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Genus: Philodromus Walckenaer, 1826 | Family: Philodromidae Thorell, 1869

Philodromus lunatus Muster & Thaler, 2004

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040963

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Described:

Distribution: Croatia, Albania, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Biologiezentrum Linz/Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum (OLML), Linz, Austria m (43-2) - (Muster & Thaler, 2004)
Paratype: Biologiezentrum Linz/Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum (OLML), Linz, Austria 1f (43-2) - (Muster & Thaler, 2004)
Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 1m 1f - (Muster & Thaler, 2004)
Paratype: Natural History Museum, Bern (NMBE) [= Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern], Switzerland 11m 9f (AR 43350, 58390-58393 [in part ex coll. Thaler]) - (Muster & Thaler, 2004)
Paratype: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NHMW), Wien/Vienna, Austria 1m 1f - (Muster & Thaler, 2004)
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany 1m 1f - (Muster & Thaler, 2004)

Taxonomic References

Philodromus lunatus Muster & Thaler, 2004: 319, f. 4, 6, 19a-b (Dmf) Original description

Philodromus lunatus Kůrka et al., 2020: 18, f. 22a-b (f)

References

Kůrka, A., Naumova, M., Indzhov, S. & Deltshev, C. (2020). New faunistic and taxonomic data on the spider fauna of Albania (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 8-21. doi: 10.30963/aramit5903 -- Show included taxa

Muster, C. & Thaler, K. (2004). New species and records of Mediterranean Philodromidae (Arachnida, Araneae): I. Philodromus aureolus group. In: Thaler, K. (ed.) Diversität und Biologie von Webspinnen, Skorpionen und anderen Spinnentieren. Denisia 12: 305-326. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2020-03-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Kůrka et al., 2020
2020-03-09	Species distribution update	Kůrka et al., 2020	Old value