Georgia   (Seropian et al., 2023b) ||| Greece   (Buchholz, 2007) ||| Russia, Southern   (Zarikian et al., 2023b) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024a) ||| Turkey (Europe)   (van Helsdingen, 2013) ||| Ukraine   (Fedoriak et al., 2023) |||
References

Bayram A, Danışman T, Bolu H, Özgen İ (2007a) Two records new for the Turkish araneofauna: Tmarus piochardi (Simon, 1866) and Monaeses israeliensis Levy, 1973 (Araneae: Thomisidae). Munis Entomology and Zoology 2: 129-136 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Buchholz S (2007) A first contribution to the arachnofauna (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Nestos Delta (NE Greece). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 59: 241-252 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Fedoriak M M, Kovblyuk M M, Kastrygina Z A (2023) The first record from Ukraine of the spider Monaeses israeliensis (Aranei, Thomisidae), from the Crimea. Zoodiversity 57: 379-382 pdf

Helsdingen P J van (2013) A quick scan of the spider fauna of the European part of Turkey. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 33: 29-38 pdf

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

Naumova M, Blagoev G, Deltshev D (2021) Fifty spider species new to the Bulgarian fauna, with a review of some dubious species (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 4984: 228-257 pdf

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

Seropian A, Bulbulashvili N, Otto S, Krammer H-J, Kachlishvili N, Datunashvili A (2023b) Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus barcode of life project. Part II. Caucasiana 2: 231-297 pdf

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

Zarikian N A, Kosyan A, Marusik Y M (2023b) New records of spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) from Armenia. 1. Ten genera and 20 species of the families Araneidae, Theridiidae and Thomisidae. Euroasian Entomological Journal 22: 141-149 pdf

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