Xysticus spasskyi Utochkin, 1968
Description
Male
Carapace length 2.3 mm, width 2.2 mm; with yellow-brown median band with white V-shaped figure. Sides uniformly colored, without markings. Posterior slope with two dark brownish spots. Median-eye rectangle wider than long; its frontal half yellow, posterior part obscured. Clypeus with 7 bristles. Sternum dotted with brown spots and brown setae. Coxae, femora and patellae of the legs with light-yellow longitudinal stripes. Abdomen oval, somewhat flattened; dorsum dark brown with white markings and white fringe; anterior half with two longitudinal white stripes, posterior half with transversal interrupted white stripe and two white spots behind it. Venter yellow-brown, somewhat spotted. Spinnerets with narrow yellow fringe.
Female
Carapace length 2.9 mm, width 2.8 mm; its surface brown with a bright median band with a light yellow pentagonal pattern in its anterior part. Carapace sides brown with yellow pattern. Eye field light yellow, eye tubercles sometimes darkened. Clypeus with 7 bristles. Sternum yellow with brown spots. Legs yellow-brown, femora and patellae I and II somewhat spotted; dorsal side of all legs with light longitudinal stripes (except metatarsus and tarsus). Abdomen oval and somewhat flattened. Dorsum with yellow fringe, dorsum pattern eroded, its anterior part lighter than posterior part. Venter brownish-yellow, spotted. Epigyne with thin septum in anterior part of the openings.
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Utochkin 1968)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Utochkin 1968)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Marusik & Azarkina 2016)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Marusik & Azarkina 2016)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Marusik & Azarkina 2016)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Marusik & Azarkina 2016)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Utochkin 1968)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Utochkin 1968)
Epigyne
(Marusik & Azarkina 2016)
Epigyne
(Marusik & Azarkina 2016)
Epigyne
(Marusik & Azarkina 2016)
Epigyne
(Marusik & Azarkina 2016)
Epigyne
(Marusik & Azarkina 2016)
Vulva
(Marusik & Azarkina 2016)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Utochkin 1968)
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
Kovblyuk M M (2014) Spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of Crimea: faunogenesis and hypothesis of Pontida. Ukrainska Entomofaunistyka 5(2): 29-53 
Marusik Y M, Azarkina G N (2016) Redescription of the poorly known crab spider Xysticus spasskyi (Araneae: Thomisidae). Zootaxa 4161: 561-566
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Utochkin A S (1968) Pauki roda Xysticus faunii SSSR (Opredelitel'). Ed. Univ. Perm, 73 pp.
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
Zarikian N A, Kosyan A, Marusik Y M (2023b) New records of spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) from Armenia. 1. Ten genera and 20 species of the families Araneidae, Theridiidae and Thomisidae. Euroasian Entomological Journal 22: 141-149