Ozyptila praticola (C. L. Koch, 1837)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030893

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Described:

Distribution: Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia. Introduced to Canada, USA, Argentina


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Taxonomic References
Xysticus praticola C. L. Koch, 1837a: 77, f. 300-301 (Dmf) Original description
Xysticus praticola C. L. Koch, 1837b: 26 (D)
Thomisus incertus Blackwall, 1846b: 297 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066039]
Thomisus incertus Blackwall, 1861a: 86, pl. 4, f. 51 (m, Df)
Xysticus praticola Ohlert, 1867: 117 (f; m see Ozyptila trux)
Xysticus incertus Thorell, 1872a: 255
Ozyptila praticola Simon, 1875a: 222, pl. 7, f. 24 (mf, S of Xysticus incertus)
Ozyptila caligans Simon, 1875a: 240 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066040]
Ozyptila praticola Becker, 1882b: 197, pl. 19, f. 3 (mf)
Ozyptila praticola Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1891: 100, pl. 3, f. 36, pl. 4, f. 1 (mf)
Ozyptila praticola Bösenberg, 1902: 357, pl. 33, f. 526 (mf)
Ozyptila praticola Fedotov, 1912a: 92, f. 36-37 (mf)
Ozyptila brevipes Dahl, 1912b: 591 (misidentified per Simon, 1932: 873)
Ozyptila praticola Spassky, 1925: 44, f. 52 (f)
Ozyptila praticola Simon, 1932: 803, 811, 873, f. 1188-1189, 1210 (mf, S of Ozyptila caligans)
Ozyptila praticola Tullgren, 1944: 78, pl. 9, f. 144-146 (mf)
Oxyptila praticola Palmgren, 1950: 24, f. 9-10 (mf)
Ozyptila praticola Locket & Millidge, 1951: 190, f. 96A, 97C (mf)
Ozyptila praticola Gertsch, 1953: 470, f. 92-93 (mf)
Ozyptila praticola Utochkin, 1960c: 52, f. 10-12 (mf)
Ozyptila praticola Azheganova, 1968: 118, f. 257, 281 (mf)
Ozyptila praticola Vilbaste, 1969: 81, f. 69A-B, 70A-B (mf)
Ozyptila praticola Miller, 1971: 115, pl. XIV, f. 13-14 (mf)
Ozyptila praticola Brændegaard, 1972: 105, f. 54-55 (mf)
Ozyptila praticola Dondale & Redner, 1975a: 144, f. 9, 12, 53-54 (mf)
Ozyptila praticola Dondale & Redner, 1978b: 155, f. 478-481 (mf)
Ozyptila praticola Roberts, 1985: 106, f. 42b (mf)
Ozyptila praticola Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 472, f. 1245 (mf)
Ozyptila praticola Roberts, 1995: 166, f. (mf)
Ozyptila praticola Mcheidze, 1997: 139, f. 218-220 (mf)
Ozyptila praticola Bellmann, 1997: 198, f. (f)
Ozyptila praticola Roberts, 1998: 178, f. (mf)
Ozyptila praticola Lehtinen, 2002: 319, f. 5 (m)
Ozyptila praticola Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 230, f. 2574-2577 (mf)
Ozyptila praticola Almquist, 2007: 490, f. 416a-g (mf)
Ozyptila praticola Grismado, Peralta & Porta, 2020: 53, f. 2a-d (f)
Ozyptila praticola Domènech et al., 2023: 165, f. 10A-B (m)
Ozyptila praticola Fomichev & Koponen, 2024: 1220, f. 30 (f)
References

Almquist, S. (2007). Swedish Araneae, part 2 – families Dictynidae to Salticidae. Insect Systematics & Evolution, Supplement 63(2006): 285-601. [[publ. in 2007 per Jonsson, in litt.]] -- Show included taxa

Azheganova, N. S. (1968). Kratkii opredelitel' paukov (Aranei) lesnoi i lesostepnoi zony SSSR. Akademia Nauk SSSR, Moscow, 149 pp. -- Show included taxa

Becker, L. (1882b). Les arachnides de Belgique, première partie. Annales du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 10: 1-246, pl. 1-27. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.48721 -- Show included taxa

Bellmann, H. (1997). Kosmos-Atlas Spinnentiere Europas. Franckh-Kosmos Stuttgart, 304 pp. -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1846b). Descriptions of some newly discovered species of Araneidea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1) 18(120): 297-303. doi: 10.1080/037454809496588 -- Show included taxa

Blackwall, J. (1861a). A history of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. [Part I]. Ray Society, London, pp. 1-174, pl. 1-12. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.143674 -- Show included taxa

Bösenberg, W. (1902). Die Spinnen Deutschlands. II-IV. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 14(2-4): 97-384, pl. 9-36. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.6508 -- Show included taxa

Brændegaard, J. (1972). Edderkopper eller spindlere II. Danmarks Fauna 80: 1-231. -- Show included taxa

Chyzer, C. & Kulczyński, W. (1891). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus I. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae Budapest, 170 pp., 4 Pls. -- Show included taxa

