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Genus: Xysticus C. L. Koch, 1835 | Family: Thomisidae Sundevall, 1833

Xysticus nubilus Simon, 1875

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032006

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Described:

Distribution: Macaronesia, Mediterranean, Georgia

External Resources*: araneae - Spiders of Europe | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France -

Taxonomic References

Xysticus comptulus Simon, 1873c: 333, pl. 10, f. 3-4 (f; misidentified per Dalmas, 1922: 89)

Xysticus nubilus Simon, 1875a: 166 (Df; m misidentified per Simon, 1932: 875) Original description

Xysticus comptulus Simon, 1875a: 177 (f; misidentified per Dalmas, 1922: 89)

Xysticus baleatus Simon, 1875a: 178 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064136]

Xysticus insulanus Thorell, 1875c: 132 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064137]

Xysticus hamatus Thorell, 1875c: 133 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064138]

Xysticus insulanus Simon, 1883: 264, pl. 8, f. 1 (m; f f. 2 misidentified per Dalmas, 1922: 89)

Xysticus insulanus Kulczyński, 1899: 406, pl. 8, f. 85-86 (mf)

Xysticus nubilus Dalmas, 1922: 89 (S of Xysticus baleatus, X. hamatus and X. insulanus)

Xysticus nubilus Simon, 1932: 814, 825, 875, f. 1213, 1236 (mf)

Xysticus nubilus Barrientos & Febrer, 2017: 14, f. 8a-c (mf)

Xysticus nubilus Lecigne, 2017: 31, f. 7A-D, 16F-G, 17J-K (f)

Xysticus nubilus Breitling, 2018: 9, f. 2Q (m)

Xysticus nubilus Martín & Adame, 2024: 155, f. 11A-B (m)

Xysticus nubilus Lecigne, Moutaouakil & Lips, 2025: 149, f. 94K-L (m)

Xysticus nubilus Cendrero et al., 2025: 121, f. 8 (m)

References

Barrientos, J. A. & Febrer, B. (2017). Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). Nuevos datos. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 8-24. -- Show included taxa

Breitling, R. (2018). Eric Duffey's spider collection in the Manchester Museum – an update. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 141: 5-9. -- Show included taxa

Cendrero, J., Narro-Martín, A. J., Mora-Rubio, C. & Parejo-Pulido, D. (2025). Nuevas aportaciones al conocimiento de las arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de la provincia de Badajoz (Extremadura, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 46: 117-122. [[publ. end of July]] -- Show included taxa

Dalmas, R. de (1922). Catalogue des araignées récoltées par le Marquis G. Doria dans l'ile Giglio (Archipel toscan). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 50: 79-96. -- Show included taxa

Kulczyński, W. (1899). Arachnoidea opera Rev. E. Schmitz collecta in insulis Maderianis et in insulis Selvages dictis. Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzen Wydzialu Matematyczno Przyrodniczego Akademji Umiejetnosci, Krakow 36: 319-461, pl. 6-9. -- Show included taxa

Lecigne, S. (2017). Contribution a la connaissance de l’araneofaune (Araneae) de l’Algarve (Portugal). Description de Theridion bernardi n.sp. (Araneae: Theridiidae) et redécouverte d’Ozyptila perplexa Simon, 1875 (Araneae: Thomisidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 25-48. -- Show included taxa

Lecigne, S., Moutaouakil, S. & Lips, J. (2025). Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – second note. On new species and new records from caves and miscellaneous terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 40(1, supplement): 1-184. -- Show included taxa

Martín, D. F. & Adame, F. R. (2024). Nuevas adiciones a la fauna aracnológica de Andalucía. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 45: 150-166. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1873c). Etudes arachnologiques. 2e Mémoire. II. Description de quelques espèces nouvelles pour la faun européenne. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (5) 3: 327-334. -- 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. (1883). Études arachnologiques. 14e Mémoire. XXI. Matériaux pour servir à la faune arachnologique des îles de l'Océan Atlantique (Açores, Madère, Salvages, Canaries, Cap Vert, Sainte-Hélène et Bermudes). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 3: 259-314. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1932). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 4e partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 773-978. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1875c). Descriptions of several European and North African spiders. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 13(5): 1-204. -- 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
2025-07-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Cendrero et al., 2025
2025-04-08	New taxonomic reference entry	Lecigne, Moutaouakil & Lips, 2025
2024-12-27	New taxonomic reference entry	Martín & Adame, 2024
2018-07-28	Species distribution update	Mikhailov, 2013b	Old value
2018-04-14	New taxonomic reference entry	Breitling, 2018
2018-01-01	New taxonomic reference entry	Lecigne, 2017
2017-12-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Barrientos & Febrer, 2017
2014-08-11	Species distribution update		Old value