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Genus: Thanatus C. L. Koch, 1837 | Family: Philodromidae Thorell, 1869

Thanatus kitabensis Charitonov, 1946

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030026

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Described:

Distribution: Russia (Europe to West Siberia), Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan

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Type Repository Provide information

Lectotype: Zoological Department, Perm State University (PSU), Perm, Russia m - (Esyunin et al., 2025)
Paralectotype: Zoological Department, Perm State University (PSU), Perm, Russia 2f - (Esyunin et al., 2025)

Taxonomic References

Thanatus kitabensis Charitonov, 1946: 28, f. 48-49 (Df; see also Charitonov, 1969: 121) Original description

Thanatus kitabensis Lyakhov, 2000: 224, f. 33-36 (f, Dm)

Thanatus kitabensis Esyunin et al., 2025: 433, f. 5C-G, 6A-C, 7A-C (mf)

References

Charitonov, D. E. (1946). New forms of spiders of the USSR. Izvestija Estedvenno-Nauchnogo Instituta pri Molotovskom Gosudarstvennom Universitete imeni M. Gor'kogo 12: 19-32. -- Show included taxa

Esyunin, S. L., Efimik, V. E., Nekhaeva, A. A., Kim, L. V., Valuev, V. A., Kabdrakhimov, A. A., Tuneva, T. K. & Akhmedenov, K. M. (2025). New data on the spider (Arachnida: Aranei) fauna of Mangystau Oblast, Kazakhstan. Arthropoda Selecta 34(3): 426-446. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.34.3.15 -- 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(4, 1999): 221-230. -- 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
2025-09-24	New taxonomic reference entry	Esyunin et al., 2025
2016-01-07	Species distribution update	Zamani et al., 2015	Old value