Taxon details

Family: Thomisidae / Genus: Thomisus

Thomisus citrinellus Simon, 1875

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-06-09
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031431]
  • Distribution: Mediterranean, Africa, Seychelles, Yemen (mainland, Socotra), Iraq, Iran?
Type deposit provide information
  • 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
  • Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; 1j (616) of Thomisus spinifer maculitibiis (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
  • Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; 26m 1j (472-478) of Thomisus spinifer obscurior (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
  • Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; 4f 1j (467-469) of Thomisus spinifer simoni (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
Taxonomic references
Thomisus spinifer O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 308, pl. 14, f. 14 (Dmf; preoccupied by Blackwall, 1862, see Misumena spinifera).
Thomisus citrinellus Simon, 1875a: 253 (Df).
Thomisus spinigerus Mello-Leitão, 1929d: 4578 (unnecessary replacement name).
Thomisus spinifer Simon, 1932: 787, 868, f. 1148 (mf).
Thomisus spinifer Lessert, 1936: 255, f. 49, 51 (f).
Thomisus spinifer simoni Caporiacco, 1941b: 126 (Df).
Thomisus spinifer obscurior Caporiacco, 1941b: 127 (Dm).
Thomisus spinifer Millot, 1942: 45, f. 20A-C, 21A (mf).
Thomisus spinifer decoratus Millot, 1942: 47, f. 21B (Df).
Thomisus spinifer maculitibiis Caporiacco, 1947c: 260 (Df).
Thomisus spinifer obscurior Caporiacco, 1949a: 456.
Thomisus spinifer simoni Caporiacco, 1949a: 456.
Thomisus spinifer Comellini, 1957: 27, f. 46-47 (f).
Thomisus citrinellus Levy, 1973: 127, f. 43-46 (mf).
Thomisus citrinellus Benoit, 1978j: 901, f. 3 (m).
Thomisus citrinellus Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1983: 22, f. 13a-e (mf, S).
Thomisus citrinellus Levy, 1985b: 39, f. 47-50 (mf).
Thomisus citrinellus Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1989c: 23, f. 2a-b (mf).
Thomisus citrinellus Dippenaar-Schoeman & Van Harten, 2007: 177, f. 13-15 (mf).
Thomisus citrinellus Sallam, 2012b: 10, f. 1a-f (mf).
Thomisus citrinellus Demir, Seyyar & Najim, 2017: 25, f. 2a-c (f).
Thomisus citrinellus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020w: 44, 39: 1 f., 44: 5 f., 45: 5 f. (mf).
Thomisus citrinellus Abdel-Ghani, Hassan & Sallam, 2023: 37, f. 27a-b (mf).
Thomisus citrinellus Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2023a: 9, f. 7, 10-11 (f).
Thomisus citrinellus Dippenaar-Schoeman & Kelly, 2024: 11, f. 3, 6, 7A-C, 13 (mf).
References

Abdel-Ghani, D. M., Hassan, M. F. & Sallam, G. M. E. (2023). Spiders as a bio-agent factor in a mango greenhouse at Giza Governorate, Egypt. Serket 20(1): 26-38. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Benoit, P. L. G. (1978j). Contributions à l'étude de la faune terrestre des îles granitiques de l'archipel des Séchelles (Mission P.L.G. Benoit - J.J. Van Mol 1972). Thomisidae (Araneae). Revue Zoologique Africaine 92: 899-901. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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 (1947c). Arachnida Africae Orientalis, a dominibus Kittenberger, Kovács et Bornemisza lecta, in Museo Nationali Hungarico servata. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 40: 97-257. 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

Demir, H., Seyyar, O. & Najim, S. A. (2017). Thomisus citrinellus Simon 1875 is a new record (Araneae: Thomisidae) for spider fauna of Iraq. Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam Üniversitesi Doğa Bilimleri Dergisi 20(1): 25-27. doi:10.18016/ksujns.96081 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. (1989c). An annotated check list of crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae) of Saudi Arabia. Fauna Saudi Arabia 10: 20-30. 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

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (2023a). First record of the crab spider Thomisus ghesquierei Lessert, 1943 from South Africa (Araneae: Thomisidae). SANSA Newsletter 48: 9-11. doi:10.5281/zenodo.10276180 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. & Kelly, J. (2024). Observation on three flower crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae: Thomisus) from South Africa. SANSA Newsletter 50: 9-14. doi:10.5281/zenodo.11529960 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

Levy, G. (1973). Crab-spiders of six genera from Israel (Araneae: Thomisidae). Israel Journal of Zoology 22: 107-141. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (1985b). Araneae: Thomisidae. In: Fauna Palaestina, Arachnida II. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem, 115 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1929d). Aphantochilidas e Thomisidas do Brasil. Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 31: 9-359. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Millot, J. (1942). Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Français: Thomisidae. Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France (2) 65(1, 1941): 1-82. download pdf -- 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 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sallam, G. M. E. (2012b). Re-description of the crab spider, Thomisus citrinellus Simon, 1875 (Araneae, Thomisidae) from Egypt. Indian Journal of Arachnology 1(2): 9-14. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- 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. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

* Disclaimer
As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Gloor, D., Hänggi, A., Kropf, C.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 05.2018. doi: 10.24436/1

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-06-09 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman & Kelly, 2024 n/a
2023-12-28 New taxonomic reference entry Abdel-Ghani, Hassan & Sallam, 2023 n/a
2023-12-06 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2023a n/a
2023-01-28 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020w n/a
2016-12-06 New taxonomic reference entry Demir, Seyyar & Najim, 2017 n/a
2016-12-06 Species distribution update Demir, Seyyar & Najim, 2017 n/a (Old value)