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Genus: Ozyptila Simon, 1864 | Family: Thomisidae Sundevall, 1833

Ozyptila westringi (Thorell, 1873)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030919

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Described:

Distribution: Sweden, Netherlands, Germany

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Taxonomic References

Thomisus brevipes Westring, 1851: 50 (m; misidentified per Thorell, 1873: 572)

Xysticus westringii Thorell, 1873: 572 (Dm) Original description

Ozyptila westringi Dahl, 1883: 74 (mf)

Ozyptila westringi Wunderlich & Schultz, 1995: 329, f. 1-5 (mf, removed from S of Ozyptila trux, rejecting Simon, 1875a: 234)

Ozyptila westringi Roberts, 1998: 179, f. (mf)

Ozyptila westringi Almquist, 2007: 494, f. 419a-b (m)

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

Dahl, F. (1883). Analytische Bearbeitung der Spinnen Norddeutschlands mit einer anatomisch-biologischen Einleitung. Schriften des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für Schleswig-Holstein 5: 13-88. -- Show included taxa

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

Thorell, T. (1873). Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. Part IV. C. J. Lundström, Uppsala, pp. 375-645. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.69282 -- Show included taxa

Westring, N. (1851). Förteckning öfver de till närvarande tid Kände, i Sverige förekommande Spindlarter, utgörande ett antal af 253, deraf 132 äro nya för svenska Faunan. Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps och Vitterhets Samhälles Handlingar 2: 25-62. -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. & Schultz, W. (1995). Ozyptila westringi (Thorell 1873), eine in Deutschland seltene Krabbenspinnenart (Arachnida: Araneae: Thomisidae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 4(1994): 329-333. [[publ. in Dec. 1995]] -- Show included taxa

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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

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