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

Thomisus unidentatus Dippenaar-Schoeman & van Harten, 2007

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041215

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Described:

Distribution: Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, India

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Holotype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa m (2003/1573) - (Marais et al., 2013)
Paratype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa mm ff (2002/1026-1047, 1049, 2003/1572-1574, 2004/581, 593) - (Marais et al., 2013)

Taxonomic References

Thomisus unidentatus Dippenaar-Schoeman & Van Harten, 2007: 180, f. 27-29 (Dmf) Original description

Thomisus unidentatus Seyyar, Demir & Najim, 2016: 221, f. 2a-f (mf)

Thomisus unidentatus Kiany et al., 2017: 4, f. 8a-e (mf)

Thomisus unidentatus Diksha et al., 2018: 97, f. 1-8 (m)

Thomisus unidentatus Jaffry, Butt & Zahra, 2025: 2085, f. 10A-F (m)

Thomisus unidentatus Parmar et al., 2025b: 98, f. 1a-b, 2a-g (m)

References

Diksha, Khan, R. A., Sultana, A. & Das, S. K. (2018). A new spider record of genus Thomisus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Thomisidae) from India. Serket 16(2): 96-99. -- 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

Jaffry, K. H., Butt, A. & Zahra, K. (2025). A new species of Prochora Simon, 1886 (Araneae: Miturgidae) and some new records of superfamily Lycosoidea (Araneae) from Margalla Hills National Park, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 57(5): 2079-2087. doi: 10.17582/journal.pjz/20220525050526 -- Show included taxa

Kiany, N., Sadeghi, S., Kiany, M., Zamani, A. & Ostovani, S. (2017). Additions to the crab spider fauna of Iran (Araneae: Thomisidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 53: 1-8. doi: 10.5431/aramit5301 -- Show included taxa

Parmar, S. I., Dudiya, D. D., Gori, S. H. & Pandya, P. J. (2025b). New distribution record of the species Thomisus unidentatus Dippenaar-Schoeman & van Harten, 2007 (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Western India. Serket 21(1): 97-101. -- Show included taxa

Seyyar, O., Demir, H. & Najim, S. A. (2016). A new spider record of the genus Thomisus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Iraq. Biological Diversity and Conservation 9(2): 221-223. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2025-11-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Parmar et al., 2025b
2025-07-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Jaffry, Butt & Zahra, 2025
2025-07-22	Species distribution update	Jaffry, Butt & Zahra, 2025	Old value
2018-11-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Diksha et al., 2018
2018-11-05	Species distribution update	Diksha et al., 2018	Old value
2017-01-28	New taxonomic reference entry	Kiany et al., 2017
2017-01-28	Species distribution update	Kiany et al., 2017	Old value
2016-12-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Seyyar, Demir & Najim, 2016
2016-12-06	Species distribution update	Seyyar, Demir & Najim, 2016	Old value