Taxon details
Thanatus vulgaris Simon, 1870
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2024-08-16
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030073]
- Distribution: Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Middle East, Iran, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan. Introduced to North America, South Africa, Australia
- External Resources *:
- It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France
- Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany; f (4404-128a) of Drassus notatus (Levy, 1999b)
- Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Thanatus vulgaris syriensis Strand, 1913, 1 f (4412-128)
- Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Philodromus vegetus L. Koch, 1881, (7914)
- Syntype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Thanatus odorus Strand, 1915, 1 m (subadult), 1 f (4405-128)
- Syntype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); Thanatus rehobothicola Strand, 1915, 1 f (4407-128); 1 f (4408-128)
- Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Thanatus purcelli Simon, 1910, (20896)
Thanatus vulgaris Simon, 1870b: 328 (Dmf).
Thanatus major Simon, 1870b: 332 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055414].
Philodromus thorellii O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 309 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055410].
Thanatus major Simon, 1875a: 323, pl. 8, f. 16 (m, Df).
Thanatus vulgaris Simon, 1875a: 325, pl. 8, f. 17 (m; f misidentified per Roewer, 1955c: 793, but reference could not be found yet).
Philodromus vegetus L. Koch, 1882: 645, pl. 20, f. 22 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055411].
Thanatus vulgaris Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1891: 114, pl. 4, f. 26 (mf).
Thanatus peninsulanus Banks, 1898b: 265, pl. 16, f. 11 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055404].
Thanatus vulgaris maderianus Kulczyński, 1903a: 50, pl. 1, f. 9, 14 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055413].
Thanatus purcelli Simon, 1910b: 196 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055405].
Thanatus vulgaris syriensis Strand, 1913f: 158 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055415].
Thanatus odorus Strand, 1915c: 153 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055401].
Thanatus rehobothicola Strand, 1915c: 154 (Df; listed by Roewer, 1955c: 779, 793 under both, Thanatus and Philodromus) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055406].
Thanatus notatus Strand, 1916b: 34.
Thanatus retentus Chamberlin, 1919b: 9, pl. 4, f. 5 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061840].
Philodromus setosus Petrunkevitch, 1929a: 523, pl. 1, f. 21 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055409].
Thanatus vulgaris Simon, 1932: 863, 886, f. 1319-1320 (mf).
Thanatus vulgaris major Simon, 1932: 863.
Vacchellia thorelli Caporiacco, 1935b: 194.
Thanatus peninsulanus Kaston, 1948: 439, f. 1613-1615 (mf, S of Thanatus retentus).
Thanatus vulgaris Dondale, Turnbull & Redner, 1964: 653, f. 3-4, 41-42 (mf, S of Thanatus peninsulanus).
Thanatus peninsulanus Schick, 1965: 93, f. 124-126 (mf).
Thanatus vulgaris Miller, 1971: 130, pl. XVII, f. 18-19 (mf).
Thanatus vulgaris Dondale & Redner, 1976a: 155 (S of Philodromus setosus).
Thanatus vulgaris Levy, 1977: 214-216, f. 40-47 (mf, S of Thanatus odorus, T. purcelli, T. rehobothicola, T. thorelli, T. vulgaris major, T. vulgaris syriensis).
Thanatus vulgaris Dondale & Redner, 1978b: 120, f. 404-407 (mf).
Thanatus vulgaris Paik, 1979a: 123, f. 27-35 (mf).
Thanatus vulgaris Zhou & Song, 1985b: 272, f. 3a-e (mf).
Thanatus vulgaris Urita & Song, 1987: 36, f. 19A-B (f).
Thanatus vulgaris Wunderlich, 1987a: 261 (S of Thanatus vulgaris maderianus).
Tibellus pateli Hu & Li, 1987b: 320, f. 42.1-2 (f; misidentified per Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 478).
Thanatus vulgaris Hu & Wu, 1989: 326, f. 260.1-6 (mf).
Thanatus vulgaris Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 466, f. 1229 (mf).
Thanatus vulgaris Wunderlich, 1992a: 508, f. 820-822 (mf).
Thanatus vuilgaris Zhao, 1993: 353, f. 173a-b (mf, lapsus).
Thanatus vulgaris Hansen, 1995: 17, f. 13-14 (mf).
