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Genus: Thomisus Walckenaer, 1805 | Family: Thomisidae Sundevall, 1833

Thomisus australis Comellini, 1957

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031414

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Described:

Distribution: DR Congo, Uganda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini

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Holotype: Kwazulu-Natal Museum (NMSA), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa f (6968) of Thomisus drakensbergensis - (Comellini, 1959)
Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 2f (ARTO-0027858) of Thomisus drakensbergensis - (Comellini, 1959)
Holotype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany f (A0002381) of Thomisus mossambicus weidneri - (Comellini, 1957)
Paratype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany 1f (A0002382) of Thomisus mossambicus weidneri - (Comellini, 1957)
Holotype: Kwazulu-Natal Museum (NMSA), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa m (5689) - (Comellini, 1957)
Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 1m (ARTO-0027855) - (Comellini, 1957)
Holotype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland f (ARTO-0027866) of Thomisus mossambicus - (Comellini, 1957)
Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland f (ARTO-0027867) of Thomisus mossambicus weidneri - (Comellini, 1957)

Taxonomic References

Thomisus australis Comellini, 1957: 6, f. 9-10 (Dm) Original description

Thomisus mossambicus Comellini, 1957: 20, f. 31-32 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063143]

Thomisus mossambicus weidneri Comellini, 1957: 20, f. 33 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063144]

Thomisus australis Comellini, 1959: 112, f. 1-3 (Df)

Thomisus drakensbergensis Comellini, 1959: 114, f. 6-8 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063142]

Thomisus australis Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1983: 30, f. 17a-e (mf, S of Thomisus drakensbergensis, T. mossambicus and T. mossambicus weidneri)

Thomisus australis Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1988: 435, f. 6-7 (mf)

Thomisus australis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020w: 40, 40: 5 f., 41: 2 f. (mf)

Thomisus australis Dippenaar-Schoeman & Uys, 2025e: 20, f. 1-16 (mf)

References

Comellini, A. (1957). Notes sur les Thomisidae d'Afrique. 2. - Le genre Thomisus. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 55(1-2): 1-32. -- Show included taxa

Comellini, A. (1959). Notes sur les Thomisidae d'Afrique 3.-Complement du genre Thomisus. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 60: 110-119. -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (1983). The spider genera Misumena, Misumenops, Runcinia and Thomisus (Araneae: Thomisidae) of southern Africa. Entomology Memoir, Department of Agriculture Republic of South Africa 55: 1-66. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.17452387 -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (1988). An annotated checklist of the crab-spiders of Malawi (Araneae: Thomisidae). I. The genera Misumenops, Runcinia and Thomisus, with a description of a new species. Revue Zoologique Africaine 102: 429-438. -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2020w). The Thomisidae of South Africa. Part 3 Sm-T. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 79 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7513278 -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. & Uys, W. (2025e). The red patch crab spider Thomisus australis Comellini, 1957 from South Africa (Araneae: Thomisidae). SANSA Newsletter 56: 20-23. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18051863 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2026-01-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman & Uys, 2025e
2026-01-09	Species distribution update	Dippenaar-Schoeman & Uys, 2025e	Old value
2023-01-28	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020w