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Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Ozyptila  Simon, 1864   52 species

Ozyptila arctica  Kulczyński, 1908

Description
Male

Colouration as in males.

Body length male: 2.5-3 mm
Female

Prosoma yellowish brown, mottled with yellow, white and brown, with light yellowish median band. Chelicerae yellowish brown with yellowish white spots. Sternum yellowish brown, margin darker. Legs yellow-brown with brown spots. Opisthosoma: dorsum yellowish brown, mottled with dark brown, venter lighter (Almquist 2006).

Body length female: 3-4 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Norway: Aakra & Hauge (2003) sub O. rauda, see Marusik (2008)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): North America, Northern Europe, Russia (Europe to Far East)
Phenology
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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.

Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Norway   (Marusik, 2008; Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Northern   (Marusik, 2008) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001; Almquist, 2007) |||
References

Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129 pdf

Almquist S (2007) Swedish Araneae, part 2 – families Dictynidae to Salticidae. Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 63(2006): 285-601 pdf

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm pdf

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001] pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Marusik Y M (2008) Synopsis of the Ozyptila rauda-group (Araneae, Thomisidae), with revalidation of Ozyptila balkarica Ovtsharenko, 1979. Zootaxa 1909: 52-64 pdf

Roberts M J (1995) Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp. 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

Updates
27-07-2020 Distribution update Detail
02-10-2018 Image insert
13-10-2015 Image insert