Thenatus vuilgaris Zhao, 1995: 1070, f. 514a-b (mf, lapsus).
Thanatus vulgaris Logunov, 1996b: 196, f. 194-197, 204-206 (mf).
Thanatus vulgaris Song & Zhu, 1997: 207, f. 149A-D (mf).
Thanatus vulgaris Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 478, f. 273B, M (mf).
Thanatus vulgaris Levy, 1999b: 189 (S of Thanatus notatus [suppressed for lack of usage]).
Thanatus vulgaris Lyakhov, 2000: 229, f. 48-55 (mf).
Thanatus vulgaris Szita & Samu, 2000: 173, f. 40-42, 45-46, 57 (mf).
Thanatus pateli Hu, 2001: 331, f. 198.1-2 (f; same figs. like Hu & Li, 1987b: 320, f. 42.1-2, see note above).
Thanatus vulgaris Hu, 2001: 331, f. 199.1-4 (mf).
Thanatus vulgaris Kim & Jung, 2001: 207, f. 58-61 (mf).
Thanatus vulgaris Jäger, 2002a: 50, f. 1-4 (f).
Thanatus vulgaris van Helsdingen, 2010b: 10, f. 1-2 (f).
Thanatus vulgaris Logunov, 2011: 449, f. 21-22 (mf).
Thanatus vulgaris Logunov, Ballarin & Marusik, 2011: 238, f. 13-15 (f).
Thanatus vulgaris Wunderlich, 2012a: 53, f. 39-40 (m).
Thanatus vulgaris Bosmans & Van Keer, 2012a: 11, f. 22-23 (f, S of Philodromus vegetus).
Thanatus vulgaris Kastrygina & Kovblyuk, 2013: 251, f. 7, 11, 22, 30, 38, 47, 56, 61 (mf).
Thanatus vulgaris Kim & Lee, 2017: 86, f. 49A-D (mf).
Thanatus vulgaris Zarikian, 2021: 499, pl. 1I, 2I (f).
Thanatus vulgaris Kumada, 2022: 157, f. 1-6 (f).
Thanatus vulgaris Zamani & Marusik, 2022c: 299, f. 8A-C (f).
Thanatus vulgaris Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022g: 32, p. 32: 5 f., p. 33: 1 f. (mf).
Banks, N. (1898b). Arachnida from Baja California and other parts of Mexico. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (3) 1(7): 205-309. 
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Bosmans, R. & Van Keer, J. (2012a). On the spider species described by L. Koch in 1882 from the Balearic Islands (Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 43: 5-16. doi:10.5431/aramit4306 -- Show included taxa
Caporiacco, L. di (1935b). Aracnidi dell'Himalaia e del Karakoram, raccolti dalla Missione italiana al Karakoram (1929-VII). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 13: 161-263, pl. 1-7. -- Show included taxa
Chamberlin, R. V. (1919b). New Californian spiders. Journal of Entomology and Zoology 12: 1-17. -- Show included taxa
Chyzer, C. & Kulczyński, W. (1891). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus I. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae, Budapest, 170 pp., 4 Pls. -- Show included taxa
Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2022g). The Philodromidae of South Africa. Version 2. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 53 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6634009 -- Show included taxa
Dondale, C. D., Turnbull, A. L. & Redner, J. H. (1964). Revision of the Nearctic species of Thanatus C. L. Koch (Araneae: Thomisidae). The Canadian Entomologist 96(4): 636-656. doi:10.4039/Ent96636-4 -- Show included taxa
Dondale, C. D. & Redner, J. H. (1976a). A review of the spider genus Philodromus in the Americas (Araneida: Philodromidae). The Canadian Entomologist 108(2): 127-157. doi:10.4039/Ent108127-2 -- Show included taxa
Dondale, C. D. & Redner, J. H. (1978b). The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 5. The crab spiders of Canada and Alaska, Araneae: Philodromidae and Thomisidae. Research Branch Agriculture Canada Publication 1663: 1-255. -- Show included taxa
Hansen, H. (1995). Über die Arachniden-Fauna von urbanen Lebensräumen in Venedig - III. Die epigäischen Spinnen eines Stadtparkes (Arachnida: Araneae). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 44(for 1993): 7-36. -- Show included taxa
Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. -- Show included taxa
Helsdingen, P. J. van (2010b). Thanatus vulgaris Simon, 1870 in Nederland (Araneae, Philodromidae). Nieuwsbrief SPINED 29: 10-12. -- Show included taxa
Hu, J. L. & Li, A. H. (1987b). The spiders collected from the fields and the forests of Xizang Autonomous Region, China. (II). Agricultural Insects, Spiders, Plant Diseases and Weeds of Xizang 2: 247-353. -- Show included taxa
