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

Thanatus sepiacolor Levy, 1999

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030063

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Described:

Distribution: Israel, United Arab Emirates, Iran

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: National Natural History Collections, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (HUJ), Israel m (15183) - (Levy, 1999b)
Paratype: National Natural History Collections, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (HUJ), Israel 1f (15184) - (Levy, 1999b)

Taxonomic References

Thanatus sepiacolor Levy, 1999b: 188, f. 24-27 (Dmf) Original description

Thanatus sepiacolor Zamani et al., 2025b: 33, f. 20B, 21J-L, 22C-D (mf)

References

Levy, G. (1999b). New thomisid and philodromid spiders (Araneae) from southern Israel. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11(5): 185-190. -- Show included taxa

Zamani, A., Enayatnia, M., Mirshekar, A., Mayvan, M. M., Kováč, L. & Marusik, Y. M. (2025b). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part XII. Zootaxa 5601(1): 1-45. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5601.1.1 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-03-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Zamani et al., 2025b
2025-03-06	Species distribution update	Zamani et al., 2025b	Old value