Thomisidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Ozyptila  Simon, 1864   52 species

Ozyptila westringi  (Thorell, 1873)

Description

Embolus distally bent.

Body length male: 2.6-3.2 mm
Body length female: 3.8-4.8 mm
Additional information

in transition zone of salty meadows and dunes, halophilic

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Menorca (Barrientos & Febrer 2018): only female, should be confirmed with male; Luxembourg (Kreuels et al. 2019) has to be confirmed, preliminary not accepted here
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Sweden, Netherlands, Germany
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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.

Belgium   (Bosmans & Van Keer, 2017) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Netherlands   (van Helsdingen, 2024) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) |||
References

Barrientos J A, Febrer J B (2018) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). 2: “adenda et corrigenda”. Descripción de tres especies nuevas. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 33: 39-51 pdf

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69 pdf

Helsdingen P J van (2024) Catalogus van de Nederlandse spinnen. Versie 2024.3. 252 pp. 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

Kreuels M, Staudt A, Christian S (2019) Die Spinnenfauna von Luxemburg – eine Zusammenstellung der Nachweise aus den Jahren 1906-2018 (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes luxembourgeois 121: 203-230 pdf

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

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Roberts M J (1998) Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 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

Wunderlich J, Schultz W (1995) Ozyptila westringi (Thorell 1873), eine in Deutschland seltene Krabbenspinnenart (Arachnida: Araneae: Thomisidae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 4: 329-333 pdf

Updates
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