Hu, J. L. & Wu, W. G. (1989). Spiders from agricultural regions of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Shandong University Publishing House, Jinan, 435 pp. -- Show included taxa
Hu, J. L. (2001). Spiders in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China. Henan Science and Technology Publishing House, 658 pp. -- Show included taxa
Jäger, P. (2002a). Thanatus vulgaris Simon, 1870 - ein Weltenbummler (Araneae: Philodromidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 23: 49-57. doi:10.5431/aramit2305 -- Show included taxa
Kaston, B. J. (1948). Spiders of Connecticut. Bulletin of the Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey 70: 1-874. -- Show included taxa
Kastrygina, Z. A. & Kovblyuk, M. M. (2013). A review of the spider genus Thanatus C.L. Koch, 1837 in Crimea (Aranei: Philodromidae). Arthropoda Selecta 22(3): 239-254. doi:10.15298/arthsel.22.3.07 -- Show included taxa
Kim, J. P. & Jung, J. Y. (2001). A revisional study of the spider family Philodromidae O.P.-Cambridge, 1871 (Arachnida: Araneae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 17: 185-222. -- Show included taxa
Kim, S. T. & Lee, S. Y. (2017). Arthropoda: Arachnida: Aaraneae [sic]: Oecobiidae, Oxyopidae, Cybaeidae, Dictynidae, Sparassidae, Philodromidae. Spiders II. Invertebrate Fauna of Korea 21(42): 1-122. -- Show included taxa
Koch, L. (1882). Zoologische Ergebnisse von Excursionen auf den Balearen. II. Arachniden und Myriapoden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 31: 625-678, pl. 20-21. -- Show included taxa
Kulczyński, W. (1903a). Aranearum et Opilionum species in insula Creta a comite Dre Carolo Attems collectae. Bulletin International de l'Academie des Sciences de Cracovie 1903(1): 32-58, pl. 1. -- Show included taxa
Kumada, K. I. (2022). New records of Thanatus vulgaris Simon 1870 (Araneae: Philodromidae) from Japan. Acta Arachnologica 71(2): 157-159. doi:10.2476/asjaa.71.157 -- Show included taxa
Levy, G. (1977). The philodromid spiders of Israel (Araneae: Philodromidae). Israel Journal of Zoology 26: 193-229. -- Show included taxa
Levy, G. (1999b). New thomisid and philodromid spiders (Araneae) from southern Israel. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11(5): 185-190. -- Show included taxa
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(13): 133-202. -- Show included taxa
Logunov, D. V. (2011). Notes on the Philodromidae (Araneae) of the United Arab Emirates. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 315: 441-451. -- Show included taxa
Logunov, D. V., Ballarin, F. & Marusik, Y. M. (2011). New faunistic records of the jumping and crab spiders of Karakoram, Pakistan (Aranei: Philodromidae, Salticidae and Thomisidae). Arthropoda Selecta 20(3): 233-240. doi:10.15298/arthsel.20.3.06 -- Show included taxa
Lyakhov, O. V. (2000). Contribution to the Middle Asian fauna of the spider genus Thanatus C. L. Koch, 1837 (Aranei: Philodromidae). Arthropoda Selecta 8: 221-230. -- Show included taxa
Miller, F. (1971). Pavouci-Araneida. Klíč zvířeny ČSSR 4: 51-306. -- Show included taxa
Paik, K. Y. (1979a). Four species of the genus Thanatus (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Korea. Journal of the Graduate School of Education, Kyungpook National University 11: 117-131. -- Show included taxa
Petrunkevitch, A. (1929a). Descriptions of new or inadequately known American spiders (second paper). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 22(3): 511-524, pl. 1. doi:10.1093/aesa/22.3.511 -- Show included taxa
Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 40(1): 212-354, pl. 13-16. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1872.tb00489.x -- Show included taxa
Reuss, A. (1834). Zoologische Miscellen. Museum Senckenbergianum, Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der beschreibenden Naturgeschichte 1: 195-276. -- Show included taxa
