Taxon details

Family: Thomisidae / Genus: Thomisus

Thomisus blandus Karsch, 1880

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-06-17
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031420]
  • Distribution: Africa, Yemen
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Thomisus blandus Karsch, 1880, (1888)
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); Thomisus sus Strand, 1907, (17970)
  • Holotype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; m (466) of Thomisus malevolus delesserti (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
Taxonomic references
Thomisus blandus Karsch, 1880c: 382, pl. 12, f. 10 (Dm).
Thomisus anthobius Pocock, 1898c: 225, pl. 8, f. 18 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061126].
Thomisus sus Strand, 1907a: 539 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061130].
Thomisus alboirroratus Simon, 1907d: 316 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061127].
Thomisus sus Strand, 1907n: 658 (Dm).
Thomisus malevolus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1908b: 825, pl. 50, f. 32-34 (Df).
Thomisus chubbi Lessert, 1919: 121, pl. 2, f. 29-30 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061125].
Thomisus malevolus Lessert, 1923: 169, f. 13-15 (f).
Thomisus malevolus Lessert, 1936: 258, f. 52 (m, S of Thomisus chubbi).
Thomisus malevolus delesserti Caporiacco, 1941b: 125 (Dm, new name for Thomisus malevolus Lessert, 1936: 258, f. 52) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061128].
Thomisus malevolus ocellitibiis Caporiacco, 1949a: 457 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061129].
Thomisus anthobius Comellini, 1957: 5, f. 7-8 (f, S of Thomisus malevolus).
Thomisus anthobius alboirroratus Comellini, 1957: 6 (reduced to subspecies).
Thomisus sus Comellini, 1957: 30, f. 50-51 (m).
Thomisus blandus Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1983: 13, f. 7a-d (mf, S of Thomisus anthobius, T. a. alboirroratus, T. a. delesserti, T. a. ocellitibiis and T. sus).
Thomisus blandus Dippenaar-Schoeman & Van Harten, 2007: 175, f. 10-12 (mf).
Thomisus blandus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020w: 42, 39: 1 f., 42: 6 f., 43: 3 f. (mf).
References

Caporiacco, L. di (1941b). Arachnida (esc. Acarina). Araneae. Missione Biologica Sagan-Omo, Reale Accademia d’Italia, Roma 12(Zoologia 6): 46-175. [the page numbers given at the single species partly refer to a differently paginated reprint] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1949a). Aracnidi della colonia del Kenya raccolti da Toschi e Meneghetti negli anni 1944-1946. Commentationes Pontificia Academia Scientiarum 13: 309-492. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Comellini, A. (1957). Notes sur les Thomisidae d'Afrique. 2. - Le genre Thomisus. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 55(1-2): 1-32. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (1983). The spider genera Misumena, Misumenops, Runcinia and Thomisus (Araneae: Thomisidae) of southern Africa. Entomology Memoir, Department of Agriculture Republic of South Africa 55: 1-66. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. & Harten, A. van (2007). Crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae) from mainland Yemen and the Socotra Archipelago: Part 1. The genus Thomisus Walckenaer, 1805. Fauna of Arabia 23: 169-188. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2020w). The Thomisidae of South Africa. Part 3 Sm-T. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 79 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7513278 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1880c). Arachnologische Blätter (Decas I). Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften, Dritte Folge 5: 373-409, pl. 12. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1919). Araignées du Kilimandjaro et du Mérou (suite). 3. Thomisidae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 27(5): 99-234, pl. 2. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.36325 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1923). Araignées du sud de l'Afrique. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 30: 161-212. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1936). Araignées de l'Afrique orientale portugaise, recueillies par MM. P. Lesne et B.-B. Cott. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 43: 207-306. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1908b). On some new and little known Araneidea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 77(4, 1907): 817-829, pl. 50. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1907.tb06960.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pocock, R. I. (1898c). The Arachnida from the province of Natal, South Africa, contained in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 2(9): 197-226, pl. 8. doi:10.1080/00222939808678036 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1907d). Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 1re partie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 43: 218-323. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907a). Vorläufige Diagnosen afrikanischer und südamerikanischer Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 31: 525-558. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1907n). Afrikanische Spinnen (exkl. Aviculariiden) hauptsächlich aus dem Kapland. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 25: 557-731. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-01-28 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020w n/a