Phrynarachne decipiens (Forbes, 1884)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030971

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Described:

Distribution: India, Laos, Malaysia (peninsula), Indonesia (Sumatra, Java)

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Taxonomic References
Thomisus decipiens Forbes, 1884: 586, pl. 51 (Df) Original description
Ornithoscatoides decipiens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1884a: 199, pl. 15, f. 1 (f)
Phrynarachne decipiens Thorell, 1890b: 63
Phrynarachne decipiens Workman, 1896: 92, pl. 92 (f)
Thomisus decipiens Jacobson, 1921: 186, pl. 12, f. 1-4 (f)
Phrynarachne decipiens Das et al., 2024: 63, f. 1-10 (f)
Phrynarachne decipiens Omelko, 2025: 64, f. 20-25, 27 (f)
References

Das, S., Kalita, J., Mahanta, N., Brahma, D. & Basumatary, P. (2024). New record of Phrynarachne decipiens (Forbes 1884) (Araneae: Thomisidae) from India. Acta Arachnologica 73(1): 63-66. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.73.63 -- Show included taxa

Forbes, H. O. (1884). On the habits of Thomisus decipiens, a spider from Sumatra. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 51(4, 1883): 586-588, pl. 51. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1883.tb06663.x -- Show included taxa

Jacobson, E. (1921). Thomisus decipiens Forbes, a spider supposed to imitate the excrement of birds. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 64: 186-190, pl. 12. -- Show included taxa

Omelko, M. M. (2025). New species and new records of Phrynarachne crab spiders (Araneae, Thomisidae) from Southeast Asia. ZooKeys 1257: 55-70. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1257.165973 -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1884a). On two new genera of spiders. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 52(2): 196-205, pl. 40. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1884.tb02819.x -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1890b). Aracnidi di Nias e di Sumatra raccolti nel 1886 dal Sig. E. Modigliani. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 30: 5-106. -- Show included taxa

Workman, T. (1896). Malaysian spiders. Published by the author, Belfast, UK, pp. 25-104. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.101972 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-10-24 New taxonomic reference entry Omelko, 2025
2025-10-24 Species distribution update Omelko, 2025 Old value
2024-08-29 New taxonomic reference entry Das et al., 2024
2024-08-29 Species distribution update Das et al., 2024 Old value
2016-11-11 Species updated Old value Error corrected

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