Dahl, F. (1912b). Über die Fauna des Plagefenn-Gebietes. In: Conwentz, H. (ed.) Das Plagefenn bei Chorin. Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin, pp. 339-638 (Araneae, 575-622). -- Show included taxa

Domènech, M., Méndez, Ó., Espigulé-Pons, J., Carbonell, R. & Pinilla-Rosa, M. (2023). Nuevas citas aracnológicas (Araneae) en Cataluña (NE de la Península Ibérica). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 42: 159-166. -- Show included taxa

Dondale, C. D. & Redner, J. H. (1975a). The genus Ozyptila in North America (Araneida, Thomisidae). Journal of Arachnology 2: 129-181. -- Show included taxa

Dondale, C. D. & Redner, J. H. (1978b). The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 5. The crab spiders of Canada and Alaska, Araneae: Philodromidae and Thomisidae. Research Branch Agriculture Canada Publication 1663: 1-255. -- Show included taxa

Fedotov, D. (1912a). Materialy k faounié paukow Twerskoï gouberny. Berichte der Biologischen Süßwasserstation der Kaiserlichen Naturforschergesellschaft zu St. Petersburg 3: 53-134. -- Show included taxa

Fomichev, A. A. & Koponen, S. (2024). The first data on subnivean activity of spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) in Southwestern Siberia (Russia). Acta Biologica Sibirica 10: 1211-1228. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.13956901 -- Show included taxa

Gertsch, W. J. (1953). The spider genera Xysticus, Coriarachne and Oxyptila (Thomisidae, Misumeninae) in North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 102: 415-482. -- Show included taxa

Grismado, C. J., Peralta, L. & Porta, A. O. (2020). Two new records of exotic spiders for Argentina (Arachnida: Araneae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 79(2): 52-55. doi: 10.25085/rsea.790208 -- Show included taxa

Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1837a). Die Arachniden. Vierter Band. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, pp. 1-108, pl. 119-138 (f. 253-318). doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.43744 [[incl. v. 3: 105-119; for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b]] -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1837b). Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. Heft 1. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, 39 pp., pl. 1-6. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.39561 [[for the detailled publishing date see Nagel & Grieder, 2019: 47]] -- Show included taxa

Lehtinen, P. T. (2002). Generic revision of some thomisids related to Xysticus C.L.Koch, 1835 and Ozyptila Simon, 1864. In: Toft, S. & N. Scharff (eds.) European Arachnology 2000: Proceedings of the 19th European Colloquium of Arachnology. Aarhus University Press, pp. 315-327. -- Show included taxa

Locket, G. H. & Millidge, A. F. (1951). British spiders. Vol. I. Ray Society, London, 310 pp. -- Show included taxa

Mcheidze, T. S. (1997). [Spiders of Georgia: Systematics, Ecology, Zoogeographic Review]. Tbilisi University, 390 pp. (in Georgian). [[English version published by Otto (2014) available here]] -- Show included taxa

Miller, F. (1971). Pavouci-Araneida. Klíč zvířeny ČSSR 4: 51-306. -- Show included taxa

Ohlert, E. (1867). Die Araneiden oder echten Spinnen der Provinz Preussen. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 172 pp. -- Show included taxa

Palmgren, P. (1950). Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands und Ostfennoskandiens. III. Xysticidae und Philodromidae. Acta Zoologica Fennica 62: 1-43. -- Show included taxa

Paquin, P. & Dupérré, N. (2003). Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Supplement 11: 1-251. -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1985). The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1: Atypidae to Theridiosomatidae. Harley Books Colchester, England, 229 pp. -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1995). Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins London, 383 pp. -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1998). Spinnengids. Tirion Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp. -- 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

Spassky, S. A. (1925). [An identification book of spiders of Don area]. Znanie Press Novocherkassk, 62 pp. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1872a). Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. Part III. C. J. Lundström, Uppsala, pp. 229-374. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.69282 -- Show included taxa

Tullgren, A. (1944). Svensk Spindelfauna. 3. Araneae (Salticidae, Thomisidae, Philodromidae och Eusparassidae). Entomologiska Föreningen Stockholm, 138 pp., pl. 1-18. -- Show included taxa

Utochkin, A. S. (1960c). Materialy k faune paukov roda Oxyptila Sim. v SSSR. Uchenye Zapiski Permskogo Ordena Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta Imeni A. M. Gor’kogo 13: 47-61. -- Show included taxa

Vilbaste, A. (1969). Eesti Ämblikud I. Krabiämbliklased (Xysticidae), Jooksikämbliklased (Philodromidae) ja Hüpikämbliklased (Salticidae). Zooloogia ja Botaanika Instituut Tallinn, pp. 1-224. -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2024-10-24 New taxonomic reference entry Fomichev & Koponen, 2024
2023-07-05 New taxonomic reference entry Domènech et al., 2023
2020-06-30 New taxonomic reference entry Grismado, Peralta & Porta, 2020
2020-06-30 Species distribution update Grismado, Peralta & Porta, 2020 Old value
2015-08-04 New taxonomic reference entry Palmgren, 1950

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