Schick, R. X. (1965). The crab spiders of California (Araneae, Thomisidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 129(1): 1-180. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1870b). Aranéides nouveaux ou peu connus du midi de l'Europe. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège (2) 3: 271-358. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1875a). Les Arachnides de France. Tome seconde. Contenant les familles des Urocteidae, Agelenidae, Thomisidae et Sparassidae. Roret, Paris, 360 pp., pl. 4-8. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1910b). Arachnoidea: Araneae (II.). In: Schultze, L. (ed.) Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika. Vierter Band. Systematik und Tiergeographie. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 16: 175-218. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1932). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 4e partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 773-978. -- Show included taxa
Song, D. X. & Zhu, M. S. (1997). Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Thomisidae, Philodromidae. Science Press, Beijing, 259 pp. -- Show included taxa
Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa
Strand, E. (1913f). Erste Mitteilung über Spinnen aus Palästina, gesammelt von Herrn Dr J. Aharoni. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 79(A10): 147-162. -- Show included taxa
Strand, E. (1915c). Dritte Mitteilung über Spinnen aus Palästina, gesammelt von Herrn Dr J. Aharoni. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 81(A2): 134-171. -- Show included taxa
Strand, E. (1916b). Systematische-faunistische Studien über paläarktische, afrikanische und amerikanische Spinnen des Senckenbergischen Museums. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 81(A9): 1-153. -- Show included taxa
Szita, É. & Samu, F. (2000). Taxonomical review of Thanatus species (Philodromidae, Araneae) of Hungary. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 46: 155-179. -- Show included taxa
Urita & Song, D. X. (1987). Notes on Inner Mongolian spiders of the family Philodromidae. Journal of Inner Mongolia Teacher's University 1987(1): 28-37. [first author erroneously listed as Wu, L. T.] -- Show included taxa
Wunderlich, J. (1987a). Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen. Triops, Langen, 435 pp. -- Show included taxa
Wunderlich, J. (1992a). Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Biogeographie und Evolution. Beiträge zur Araneologie 1: 1-619. -- Show included taxa
Wunderlich, J. (2012a). Fifteen papers on extant and fossil spiders (Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 7: 1-246. -- Show included taxa
Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2022c). On a small collection of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from Iraq, with new species and records. Zoodiversity 56(4): 291-306. doi:10.15407/zoo2022.04.291 -- Show included taxa
Zarikian, N. A. (2021). A survey of running crab spiders Philodromidae (Araneae) of Armenia. Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum 16(4): 495-508. doi:10.26842/binhm.7.2021.16.4.0495 -- Show included taxa
Zhao, J. Z. (1993). Spiders in the cotton fields in China. Wuhan Publishing House, Wuhan, China, 552 pp. -- Show included taxa
Zhao, J. Z. (1995). Araneida. In: Natural enemies of cotton pests in China. Wuhan Publishing House, Wuhan, China, pp. 762-1155. -- Show included taxa
Zhou, N. L. & Song, D. X. (1985b). Six new records of spiders from China. La Animala Mondo 2: 271-276. -- Show included taxa
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| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-14 | New taxonomic reference entry | Zhao, 1995 | n/a |
| 2023-01-05 | New taxonomic reference entry | Kumada, 2022 | n/a |
| 2023-01-05 | Species distribution update | Kumada, 2022 | n/a (Old value) |
| 2022-09-07 | New taxonomic reference entry | Zamani & Marusik, 2022c | n/a |
| 2022-06-11 | New taxonomic reference entry | Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022g | n/a |
| 2022-06-11 | Species distribution update | Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022g | n/a (Old value) |
| 2021-12-23 | New taxonomic reference entry | Zarikian, 2021 | n/a |
| 2020-08-03 | New taxonomic reference entry | Kim & Lee, 2017 | n/a |
| 2019-07-09 | Species distribution update | Torabi, Moradmand & Muster, 2019 | n/a (Old value) |
| 2019-05-21 | Species distribution update | Haddad & Marusik, 2019 | n/a (Old value) |