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

Thomisus bidentatus Kulczyński, 1901

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031418

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Described:

Distribution: Guinea, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen

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Taxonomic References

Thomisus bidentatus Kulczyński, 1901a: 3, 33, pl. 2, f. 32-34 (Dmf) Original description

Thomisus bidentatus Levy, 1973: 129, f. 47-50 (mf)

Thomisus bidentatus Levy, 1985b: 41, f. 51-54 (mf)

Thomisus bidentatus Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1989c: 22, f. 1 (m)

Thomisus bidentatus Dippenaar-Schoeman & Van Harten, 2007: 173, f. 7-9 (mf)

Thomisus bidentatus El-Hennawy, 2025c: 119, f. 1-5 (m)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (1989c). An annotated check list of crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae) of Saudi Arabia. Fauna Saudi Arabia 10: 20-30. -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. & Harten, A. van (2007). Crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae) from mainland Yemen and the Socotra Archipelago: Part 1. The genus Thomisus Walckenaer, 1805. Fauna of Arabia 23: 169-188. -- Show included taxa

El-Hennawy, H. K. (2025c). Thomisus bidentatus Kulczyński, 1901 in Jordan (Araneae: Thomisidae), with updated list of the known records of spiders from Jordan. Serket 21(1): 118-122. -- Show included taxa

Kulczyński, W. (1901a). Arachnoidea in Colonia Erythraea a Dre K. M. Levander collecta. Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzen Wydzialu Matematyczno Przyrodniczego Akademji Umiejetnosci, Krakow 41: 1-64. -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (1973). Crab-spiders of six genera from Israel (Araneae: Thomisidae). Israel Journal of Zoology 22: 107-141. -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (1985b). Araneae: Thomisidae. In: Fauna Palaestina, Arachnida II. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Jerusalem, 115 pp. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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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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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-11-19	New taxonomic reference entry	El-Hennawy, 2025c
2025-11-19	Species distribution update	El-Hennawy, 2025c	Old value