Thanatus coloradensis Keyserling, 1880
Description
Male palp with broad apical part of tegulum. Tibial apophysis bent. Epigyne with non-sclerotised copulatory opening. Prosoma light brown. Opisthosoma light brown.
Body length male: 6.0-6.4 mmBody length female: 8.1 mm
Additional information
frequent in alpine meadows
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp
(Szita & Samu 2000)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Szita & Samu 2000)
Pedipalp
(Szita & Samu 2000)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Logunov 1996b)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Logunov 1996b)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Logunov 1996b)
Bulbus, apical view
(Logunov 1996b)
Cymbium
(Logunov 1996b)
Tibial apophysis
(Logunov 1996b)
Tibial apophysis
(Logunov 1996b)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Logunov 1996b)
Epigyne
(Szita & Samu 2000)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Logunov 1996b)
Epigyne
(Urones 2021)
Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Logunov 1996b)
Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Logunov 1996b)
Vulva
(Szita & Samu 2000)
Vulva
(Logunov 1996b)
Vulva
(Logunov 1996b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Akpınar 2017a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Akpınar 2017a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Urones 2021)
Habitus
(Szita & Samu 2000)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Logunov 1996b)
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.
References
Akpınar A (2017a) A new philodromid spider record from Turkey (Araneae: Philodromidae). Biological Diversity and Conservation 10(2): 14-16 
Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Buchholz S (2013) Spider records from East Macedonia and Thrace (NE Greece). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 45: 45-53
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
Gajdoš P, Svatoň J, Sloboda J (1999) Katalóg pavúkov Slovenska. Catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Ústav kr. ekol. SAV, Bratislava, 337 pp.
Grbac I, Katušić L, Lukić M (2019) Catalogue of spiders (Araneae) deposited in the Croatian Natural History Museum. Natura Croatica 28: 185-269
Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204
Komnenov M (2017) New data on spider fauna (Araneae) of Shar Mountain, north-western Macedonia. Proceedings of the 5th Congress of the Ecologists of Macedonia, with international participation (Ohrid, 19th-22nd October 2016). Special issues of the Macedonian Ecological Society 13: 44-61
Koponen S, Marusik Y M, Tanasevitch A V (1998) New data on the spider fauna of the Polar Urals (Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 6: 109-119
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Logunov D V (1996b) A critical review of the spider genera Apollophanes O. P.-Cambridge, 1898 and Thanatus C. L. Koch, 1837 in North Asia (Araneae, Philodromidae). Revue Arachnologique 11: 133-202
Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Szita É, Samu F (2000) Taxonomical review of Thanatus species (Philodromidae, Araneae) of Hungary. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 46: 155-179
Thaler K (1997c) Beiträge zur Spinnenfauna von Nordtirol - 4: Dionycha (Anyphaenidae, Clubionidae, Heteropodidae, Liocranidae, Philodromidae, Salticidae, Thomisidae, Zoridae). Veröffentlichungen des Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck 77: 233-285
Urones C (2021) Registros nuevos de arañas (Araneae) de la provincia de Ourense (Galicia, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 39: 55-66
Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
| 07-08-2025 | Distribution insert | Detail |
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