Oxyopidae  Thorell, 1869 / Peucetia  Thorell, 1869   3 species

Peucetia arabica  Simon, 1882

Description
Male

Prosoma length: 3.2-4.2 mm, prosoma width: 2.6-3.3 mm.

Body length male: 6.7-8.8 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 4.8-6.0 mm, prosoma width: 3.4-4.3 mm.

Body length female: 9.5-13.0 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2025): Greece, North, East Africa, Middle East
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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.

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| Greece   (Bosmans et al., 2009) ||| Libya   (Elkrew et al., 2024) ||| Morocco   (Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

Bosmans R, Baert L, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H, Maelfait J-P, Van Keer J (2009) Spiders of Lesbos (Greece). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 24(suppl.): 1-70 pdf

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

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 pdf

Elkrew H, Hamza A, Ghana S, Shaibi T, Swehli A I, Elmareme H, Ahmad A (2024) Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Libya. Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences 22: 19346-19369 pdf

Levy G (1999a) The lynx and nursery-web spider families in Israel (Araneae, Oxyopidae and Pisauridae). Zoosystema 21: 29-64 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
10-01-2025 Distribution update Detail
25-02-2022 Distribution update Detail
25-02-2022 Distribution insert Detail
14-05-2013 Image insert