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Philodromidae  Thorell, 1869 / Philodromus  Walckenaer, 1826   56 species

Philodromus lunatus  Muster & Thaler, 2004

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040963

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Description
Male

Prosoma yellow- to orange-brown, usually with V-shaped spot behind the eyes. Sternum and legs uniformly pale yellowish brown. Legs with numerous spots (can be absent in some specimens). Opisthosoma densely covered with metallic gold and grey hairs forming the dorsal pattern consisting of a cardiac mark and angular lines.

Body length male: 3.2-3.9 mm
Female

Prosoma additionally with a pronounced whitish median band, and darker lateral parts. Colouration otherwise as in males.

Body length female: 3.9-5.4 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: France: Record is doubtful, therefor removed (see Muster & Thaler 2004: 320)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Croatia, Albania, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey
Figures
species

male Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Muster & Thaler 2004)

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female Pedipalp, ventral view
(Muster & Thaler 2004)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Muster & Thaler 2004)

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female Vulva
(Muster & Thaler 2004)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Kůrka et al. 2020)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Kůrka et al. 2020)

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.

Albania   (Kůrka et al., 2020) ||| Croatia   (Muster & Thaler, 2004) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| France  Removed (Montardi et al., 2023) ||| Greece   (Muster & Thaler, 2004) ||| Greece / Crete   (Muster & Thaler, 2004) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024a; Muster & Thaler, 2004) |||
References

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

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

Kůrka A, Naumova M, Indzhov S, Deltshev C (2020) New faunistic and taxonomic data on the spider fauna of Albania (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 8-21 pdf

Montardi Y, Bounias-Delacour A, Courtial C, Danflous S, Déjean S, Guerbaa K, Jacquet C, Lecigne S, Montagne D, Villepoux O (2023) De araneis Galliae V, actualisation du référentiel des araignées de France. Révision du statut de certaines espèces de la faune de France. Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 9: 4-21 pdf

Muster C, Thaler K (2004) New species and records of Mediterranean Philodromidae (Arachnida, Araneae): I. Philodromus aureolus group. In Thaler, K. (ed.), Diversität und Biologie von Webspinnen, Skorpionen und anderen Spinnentieren. Denisia 12: 305-326 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
17-04-2023 Distribution insert Detail
29-04-2020 Image insert
29-04-2020 Distribution update Detail
29-04-2020 Distribution insert Detail
17-12-2013 Datasheet update Detail
26-11-2013 Image insert