Taxon details
Thomisus citrinellus Simon, 1875
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2024-11-25
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031431]
- Distribution: Mediterranean, Africa, Seychelles, Yemen (mainland, Socotra), Iraq, Iran?
- 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
- 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)
Thomisus citrinellus Simon, 1875a: 253 (Df).
Thomisus spinifer Simon, 1886g: 360 (S of Thomisus citrinellus; but T. spinifer is preoccupied).
Thomisus spinigerus Mello-Leitão, 1929d: 4578 (replacement name) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063136].
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) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063140].
Thomisus spinifer obscurior Caporiacco, 1941b: 127 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063139].
Thomisus spinifer Millot, 1942: 45, f. 20A-C, 21A (mf).
Thomisus spinifer decorata Millot, 1942: 47, f. 21B (f; invalid provisional name) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063137].
Thomisus spinifer maculitibiis Caporiacco, 1947c: 216 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063138].
Thomisus spinifer obscurior Caporiacco, 1949a: 456.
Thomisus spinifer simoni Caporiacco, 1949a: 456.
Thomisus citrinellus Roewer, 1955c: 857 (S of Thomisus spinifer sensu O. Pickard-Cambridge).
Thomisus spinifer Comellini, 1957: 27, f. 46-47 (f).
Thomisus spinifer decorata Comellini, 1957: 28 (S of Thomisus sepiosus, rejected by Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1983: 25, see T. daradioides).
Thomisus citrinellus Bonnet, 1959: 4578 (S of Thomisus spiniger).
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 of Thomisus citrinellus decoratus, T. citrinellus maculitibiis, T. citrinellus obscurior and T. citrinellus simoni).
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).
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. 
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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. -- Show included taxa
Bonnet, P. (1959). Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systématique des araignées (Étude par ordre alphabétique) (5me partie: T-Z). Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 4231-5058. -- 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] -- 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. -- 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. -- 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. -- 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 -- 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. -- 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. -- 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. -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. -- Show included taxa
Levy, G. (1973). Crab-spiders of six genera from Israel (Araneae: Thomisidae). Israel Journal of Zoology 22: 107-141. -- Show included taxa
Levy, G. (1985b). Araneae: Thomisidae. In: Fauna Palaestina, Arachnida II. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem, 115 pp. -- 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. -- 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. -- 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
Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. -- 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. -- 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. (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
Simon, E. (1886g). Etudes arachnologiques. 18e Mémoire. XXVI. Matériaux pour servir à la faune des Arachnides du Sénégal. (Suivi d'une appendice intitulé: Descriptions de plusieurs espèces africaines nouvelles). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 5: 345-396. -- Show included taxa
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| 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) |