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Genus: Nyctimus Thorell, 1877 | Family: Thomisidae Sundevall, 1833

Nyctimus bistriatus Thorell, 1877

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030777

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Described:

Distribution: Borneo (Malaysia, Brunei), Indonesia (Sumatra, Sulawesi)

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Holotype: Museo Civico Storia Naturale G. Doria, Genova (MCSNG), Italy m - (Benjamin et al., 2025)

Taxonomic References

Nyctimus bistriatus Thorell, 1877b: 499 (Dm) Original description

Zametopias speculator Thorell, 1892a: 123 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032124]

Nyctimus binotatus Lehtinen, 2016: 166 (lapsus, S of Zametopias speculator)

Nyctimus bistriatus Benjamin et al., 2025: 98, f. 1A-B, 2A-D, 3A-D (mf)

References

Benjamin, S. P., Dhiya'ulhaq, N. U., Deeleman-Reinhold, C., Buchori, D., Hidayat, P., Scheu, S. & Drescher, J. (2025). Taxonomic notes on the crab-spider genera Nyctimus Thorell, 1877 and Zametopina Simon, 1909 (Araneae, Thomisidae) with descriptions of six new species from Southeast Asia. ZooKeys 1255: 95-125. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1255.158380 -- Show included taxa

Lehtinen, P. T. (2016). Significance of oriental taxa in phylogeny of crab spiders (Thomisidae s.lat. and Stiphropodidae). Indian Journal of Arachnology 5: 143-171. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1877b). Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. I. Ragni di Selebes raccolti nel 1874 dal Dott. O. Beccari. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 10: 341-637. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1892a). Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. IV, 2. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 31: 1-490. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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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
2025-10-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Benjamin et al., 2025
2025-10-10	Species distribution update	Benjamin et al., 2025	Old value
2017-07-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Lehtinen, 2016
2017-07-11	Species synonymy	Lehtinen, 2016		Nyctimus speculator synonymized with Nyctimus bistriatus