Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Tmarus  Simon, 1875   6 species

Tmarus punctatissimus (Simon, 1870)

Description
Body length male: 4 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 1.8 mm.

Body length female: 5.3 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Spain, France, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, Turkmenistan, Korea, Japan
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Distribution List
Azerbaijan   (Nuruyeva & Zamani, 2025) ||| France   (Bosmans & Hervé, 2015) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Portugal   (Wunderlich, 2021) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Bosmans R, Hervé C (2015) Tmarus horvathi Kulczyński, 1895, synonyme plus récent de Tmarus punctatissimus (Simon, 1870) (Araneae, Thomisidae), avec de nouvelles données sur la distribution de l’espèce. Revue Arachnologique (2) 2: 38-40 pdf

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

Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362 pdf

Gaymard M, Lecigne S (2018) Contribution à la connaissance de l'aranéofaune (Araneae) du Gard et en particulier du massif des Gorges du Gardon (Occitanie, France). Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 1: 1-39 pdf

Ledoux J C, Emerit M, Pinault G (1996) (unpublished). Les araignées et opilions de Nohèdes (Pyrénées Orientales). former link: http://revue-arachnologique.fr/lespdf/Nohedes.pdf pdf

Nuruyeva T, Zamani A (2025) An annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Azerbaijan. Zootaxa 5680: 1-168 pdf

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

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. 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

Wunderlich J (2021) Few new, rare or special species of spiders from the Algarve, Portugal (Arachnida: Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 14: 3-24 pdf

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