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Genus: Bassaniodes Pocock, 1903 | Family: Thomisidae Sundevall, 1833

Bassaniodes graecus (C. L. Koch, 1837)

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Described:

Distribution: Spain, Italy, Balkans, Greece, Ukraine, Russia (Europe), Turkey, Israel, Iraq

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Taxonomic References

Xysticus graecus C. L. Koch, 1837a: 65, f. 291 (Df) Original description

Xysticus graecus C. L. Koch, 1845: 68 (f; m misidentified and probably S of Xysticus cristatus per per Simon, 1885c: 319)

Thomisus graecus Doleschall, 1852: 632

Oxyptila bufo Simon, 1875a: 220 (m; misidentified per Simon, 1885c: 319)

Oxyptila albimana Simon, 1875a: 218 (m; misidentified per Simon, 1932: 881)

Xysticus graecus Simon, 1885c: 319 (mf)

Xysticus graecus Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1891: 96, pl. 3, f. 19 (mf)

Proxysticus graecus Bonnet, 1958: 3792

Xysticus graecus Tystshenko, 1971: 122, f. 291 (f)

Xysticus graecus Levy, 1976: 29, f. 53-54 (f)

Xysticus graecus Levy, 1985b: 100, f. 158-159 (f)

Psammitis graecus Wunderlich, 1995F: 762, f. 46-49 (mf)

Bassaniodes graecus Breitling, 2019a: 203 (T from Xysticus)

Bassaniodes graecus Hernández-Corral, Barrientos & García-Teba, 2025: 61, f. 13A-B (m)

References

Bonnet, P. (1958). Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systématique des araignées (Étude par ordre alphabétique) (4me partie: N-S). Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 3027-4230. -- Show included taxa

Breitling, R. (2019a). A barcode-based phylogenetic scaffold for Xysticus and its relatives (Araneae: Thomisidae: Coriarachnini). Ecologica Montenegrina 20: 198-206. doi: 10.37828/em.2019.20.16 -- Show included taxa

Chyzer, C. & Kulczyński, W. (1891). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus I. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae Budapest, 170 pp., 4 Pls. -- Show included taxa

Doleschall, L. (1852). Systematisches Verzeichniss der im Kaiserthum Österreich vorkommenden Spinnen. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, Wien 9: 622-651. [[sub 'Doleschal']] -- Show included taxa

Hernández-Corral, J., Barrientos, J. A. & García-Teba, J. P. (2025). Nuevos datos sobre las arañas (Arachnida: Araneae) del Parc Natural del Carrascal de la Font Roja (Alicante, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 46: 51-75. [[publ. end of July]] -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1837a). Die Arachniden. Vierter Band. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, pp. 1-108, pl. 119-138 (f. 253-318). doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.43744 [[incl. v. 3: 105-119; for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b]] -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1845). Die Arachniden. Zwölfter Band. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, pp. 1-166, pl. 397-432 (f. 960-1077). doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.43744 [[for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b]] -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (1976). The spider genus Xysticus (Araneae: Thomisidae) in Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 25: 1-37. -- 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

Simon, E. (1875a). Les Arachnides de France. Tome seconde. Contenant les familles des Urocteidae, Agelenidae, Thomisidae et Sparassidae. Roret, Paris, 360 pp., pl. 4-8. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1885c). Études arachnologiques. 16e Mémoire. XXIII. Matériaux pour servir à la faune des arachnides de la Grèce. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 4(4, 1884): 305-356. [[published May 13, 1885]] -- Show included taxa

Tystshenko, V. P. (1971). Opredelitel' paukov evropejskoj chasti SSSR. Leningrad, 281 pp. -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1995F). Zur Kenntnis west-paläarktischer Arten der Gattungen Psammitis Menge 1875, Xysticus C. L. Koch 1835 und Ozyptila Simon 1864 (Arachnida: Araneae: Thomisidae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 4(1994): 749-774. [[publ. in Dec. 1995]] -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-07-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Hernández-Corral, Barrientos & García-Teba, 2025
2025-07-26	Species distribution update	Hernández-Corral, Barrientos & García-Teba, 2025	Old value
2021-04-08	Species distribution update	Pantini & Mazzoleni, 2018	Old value
2019-04-18	New taxonomic reference entry	Breitling, 2019a
2019-04-18	Species transferred to new genus	Breitling, 2019a		Species transferred from Xysticus to Bassaniodes
2018-09-30	Species distribution update	Fomichev, Marusik & Koponen, 2018	Old value